Multi-version and playlists

[crusher11 1271]

Playlists are based on file paths, so if you add a movie to a playlist it only adds a specific version. When you click on the item in the playlist, though, you get the usual item details screen so you can pick any version you like.

However, if you don't have access to the specific version that was added to the playlist, the playlist doesn't show that item at all, even if you have access to other versions. You also can't specify which version you want to add to the playlist. So as an admin, with access to everything, when I try creating playlists for users who don't have access to the 4K versions of movies for transcoding reasons can't see any movies on the playlist if those movies have a 4K version on the server, because that's the version my admin account defaults to and thus adds to the playlist.

It needs to either be version-agnostic or ask which version I want to add.

[ebr 16667]

8 hours ago, crusher11 said:

It needs to either be version-agnostic or ask which version I want to add.

Not the way the version feature is currently designed to be used.  There is a ton of discussion on this already.  Our current version implementation is not intended for different editions of an item.  It is intended for different qualities of the same item.

The concept of "Editions" will need to be introduced to get what you want here.