How to clean up 'Latest...' Movies, TV Shows

[Alex3111 8]

How does one clean up the 'Latest..' Movies, TV Shows from plagued of items that I don't care for; meaning, there are movies and TV shows that my users have requested, that have been approved to be added, but I (my user account) don't care to have them sitting in my 'Latest...' forever.  I have item there that will NEVER go away, as I don't care to watch them, yet they have been sitting there for months.  If I select "Played" they go away, but now my 'Suggestions' are useless, as I don't care for Bluey or Monster High, yet I am allowing for such shows/movies to be in the server for my users (my family).  It seems that there is no easy way to maintain a clean Emby main-page.

How nice would it be to have a 'Not Interested' icon available, just like the 'Mark Played' or 'Add to Favorites', but simply a  that would remove it from the 'Latest', not mess with the 'Played' nor the 'Suggestions', simply remove it from viewing on the main 'Latest...' Movies/TV Shows/Music, etc.  I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how much work that would be, but would be a very nice option.

[seanbuff 1318]

43 minutes ago, Alex3111 said:

don't care to have them sitting in my 'Latest...' forever.  I have item there that will NEVER go away

Little confused by this statement, the Latest row is controlled by how you have configured this option under 'Library' > 'Advanced' tab


I personally use 'file creation date' for this very reason so that I can control what is displayed up front on this row.

But there should be no scenario where an item should remain there "forever" -- based up the above option, by default as you add new content, the older stuff moves down the row.

 

Edited August 6, 2024 by seanbuff

[Happy2Play 9781]

Minus a future added date new media should replace older media unless you watch it then of course the old will be present again.  But the row is controlled by date added value.

[ebr 16184]

When my kids were younger, they had a ton of shows and movies I didn't want to see so I physically segregated them in the file system and used our Folder Based Access Control so that only they saw those items.

This should work in this case as well.

[Alex3111 8]

On 8/5/2024 at 11:27 PM, Happy2Play said:

Minus a future added date new media should replace older media unless you watch it then of course the old will be present again.  But the row is controlled by date added value.

Say there are 10 movies displayed on "Latest Movies", dated from Today back to May, because not that many new stuff has been released.  But during that time, truthfully about 18 NEW movies were added, and 8 were watched.  The 10th movie is from May, but I have NO interest on watching ANY of them, thus the reason why they are still there.  And new movies are added, that I am interested, so I keep on watching, now the SAME 10 movies are still there, showing as Latest Movies, yet again, I have NO interest on watching them, they are kid movies or simply non-interested to MY account.  But there are movies from April, in fact, back from the previous November that I am interested, but totally forgot I had them because the 10 movies that I am not interested, are still taking space in the Latest Movies; same with TV Shows and Music.  Some other users might be interested, that is why they requested them, and maybe THEY watched them, and are no longer showing in THEIR Latest Movies/TV Shows/Music, but you know what, I am still seeing them 10 Latest that I have no interest.  So, how do I get rid of them without pressing the 'Mark Played' which screws up the algorithm for 'Suggestions'.  Because I really don't care about High School Musical, nor Monster High, but they have been sitting there for months!

FOr example, see the 'Latest Movies' on my system, 16 of them, see the last one, Kung Fu Panda 4, was added on 

I don't care to watch it, and neither do I care for Despicable Me 4, The Ewok from 1984, IF.. in fact, out of the 16, I don't care for 10 of them!  But I know I have movies that I do want to watch, that are not showing there, and that I have forgotten.  So when you look at the 'Latest...' it's fairly useless for MY taste.  I may not have the same time to watch as my other accounts, but it plagues my 'Latest...' yet there is NO way to remove them, unless I select:  Mark Played... then, there goes my suggested portion, which I find WAY more useful from actual movies that I have watched.  Again, I am not a programmer, but seems that a simple "Not Interested' which simply removes it from the 'Latest ...' would simplify the issue at hand; and it is hard for me to believe that I am the only adult going through this; unless every other Emby user simply doesn't have children wanting to watch things.  Or other users that may be allowed to request items that simply do not interest the owner of the system.

and looking into my 'Suggestions', yes I would be interested on watching some of them since I watched... 

