Couple of suggestions

[salvadordalisdad 8]

Hi Guys,

LOVE, love, love Emby. Very reliable, only breaks every few months, easy to restore, lovely - well done to all.

Couple of minor suggestions which keep popping up while choosing/watching.

• Option to NOT have an episode of a TV series included in the "Watch Next" listing after watching one episode.

 - sometimes I just want to watch a random episode of a TV series & I don't intend to watch the rest, it was just a whim, a guilty pleasure (usually a very old TV show which is a stand-alone or something)

 

• Reliable option to pop movies into  the "latest movies" listing (or SUGGESTIONS)  in 1/2/3 months time.

I know there's a suggestions movies listing, but how movies get in there is utterly opaque to me, so I never look there. "Latest" movies is never accurate so pointless really. I usually end up putting them in a new collection which I then forget to look at later on while watching/choosing. Maybe a post-it note stuck on the telly would work!!

I'd really like to know how to successfully/.reliably/predictably get items iinto the "latest movies" list.

I'd have thought that the date/time on a file or folder or something like that might be used to populate it - but doesn't appear to be the case.

Happy to refresh date/time on a file or folder contents with a script if that worked - but it doesn't seem to unless I'm missing something.

Thanks in advance, happy to hear comments.

 

Keep up the fabulous work.

 

[ebr 16174]

29 minutes ago, salvadordalisdad said:

Option to NOT have an episode of a TV series included in the "Watch Next" listing after watching one episode

 

30 minutes ago, salvadordalisdad said:

I'd really like to know how to successfully/.reliably/predictably get items iinto the "latest movies" list.

Hi.  It is very simple.  It is the latest movies added to your system as defined by how you've set the "Date added" behavior in each specific library as well as how you've set the options of whether or not to show watched content in those lists.

[salvadordalisdad 8]

Hiya ebr

Woohoo! Nice one, quick answers & helpful, thanks!

Well i never spotted that option!

I've checked th eweb UI and it's there as an option after it pops into the "continue" list - brilliant, thanks!

 

Just going to check the movie one...OK bit hidden but found it.

Weird - as I suspected, it's based on "file creation date" - which I know it ignores when adding movies.

Doing a bit of digging, I notice that unix systems don't do "creation date" very easily, my Unraid system really doesn't like being asked about 

"ls -l --time=birth" - it responds with ? for every file, implying it's not a thing...

Could it be because it's on a unix derivative ?

I'll set it up with the other option for now, which might make a bit more sense, and have a play.

 

 

Thanks very much for the help, much appreciated.

[Luke 42078]

1 hour ago, salvadordalisdad said:

 

Could it be because it's on a unix derivative ?

That could present some challenges, yes. You may prefer to use the date added to the library instead.