Best way for a “Watch me” system?

[podonnell 47]

Hi,

What’s the best way to set up a “watch me” system? Essentially want to keep track of what is on my short list to watch. I was making a playlist, but when I add a series, it puts in all the episodes. It makes sense why it does that; but I’d rather have the series as a single item. I’m thinking playlist might not be the best way for that reason. 

Any other tips how I could achieve this?

Thanks!

[Luke 42079]

Hi, I would say by using Collections.

[podonnell 47]

27 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, I would say by using Collections.

This could work, is there a way to make a private collection for my user only?

[Luke 42079]

On 10/21/2024 at 7:24 PM, podonnell said:

This could work, is there a way to make a private collection for my user only?

Not currently no.

[podonnell 47]

Thanks for the info.

My solution for now is going to be adding just the 'next / first' episode for a series that I want to watch as opposed to the Series as a whole. That will keep the playlist from being massive.

[Tremas 199]

Consider lending your support to the ongoing feature request here:

To me, this functionality is the largest gap in emby's feature set.

[serpi 82]

Why not use favorites for this?

[Tremas 199]

Personally, I use collections at the moment but that and favorites are still work-arounds. A full-featured "watch list" is a feature that I would consider to be table-stakes for any media manager. Hence the feature request.

Please like the first post in the Watchlist Feature Request if you haven't already. That is one way the emby team evaluates interest in a feature.

[podonnell 47]

1 hour ago, serpi said:

Why not use favorites for this?

But then what will I use for favorites?

The 'favorites' system however is almost identical to what I need. If I could have two of those lists and rename one of them, then I'd be happy.