I wanted to start a new topic for this as it came up on someone else’s and I don’t want to hijack it.
The basic issue is that you can’t add title from this new player into collections, you can’t change the rating and you can’t turn it on or off on a per user basis with managed users. So what do you do when you have a kid that you want to allow to watch an “unrated” documentary" but not watch an “unrated” movie for adults? It seems you can ONLY either enable or disable this feature for ALL managed users globally. That means my wife doesn’t get this feature because I have to leave it disabled for my 9 year old so he doesn’t watch some old horror flick.
Riffing off the other thread:
This is useless if you pick and choose what content you want for your 9 year old to watch. Something rated G with Mickey Mouse in it is not the same some documentary about the Holocaust that is also rated G, or “unrated”. Here’s a classic horror movie that is unrated and would slip through my filters because I can’t “tag” them, add them to a collection or manually change the rating.
What I currently do is use tagging, colllections as well as sometimes manually changing the rating of a title in my library to control what he sees. However, because I can’t manually change the ratings of Plex streaming content anyway, that strategy is moot.
Assuming I could affect the rating of individual items though, I would have to go through EVERY title in the entire Plex offering…perpetually…to make it so my son can’t see it if I enable this library. That’s certainly not practical.
Is there a solution…or is one in the works? The easiest thing would be to simply be able to control access to the new Plex content the same way we control any other library. You just use a checkmark in the user library access settings. Super easy! I could give access to my wife, but keep my son out of it.
