Ok not sure if I put this in the right spot to begin with so sorry if it’s not. I have a Ubuntu ran server and am slightly confused about smart collections I might just be miss understanding how the work. I made one for the arrowverse that has all of the shows in episode order and it looks great. …

Concur as a bandaid solution, I have raised these quirks/bugs with smart collections including their playback behavior some of which have been acknowledged but with no fix. Ideally, a smart collection should be a playlist on steroids, meaning their playback behavior etc should be similar.

Pour it on here… [image] [BUG] Resume behavior for episodes in smart collections - Android Plex Players Plex Android TV: 8.23.1.28053 I noticed that if you have a partially played episode in a smart collection of episodes, resuming playback from the main smart collectio…

That’s exactly what I was expecting it to be a playlist that was on steroids! Like it’s a solid feature it just needs a little help to handle the way that it plays the videos better and puts videos on deck and the continue watching could be just the collection instead of every season in the collecti…

The problem I have with the playlist unless I’m missing a setting is it’s not shared. So everyone has to make their own playlist to watch this and it’s not in the tv shows tab in order all nice and neat you have to go to the playlist tab and in the player app (at least on the Apple TV) you can’t mak…

You can grant access to other users for playlists, solution works but isn’t elegant as smart collections.

Smart collection confusion

Plex Media Server

OttoKerner August 9, 2022, 9:43am 2

Make a playlist, not a collection. Watch crossover episodes of several series in-order

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Smart collection confusion

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