Again, I’m not arguing against privacy.
My only issue is with the validity of this statement.
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Fair enough. I will adjust the wording.
Seems to me they’ve outlined the four data points they’re collecting. User ID, Media ID, Rating, and Watch Status. There are assurances in this conversation that this is all they’re collecting for this feature’s purpose.
Sure, other data points exist that could be tied together, but it also seems that would require a manual process to start connecting those dots.
I still feel pretty safe given all the outlined current procedures. I understand the possible concern, but how likely is that to actually happen? A plane may fall on my house too… but I’m also not worried about that.
EDIT: If they really wanted to “get you,” it would likely be far easier to gather your metadata search results and get the whole picture.
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The goal of such an option would be to prevent it from being possible at all, since then there’s no possibility for concern, no matter how remote. Reducing the amount of private data being collected doesn’t harm anyone, especially since that’s how it worked for all users up until this announcement.
I’d suggest to create a dedicated feature request for that. I done that when discovery was rolled out which worked well and allows folks to vote. Otherwise it’ll get lost in this discussion thread…
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What is shown to you as possible “Connected Accounts” when you go to Sign In | Plex ?
These are account-level settings as well.
If one of your shared users is connecting his last.fm account there, Plex will scrobble to last.fm every music track he is playing from your server.
And this has already been possible for several years.
That may be, but this update seems to include Movies and TV, which is an expansion from the existing status quo of private server playback history, is it not? I cannot see any mention of any music yet in this sub-discussion (I guess because this feature doesn’t cover that?), so thank you for bringing that up. It would absolutely be good to have a server-side setting for that kind of sharing as well, since that has similar possible concerns for a server operator who has a Music library.
I saw it. It was a quick one-off answer to a quick question about plexamp and music:
I think with music not being a one-and-done like movies/shows, there’s not much of a point to mark music as “played”. Heck, I don’t know if music even uses/has that “played” flag at all.
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At the risk of getting off topic I’ll say that I recently started using plex for music and noticed plexamp syncs the recent played with the cloud. Its probably been doing that for years and does it by default.
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Ah right, it does keep track of the items last played, but it seems to me by just looking at the server’s list of media a user accessed. There is no “Mark as Played” buttons for music like there is for media, since a song’s played status isn’t too important to maintain like it is for Movies/Shows.
Even if they did start supporting an orange triangle on “unplayed” music in your library, I doubt its presence or absence would be too important to sync its state across all possible servers you have access to. That is what this Sync feature is for, after all. It recognizes that you want to keep track of where you are in a series, or whether a movie has been watched or not.
(Thinking about it, this is actually all a feature that is REALY necessary for audiobooks, which Plex does not currently support well. If Plex only allowed you to treat audiobooks as if they were movies (“Continue Listening” for in-progress files) or shows (“Up Next” for multi-file audiobooks), we’d mostly have the support that we need to use Plex for audiobooks.)
Recent plays is different to play history and is a feature of plexamp only from what I understand. The sync to cloud is an advanced setting in plexamp and not the other clients.
Anyhow, different discussion really over this new feature.
BTW… I’m not advocating that the recent plays sync to cloud in plexamp is a issue for me, just stating its there for music.
It seems a bit sketchy with TV shows.
(yes I am using the hosted plex web app, not the local one, and both servers are running the latest (beta) pms)
If I watched something on 1 server, then navigate to the show, all appears correct. The Show and Season posters both appear correct (no unplayed episode count).
But if I go to another Server and browse to the Same show, then the Show poster still shows 5 unplayed episodes whereas the Season Poster shows no unplayed epsiodes.
If I refresh the metadata for the Show, then the unplayed count will disappear from the show poster.
How long do you wait? From the article:
- If you have access to more than one Plex Media Server and make a change on one server, it could take up to 30 minutes for the change to be reflected in a library on a different personal server, once it syncs the information from the online Plex account.
I watched the episodes yesterday, and checked on the other server today.
So well over 30 minutes.
And the fact that the season poster and the episodes are correctly marked as played on the 2nd server. It is only the show poster that indicates a number of unplayed episodes.
I’m still waiting for my content to sync with my friends server since launch. He’s not as militant about keeping up with things as I am, so my assumption is that he’s either not converted his libraries to the new agents, or he hasn’t updated his metadata in a while.
Adding to the poster before I suspect a similar problem:
I have 2 PLEX servers installed on my Computer and my NAS with 2 identical PLEX libraries (= my backup).
When I now watch an episode which is on Deck on Server A, the On Deck item moves to the next episode as it shoud.
On Server B the episode I just watched also gets marked as watched but “Dn Deck” still shows the old episode which has already been watched.
So it seems that “On Deck” does not really see the change in the watched status if it gets changed server-side so to speak
There is no On Deck anymore so hoping you mean Continue Watching. Is this even if you leave the home screen or library’s Recommended tab and come back?
Sorry yes, I mean “Continue Watching”
Yes, I can move around all I want and the episode in “Continue Watching” does not change. I watched this 2 hours ago, closed the web-browser in between and so on.
For instance I watched King of Queens S02E09 and S02E10 on Server A which now shows S02E11 in “Continue Watching”
Server B still shows S02E09 in “Continue Watching”. When I click on the season the watch status is correct and S02E09 and S02E10 are marked as watched.
When I now manually unwatch and watch Episode S02E10, “Continue Watching” moves on to S02E11 as it should
Haven’t been able to get this to work yet but have other side effects:
- Items get stuck in continue watching even after being watched, or manually marking unplayed/played again.
- IOS devices - error on playback - Couldn’t retrieve playback queue for this item
Disabling watch state sync seems to resolve. But when enabled, watching on one server doesn’t seem to sync to other, even though both are on latest beta/agents/etc.
