Navigation bug and some UI feedback

[voelkl 0]

Hi all,

I think I found a navigation bug in the Apple TV client related to autoplay.

It’s most noticeable when you fall asleep with Emby running. You wake up, autoplay has gone through several episodes, and now pressing Back makes you step through every single one before you get back to the home screen. Autoplay wasn’t something I chose to navigate to so it shouldn’t be stacking onto the back history the same way a tap would. I haven’t been able to reproduce it on demand but I’ll record it next chance I get.

Expected behaviour: wake up, press Back once, land back in the season/series/continue watching context you started from, press Back again and you’re at the Emby home screen.

This leads to my other bit of feedback around navigation friction more generally. Jumping to earlier episodes or switching seasons when you need to reorient yourself after falling asleep is harder than it should be, and other clients seem to handle it better.

If the Continue Watching screen could work more like a persistent season context, current episode selected (as it does now), previous episodes scrollable to the left, upcoming to the right, and a quick season dropdown, that would make “More…”, “Go To Season”, and “Go To Series” mostly unnecessary for the common cases. 

The best view you have right now for this is actually the Series screen. It has the current episode, watch history, and season navigation all in one place, it’s just buried in a menu if you enter via Continue Watching, and its never loaded into the back history, I'm always taken back to Continue Watching, which hides previous episodes, seasons, series behind added steps. 

The hierarchy is the problem. A unified series/season/episode/continue watching screen would be incredible and you’re already 90% of the way there with what exists in the season view. This is how most clients seem to handle this, every episode, season is a tap away rather than an extra menu, then tap. 

To give a better example, I was binge watching the Top Gear specials last night which are scattered across seasons. The amount of Continue Watching, Go To Series, Season 4, Find The episode, Back, Go To Series, Season 5 back and forth was the definition of UI friction.

Really appreciate all the hard work that goes into Emby, just trying to bring up a few pain points I find while using the app. I could be completely alone here and people may like the hidden history and buried navigation, but just thought I bring it up.

Thank you, Garrett

[voelkl 0]

Something like this... Infuse does it really well, but you lose transcoding. 

[Luke 42448]

HI, we'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.