[Alex3111 8]

On 8/6/2024 at 10:37 AM, ebr said:

When my kids were younger, they had a ton of shows and movies I didn't want to see so I physically segregated them in the file system and used our Folder Based Access Control so that only they saw those items.

This should work in this case as well.

So your suggestion is for me to spend "time" moving items around in folders/directories.  But wait, I do not see that "folder" on my account, but guess what, the other accounts may want to chose on their own if they want to see them or not, so should I also give THEM access to my system so they can move the movies they are not interested on to another folder so "their" Latest is not plagued by items that we simply do not care (Not Interested)?  Seems like a good solution...  really?  A thumbs-down in Netflix stops showing you that movie/show at some point, but trust me, Netflix didn't move the file to another folder, that simply seems like a 1990s way of maintaining data.  So let's spend time deciding if I should have this file in this folder, or that one.  Wow..

[Happy2Play 9781]

9 minutes ago, Alex3111 said:

So, how do I get rid of them without pressing the 'Mark Played' which screws up the algorithm for 'Suggestions'.  Because I really don't care about High School Musical, nor Monster High, but they have been sitting there for months!

Really depends on if you are talking about a per user method or global method as you can change the date added value.

Or Tag and remove from user if have no interest in the media.

But Latest will always be latest date added.  Then played/unplayed depending on your Hide Played Media From option

Personally I would rather enter library and see grid than use a scroller any day of the week.

Edited August 9, 2024 by Happy2Play

[ebr 16184]

11 hours ago, Alex3111 said:

So your suggestion is for me to spend "time" moving items around in folders/directories.  But wait, I do not see that "folder" on my account, but guess what, the other accounts may want to chose on their own if they want to see them or not, so should I also give THEM access to my system so they can move the movies they are not interested on to another folder so "their" Latest is not plagued by items that we simply do not care (Not Interested)?  Seems like a good solution...  really?  A thumbs-down in Netflix stops showing you that movie/show at some point, but trust me, Netflix didn't move the file to another folder, that simply seems like a 1990s way of maintaining data.  So let's spend time deciding if I should have this file in this folder, or that one.  Wow..

It was just a suggestion that could work for you right now.  I'm just dealing with my family on my server so it is very easy for me to determine which shows are for me and which are for my kids/others.  I'm the one adding them and I just put them in the right place at that time.

[Alex3111 8]

19 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Really depends on if you are talking about a per user method or global method as you can change the date added value.

Or Tag and remove from user if have no interest in the media.

But Latest will always be latest date added.  Then played/unplayed depending on your Hide Played Media From option

Personally I would rather enter library and see grid than use a scroller any day of the week.

The 'Latest' works for what it is meant.  The issue at hand is that once I have watched most of the 'Latest' that I am interested, then it gets filled with 'Latest' that I have no intention on watching, as the examples that I have shown above.  So there is a point that all my 'Latest' are simply items that I will NEVER watch, and can't get rid of them either, as the reason why there are still 'Latest' items from March 2024, and I will never care to watch them; as mentioned on the previous post.  At this moment there is no simple way to get rid of them from continue to populate, and this has been for years.  I remember having 'Latest' items that were close to a year old, and I decided to 'Mark as Played' and that sent my 'Suggestions' in a loop thinking that I wanted to watch children movies, so I quickly learned that is not the best way.  Filtering and tagging seem like a bad way, as I would then have to load up Emby and select the filtering.  Imagine having a 'Thumbs-Down' or 'Not Interested' icon by the 'Favorite' or 'Mark as Played' that simply removes them, instead of each user having to add tags to things they don't care to watch, to then apply such filter.

[Happy2Play 9781]

Yes as a Date Added value will keep them there forever if you don't have something to replace them.  But Devs would have to develop a new system and implement in ever client for your suggestions but would fall under a Feature Request if ever implemented.

