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Using app.plex.tv to manage my server. I’ve successfully added several TV shows to the watchlist. Now I’m trying to add another one, and the “Add to Watchlist” menu item is nowhere to be found. Did it get moved? Was it removed?
It’s in the same place at the top of the contextual menu. Make sure you are trying to add the show as a whole, not individual seasons or episodes
Yeah, whole shows or movies . This will not work with other things like Concerts, Documentaries, etc should you have made separate libraries as I did.
I’ve tried every level, add to watchlist is not appearing. Can you post a screen shot so I can see where you’re pointing? Like I said, I’ve previously added several series, not I can’t. I can see them, but I can’t add any more.
I assume this is the contextual menu you’re talking about (the three dots to the right of “play”)? At the series level, not season or episode…(and it’s not in the “Add to” section either, that’s for collections. Add to Watchlist is not there anymore
Weird, turns out the watchlist flag is actually right next to the Play button (see picture). All of the series currently in my watchlist show the flag and it’s filled in. Digging around my library I found a handful of series that had the watchlist toggle, but the vast majority do not. The trend is that series’ with only one season do not show the watchlist flag (There was once exception to this) and those with more than one season do (some exceptions).
The flag is either content related or this is a bug. (Not including documentaries, although I don’t see why they should be excluded if they are serialized like TV shows)
Refresh the metadata for any show that isn’t showing the add to watchlist feature
Shows matched with an old agent won’t give you the option
They aren’t.
Not sure what he’s talking about
Documentaries and docuseries work fine like any other show.
Inspect the Plex media info XML of one episode.
Look at the first guid="... property. (all lowercase letters!)
If it starts with guid="plex:// then “add to watchlist” should be available.
If it has different content, like
guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb:// or
guid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb:// or
guid="local:// or
guid="com.plexapp.agents.none:// or
guid="tv.plex.agents.none://
then it is not possible to add it to the Watchlist.
I’ve noticed that if you are in a season or episode you will not see add to watchlist. You have to be on the show page. That’s one of my beefs - I’d like to add to watchlist for a season or even an episode. Not sure why I am forced to do it at a show level.
WRT documentaries it seems hit and miss. Some have it, some don’t. For example:
Looking at the XML I see:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="2" librarySectionTitle="Documentaries" librarySectionUUID="69419cae-fd65-483d-a1c7-f8d69e48b6d7" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1670489099">
<Video ratingKey="101843" key="/library/metadata/101843" guid="local://101843" type="movie" title="Free Solo" librarySectionTitle="Documentaries" librarySectionID="2" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/2" summary="" thumb="/library/metadata/101843/thumb/1647851438" art="/library/metadata/101843/art/1647851438" duration="6004998" addedAt="1600737588" updatedAt="1647851438">
<Media id="142019" duration="6004998" bitrate="2976" width="1916" height="1034" aspectRatio="1.85" audioChannels="6" audioCodec="ac3" videoCodec="hevc" videoResolution="1080" container="mkv" videoFrameRate="24p" videoProfile="main">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="142404" key="/library/parts/142404/1647851418/file.mkv" duration="6004998" file="/Videos/Documentaries/WwW.SeeHD.WS__Free Solo 2018 1080p WEB-DL X264 AC3-SeeHD.mkv" size="2236333176" container="mkv" deepAnalysisVersion="6" indexes="sd" requiredBandwidths="3457,3272,3033,3033,3033,3033,3033,3033" videoProfile="main">
<Stream id="290672" streamType="1" default="1" codec="hevc" index="0" bitrate="2592" language="English" languageTag="en" languageCode="eng" bitDepth="8" chromaLocation="left" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" codedHeight="1040" codedWidth="1920" colorRange="tv" frameRate="23.976" height="1034" level="120" profile="main" refFrames="1" requiredBandwidths="3073,2888,2650,2650,2650,2650,2650,2650" width="1916" displayTitle="1080p (HEVC Main)" extendedDisplayTitle="1080p (HEVC Main)"> </Stream>
<Stream id="290673" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="ac3" index="1" channels="6" bitrate="384" language="English" languageTag="en" languageCode="eng" audioChannelLayout="5.1(side)" requiredBandwidths="384,384,384,384,384,384,384,384" samplingRate="48000" displayTitle="English (AC3 5.1)" extendedDisplayTitle="English (AC3 5.1)"> </Stream>
</Part>
</Media>
<Field locked="1" name="title"/>
<Field locked="1" name="titleSort"/>
<Extras size="0"> </Extras>
<Related> </Related>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>
Refresh Metadata does change anything.
I have similar issues with the Share with Friends functionality. It’s not always there. I’d like to share any “media” item in my Plex libraries with my friends including movies, whole shows, individual seasons or episodes, music genres, artists, albums, and even songs. Both of these options seem hit-and-miss and very inconsistent.
^^^ this means the video is unmatched.
It is not connected to any video listed on watch.plex.tv
Thus it cannot be stored in the Watchlist.
How do I get it to “match” then? I tried the Match button but nothing matched…
Take a look at the file’s name. It’s no wonder Plex can’t find a match for that.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018497-fix-match-match/
The video is listed, so if you give Plex a chance to recognize which movie it is, it will match it. https://watch.plex.tv/movie/free-solo
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