Add a single 'series' to continue watching

[podonnell 47]

Hi,

I have a playlist I added to Emby, but it doesn't belong in my 'TV' library since its just a web series that is not official, has no IMDB/TVDB/etc.. entries, but it does have 'episodes'.
I would like to have this item appear on my home screen and allow me to watch in sequence, remembering where I left off.

Is my only option for this to make a new library with the setting that makes it appear in continue watching? I do have a library that is more fitting for the item, but that library globally has the setting off that shows where I left off and continue watching functions.

There's no way to individually allow an item to put itself in continue watching otherwise, is that right? If not, is there anything better than creating a whole new library for this?

[Luke 42078]

Hi, yes the best thing to do is make it part of a TV library with internet metadata providers disabled:

TV Naming

[podonnell 47]

On 5/5/2025 at 2:23 PM, Luke said:

Hi, yes the best thing to do is make it part of a TV library with internet metadata providers disabled:

TV Naming

Is there any issue going with 'Mixed Content'? I'm going to have content like say youtube documentaries as well as mini series that aren't "aired", so I wanted to account for 'movie-like' media as well.

I also don't know if the meta-data type matters at all because I am likely going to fully manually handle the metadata side of things. Any concerns with the type I chose outside of that?

Thanks!

[Luke 42078]

No known issues. You just have to follow naming guidelines a bit more strictly.

[podonnell 47]

6 minutes ago, Luke said:

No known issues. You just have to follow naming guidelines a bit more strictly.

Is that in order for Emby to know what is part of a 'series' and what not, so it knows how to link 'episodes' together?

[Luke 42078]

11 minutes ago, podonnell said:

Is that in order for Emby to know what is part of a 'series' and what not, so it knows how to link 'episodes' together?

In mixed content it is the naming conventions that determine if a video is detected as a movie or episode of a series.

[podonnell 47]

15 minutes ago, Luke said:

In mixed content it is the naming conventions that determine if a video is detected as a movie or episode of a series.

Got it, fully understood - thanks.

Last question - I'm pretty sure no is the answer, but is there a way to prevent seeing the 'Latest' section for a library, but allow it to show up in Continue Watching?

[Luke 42078]

55 minutes ago, podonnell said:

Got it, fully understood - thanks.

Last question - I'm pretty sure no is the answer, but is there a way to prevent seeing the 'Latest' section for a library, but allow it to show up in Continue Watching?

Currently no, they are tied to the same setting for that.