You have the Recently Released Row also but will run into the exact same issue of things you don't want to watch filling the Row as they are listed by Release Date not Date Added.

[Alex3111 8]

7 hours ago, ebr said:

It was just a suggestion that could work for you right now.  I'm just dealing with my family on my server so it is very easy for me to determine which shows are for me and which are for my kids/others.  I'm the one adding them and I just put them in the right place at that time.

Thanks, but that is what I used to do years ago, and spent so much time having to move things around.  Felt like I was spending more time maintaining the database, than actually enjoying it.  So I simplify my folders, Movies, TV Shows, Music... ALL movies go to /Movies, regardless if they are children, adult, PG, R; you know, like Netflix, Prime, AppleTV, etc.  Same with Shows, ALL shows go in TVShows.  Yes, my children account may have the parental control portion R and so on, so they don't get to see all of them, but that is pre-filtered by the account parental control, just as the services mentioned.  But the days of having Movies - Children, Movies - Adult are over, and get to enjoy the system, rather than spending so much time moving them.  Then I had to give Adult access to both, Adult and Children (as what your suggestion sounds like), since sometimes we (adults) may want to watch Wrecked Ralph or Minions.  A 'Thumbs-Down' or 'Not Interested' button just like the heart (favorite) or the checkmark (mark played) would make it so simple.  I'm not a programmer, but I can picture the 'Latest' section with something like:  IF NotInterested THEN don't show in 'Latest'.  And since there are X amount of spaces to show, more 'Latest' that haven't been played, and are probably even OLDER, will populate, but not like the picture that I showed above, where 16 'Latest' are showing (I guess that's my limit), and I will NEVER care, nor watched 10 of them, yet if I were to watch the remaining 6, those 6 spots will get filled with even older 'Latest', which is fine, and maybe could be 4 out of 6 that I will never care for either, and there could be a moment (like it occurred some time ago), that ALL 16 spots were filled by items that I will NEVER/EVER care for, yet they'll sit there until 'NEW' Latest show up, that I haven't watched, and care for.  See the issue?  Filtering seems like too much work, meaning, having to write tags on them, then open the Filter option, write the tag so it removes them; and that tag will show on every user (not sure, never done it).

[Alex3111 8]

6 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes as a Date Added value will keep them there forever if you don't have something to replace them.  But Devs would have to develop a new system and implement in ever client for your suggestions but would fall under a Feature Request if ever implemented.

You have the Recently Released Row also but will run into the exact same issue of things you don't want to watch filling the Row as they are listed by Release Date not Date Added.

You are telling me the 'Favorite' or 'Mark Played' is a feature that is written into every client?  Not server side?  Can't be.  Because when I open Emby on my Roku, my FireStick, my Android phone, my Chrome, they are the same 'Favorite' and 'Mark Played'.  So the suggestion is a simple 'Thumbs Down' or 'Not Interested' icon, just like the heart or checkmark, my suggestion would be a small circle with a line across, and the code would be something like:  IF NotInterested=yes, THEN don't display in 'Latest'.  Sure, the movie/tvshow/music has been added, it's new, it's one in 16 of the latest, but nobody (except the user that requested that) is going to watch that movie/show/music, yet that item will continue to show there until you either watch it, screw up your suggestions by marking it played (even though you didn't, to simply remove it), or gets pushed by more new content; which again, might be the same; more of the stuff that you don't care for.

Maybe I am not setting up my 'Home Screen' properly, as I have:  My Media, Continue Watching, Next Up (Legacy), Latest Media, None, None, None.  I tried having 'Recently Release Movies' and it showed exactly that, and some I had already watched, but still showing them (in fact, many of them), and movies that I hadn't seen, and movies that I don't care for.  But it seems those choices are based on 'release date'.  So I really didn't find that very useful and turned it back to 'None' again.

 

[Happy2Play 9781]

Yes as you see it with ever feature implemented as the client need updates also.  Dozens of topics of why a specific client has something and another does not.  One reason they are going to unified Android app.

So a simple request is not always simple.

[ebr 16184]

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