moviefan 184 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 I recently combined all of my documentary videos - both movies and TV series - into one combined mixed content library. In general, everything has been working as expected. I noticed a small oddity today, however. For the TV series which I have previously watched, they show up in the view when watched status has been filtered out. Upon entering the series, the watch status symbol is checked. Then, after unchecking, confirming the dialog asking if I am sure I absolutely want to do it, checking again and confirming the same, exiting back out of the TV series, it is filtered out of the view. Not sure what I am changing by doing this as the items were already watched previously. But it is repeatable behavior that just seems strange. Honestly not a huge deal but just figured I would point out this strange behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Hi, is this consistent with the web app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 Hmmmm, not really. The web app doesnt filter out watched series from a Mixed Content view period. I can check status, uncheck it, whatever. All TV series are always shown when Filter is set to unplayed regardless of their played status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Hmmmm, not really. The web app doesnt filter out watched series from a Mixed Content view period. I can check status, uncheck it, whatever. All TV series are always shown when Filter is set to unplayed regardless of their played status. I can reproduce that behavior in web client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Right because it's only filtering on the actual items whereas series need to filter based on the watched status of their episodes. This is where the dedicated TV content type will help you because it does this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted May 30, 2019 Author Share Posted May 30, 2019 But, if the series status is "Played", why would it not be filtered out when Unplayed is the filter? If I hover over the series item, it has a red check mark on it. It knows that the status of the series is played. Why would it display it? This seems like something that would be easy to fix and no reason not to. Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Because we don't set status on the series, but rather we calculate it dynamically based on the episodes within that series. It requires a special filtering method which is only activated in the tv series view because we know you're looking at tv series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Okay well I guess this would be a feature request from me then. Properly show watched status of TV series in Mixed Content libraries. Having both TV Series Documentaries and Movies Documentaries combined into one library is much nicer from a view perspective. Just wish this aspect would work without needing to create two separate libraries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pstump 0 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 i cant understand why the mixed library if the mixed contend have these type of conflict kkk and i agree is much better have the mixed contend for something like animes (where im having the same issue) animes sometimes have movies, and i put the movies of that animes in the same folder. i cant understand the checked green symbol to, why theres no chececk symbol in series? in the mixed contend, the filter doesnt work and the unwatched movies and already watched movies is the same desing so i have to check individualy with the mouse to check if there tittle is an serie watched or and unwatched movies (when theres and anime with 2 spinoff and like 3 movies is very dificult....) and i cant filter the library by the filter is something very anoing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pstump 0 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 if the mixed contend already check the number of episodes and update the design dynamically i cant see why it cant set the watched status and the green checked symbol at same time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 A design choice, is about the different views. But when you do this combine view this is where your issue arises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pstump 0 Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 (edited) yes but the mixed content folder, is design for that.... so the folder should be programed to acount that, why you would do the mixed content, if it cant handle the mixed content? and i know the checked symbol is design choice, but the filter is not, i just mentioned it. Edited October 20, 2019 by Pstump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 We are constantly working on improving the display with more sorting and filtering options. Thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted November 13, 2019 Author Share Posted November 13, 2019 A design choice, is about the different views. But when you do this combine view this is where your issue arises. While I understand fixing this is not a priority, I'd like to understand the specific scenario where a user has mixed content, and prefers to display watched content when explicitly selecting the filter to remove it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Yes that's a valid use case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Yes that's a valid use case. Can you help me understand the reason though? if someone watches something why do they want the system to see it as unwatched? How is this logical? Why would it be the default behavior of the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Why do you feel we show watched as unwatched? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8282 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 (edited) Why do you feel we show watched as unwatched? Because you can not tell that they are both watched, from a Mixed Content perspective. Would be harder without the CA covers. Edited November 15, 2019 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moviefan 184 Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Thanks Happy2Play. And not that you just cant tell if they are watched. When I pull up the mixed content folder and one of the series has all of the shows watched, I'd like the filter to actually work. That's what I am not understanding. Why would someone prefer this filter not work for mixed content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeleus 0 Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 (edited) Please enable us to filter out watched content in mixed content libraries. I created a mixed content library for my wife - she is not interested in (what is for her) the artificial distinction between TV series, movies, mini-series, or movie franchises (two or more movies grouped in a folder). When selecting "unplayed" as the filter, she is presented with nearly 70 items when in reality fewer than a dozen are actually "unplayed". This makes the filter, essentially, a useless feature. Like others in this thread, I'm left wondering, "what is the point of showing played items (i.e., containers with nothing but played items) when I select *unplayed* items?" Edited December 30, 2019 by aeleus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37067 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 It's not that we're making a decision to take that away from you. There's just added complexity with that kind of filtering that the metadata-driven views don't have. So it's just not something we've looked at up to this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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