The Problem: There are some series that go together in a Universe & which must be watched together or things will either not make sense or will be spoiled. Some of the biggest Examples: The Arrowverse Marvel TV/Cinematic Universe But there are others, those ones are just the most annoying. I’m s…

This smart playlist was generated from the dates of “originally aired”. It shrinks automatically as you watch the episodes. [grafik] [image] Watch crossover episodes of several series in-order Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Unfortunately Plex doesn’t track your progress through …

That’s a nice workaround, thanks for sharing, but I still think it would be nice if it could be treated like a multi-series series. I’ll give the Smart Playlist a try, it’s definitely better than what I tried before, but say I didn’t realize Supergirl was in the Arrowverse when I created it, then I …

[image] LostOnTheLine: ut say I didn’t realize Supergirl was in the Arrowverse when I created it, then I wanted to add it. All the Supergirl episodes would be at the bottom, instead of updating to the series. No, they wouldn’t. The playlist is automatically sorted by “air date”. The Supergirl…

[image] OttoKerner: w Ah. I’ll have to check it out. From my experience I’ve never successfully resorted a playlist after it was created. It’s been a few years since I tried, but I’ll try it again, see if it works

That may be because they weren’t editable in the beginning. But now they have the command “Edit Filters” on them, which also allows you to re-set the sorting order.

[image] OttoKerner: allows you to re-set the sorting order. So I’d have to reset it if I added it after the fact? That makes more sense

No. If you have set it to “aired date (ascending)” right from the start, there is no need to reset it.

[image] OttoKerner: there is no need to reset it Wow, that’s definitely different than it was at the beginning of “The Great Quarantine” because I tried a few different ways when I had lots of extra time & nothing worked

That was actually always the case with smart playlists. They retain the sort order which was defined when they are created. If later some additional media appear in the library, which fit the filter arguments, then they are automatically integrated – in the pre-defined order.

So I just tested making it a Smart Collection & I have my collection of the Arrowverse Shows as “DC” I followed the instructions except using Smart Collection instead of Playlist & not having it be only unplayed & it made a Collection that has the episodes in order… awesome… & if you hit Play it wil…

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