AdrianW 1006 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) Please change the default "Play All" button that appears at the top of a season folder to "Play Next" - I've lost count of the number of times we've accidentally pressed this and started playback at season one episode one. There's about one single use-case for the "Play All" button - you want to watch an entire series from the beginning. Every single other use-case would be to start watching at the first unwatched episode (i.e. "Play Next"). This has been suggested before here: Episode playing and some suggestions - with at least three users (including me) agreeing with the op. Edited October 15, 2016 by AdrianW 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEB 25 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 Hear! Hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooze 2 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Please! Sent from my MotoX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 14 likes so far. Let's hope Luke is listening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heuer 76 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 And if you hit 'play all' by mistake try getting out of it - pressing stop just starts the next episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted November 2, 2016 Author Share Posted November 2, 2016 Only one more to get to 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspdend 167 Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 There's my +1 for this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted December 23, 2016 Author Share Posted December 23, 2016 Bump again. Now up to 27 votes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWebsmith 598 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 yep.. hopefully someday this goes in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordy 271 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 It would even be Ok as is, as long as it only looks at unplayed episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkss12 268 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Add me to the list.... thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daedalus 425 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 (edited) if you really want to play a complete series from the beginning, eg you still can press play while the series selected in the overview, so this won't be a loss Edited June 5, 2018 by daedalus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 if you really want to play a complete series from the beginning, eg you still can press play while the series selected in the overview, so this won't be a loss It could also be added to the three-dot menu, which is the ideal place for those edge-case scenarios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Share Posted June 28, 2019 Wow - I love it, thanks Luke! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30161 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 (edited) I actually made use of the new "Play Next Up" button last night - and it did play the next up episode - BUT, after the episode completed it started playing the next one. Please make the new "Play Next Up" button respect the "Play next episode automatically" setting. Edited July 20, 2019 by AdrianW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mentasm 43 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Love this change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30161 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Love this change Thanks for the feedback ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 @@ebr The only suggestion I would make, is change the text to resume when that is what it's doing. It's a little confusing seeing play next when you're in the middle of an episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianW 1006 Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 @@ebr The only suggestion I would make, is change the text to resume when that is what it's doing. It's a little confusing seeing play next when you're in the middle of an episode. + make the new "Play Next Up" button respect the "Play next episode automatically" setting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 12980 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 @@ebr The only suggestion I would make, is change the text to resume when that is what it's doing. It's a little confusing seeing play next when you're in the middle of an episode. From the perspective of the Series (where this button is) you are always "resuming" but I think using that terminology would be confusing to many. Therefore, I think using it in this case would also be confusing (What happened to "Play Next Up"?)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 From the perspective of the Series (where this button is) you are always "resuming" but I think using that terminology would be confusing to many. Therefore, I think using it in this case would also be confusing (What happened to "Play Next Up"?)... That doesn't make any sense. Playing next up when you are in the middle of an episode, is incorrect. You aren't playing the next episode, you're playing the same episode. If this is how you think, then just call it "Play". It shouldn't stay as is. I considered it an error and I was waiting for it to be fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 12980 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Playing next up when you are in the middle of an episode, is incorrect. You aren't playing the next episode You are on a Series screen not an Episode one. From the perspective of the episode you are correct but from the perspective of the Series, you are playing the next up episode. That is - the episode that appears as "Next Up" right below the button you are hitting. As I said, we considered just calling this button "Resume" all the time because, from the Series perspective, that is what you are doing - resuming the series. But we think people won't really understand that. The only thing I think we could possibly do to help here would be to make it say "Play Next Up - resume from x:xxx" when the next up episode happens to be a partially watched one but that gets to be too much text on the button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I disagree. It makes me nervous that the Android mentality is creeping in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 12980 Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Not sure what the "Android mentality" is as this has nothing to do with any platform but after some discussion, Luke and I think we've come up with something that will work much better in both situations. Basically, we'll just be specific about what is being played or resumed as opposed to using generic terminology. That way there should be no confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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