I’m really surprised at your defense of this and calling us users of this method “abusers” of the feature. There is just no way to re-add a show to the continue watching hub without changing the flag from watched to unwatched. There is no indication either within the software or the documentation that doing so will delete user data.
Anyhow, sounds like a solution is in the works so will see how that works out when it arrives.
This is the exact reason for a new “I want to watch again” feature separate from the watched/unwatched flag.
Wow, I obviously misunderstood the change log entry, because I thought it means “entries that are marked as played will not generate a history entry when they are played again”.
That would have been awful, I’m glad thats not the case.
It could be very easy, why so complicated and confusing:
Watched is watched
Unwatched is unwatched - marking unwatched deletes history
If you watch an episode of a show already marked as watched, the next episode of that show should be presented in the continue watching list. That’s all that’s needed IMHO. Even if jumping in the middle of an already watched show should present the next episode in the continue watching list. Users can finetune the two entryfields in the settings to change the behaviour of the continue watching list “weeks to show”, “entries in list”.
This is counter-intuitive. ’unwatched‘ is generally used for incorrectly ’watched‘ for me.So…Maybe we need a ‘re-appreciate’ button,Instead of ’unwatched‘ button.
sorry, what is stored at plex.inc? I was sure plex was only a local thing up to now.
This is what I am seeing and I hope it changes.
The only entries being added to history are watched completely on a client.
Marking via API or Web UI are not adding to history or the database.
This seems to be the intended behavior after this change and I find it useful that way.
Always bothered me, that marking as watched created bogus history entries.
As I wrote above, I misunderstood the description first, but luckily its not the way I thought initially.
I understand the rewatch vs unwatch debate but not adding any history if manually watched will cause more issues.
For example, I only discovered this after I watched a season of except one episode never got marked played when watched. Then after manually marking it watched, it became the only episode without a history.
The behavior must change then please add an option in the settings so the owner can determine in which way they want. Or a show/hide flag in the database table so if someone if comfortable they can easily flip it if they desire
BTW, I thought I had asked this already but appears I didn’t.
With this new change should a Movie which is manually marked as watched, without actually being watched still be added to the Recently Played row on the recommended tab ?
Yes. This hub is looking at the watch state and not the watch history of items. The logic used in that hub has not changed.
Can’t you throw it in your Watchlist? Then use the Watchlist as the “I am going to see this (again)”. It won’t impact Played/not by just being in the watchlist.
Now that this has moved out of Beta is there way to avoid this. It greatly messes up how I use Plex.
I use the API to mark items as watched when watched outside of Plex and have a scripts to correct the watch time. In addition, the scripts remove “invalid” views which are what I believe you are trying to solve.
With this change, there is no history record so no time is updated. And all items are automatically marked as unwatched since there is no history
Are the view history still created in the database? Maybe an additional setting, or parameter on the call.
Reading this info from another thread:
This is really going to cause problems with my flow because I generally play my content via Infuse after downloading it and then just mark it as watched once it’s done.
With the new release, the next episode will never show up in my Continue Watching because there’s no Watch History for the older episodes.
Is there any API to create Watch History that we can ask the Infuse devs to call after marking an episode as watched?
I guess this will also greatly reduce the usefulness of the Trakt plugin for TV shows since it can’t add watch history, only the watch state.
This is causing all kind of problems in all kinds of use cases. There are lots of reasons why you mark some episode or movie as watched.
Please make the “History Change” configurable on account level.
@drzoidberg33 Is it intentional that marking an entire show or season as watched still adds to the history? Marking a single episode as watched doesn’t add to the history as expected.
Yeah, I’m not happy about this either. Most of my Plex use is as a database, where I will just play my content directly from the filesystem - due to better player software - or even the physical media, and mark it as watched in Plex afterwards.
With this change, it seems I will be forced into only using the Plex player if I want to keep my play history, which is not how software should work, in my opinion (no forcing the user please, give options).
While not ideal you can just watch as you have always and then when you want to register it on plex, start watching the item in plex and fast forward to the end. Plex registers a play once 90% of an item is watched/passed so using this method you can get a play registered manually.
Again, not ideal and I personally don’t like this change myself but do certainly understand why plex is making it.
