Disable "Next Up" for Certain Series

[Dreakon13 143]

There are a number of shows that I frequently "Shuffle" with... since I've seen all the episodes, don't intend to acquire more (or if I do I don't care about highlighting them beyond the latest added section), and episodes stand alone well enough to not want/need to watch it in order.  Just want to watch a random episode during dinner or something.  When I start doing this too much, the Next Up gets very cluttered.  If shuffle randomly gives me S04 E05 for a show, I'm not terribly concerned about making sure I watch S04 E06 next.

I've tried setting the entire series to Played, as I was hoping if all the "next episodes" were already Played it'd keep it off of Next Up, but no such luck.

Would it be possible to disable Next Up for individual shows upfront so they stop showing altogether?  By User possibly?  Or maybe if I Shuffle specifically, it won't show but playing an episode normally does?

 

Sorry if this is a duplicate, I searched a bit but the closest I could find was "forgetting" a series... which didn't really apply since I never want these shows to come back no matter how much I watch of it.

Edited April 12, 2021 by Dreakon13

[Luke 42077]

 

[Dreakon13 143]

Just now, Luke said:

 

"If you start watching it again, the "forget" would be forgotten and it would start to show up in Next Up again."

My idea would involve keeping the "forget" on permanently, so it wouldn't show up if I start watching again.

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

 

But the next time it is watched the series in Continue Watching again (4.6+).  There is no way to exclude a series from this row entirely.

[ebr 16169]

Yeah, basically you want a way to mark a series as "non-sequential" because next up doesn't really make sense with some series.  

[Jasonn4517 1]

I know this is a couple years old now, but I would love this. We shuffle collections all the time and it results in a cluttered up Continue Watching section.

[Luke 42077]

6 minutes ago, Jasonn4517 said:

I know this is a couple years old now, but I would love this. We shuffle collections all the time and it results in a cluttered up Continue Watching section.

Keep in mind we already have the feature to remove one manually.

[Jasonn4517 1]

18 minutes ago, Luke said:

Keep in mind we already have the feature to remove one manually.

But it reappears in Continue Watching the next time that show plays again.

*It would be nice to have an option to not show played shows in the Continue Watching.

Edited October 25, 2023 by Jasonn4517
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[user84 46]

I would like to throw my hat in to support this idea!

[Kyrunner 86]

Please add this or better yet if you hit shuffle on a TV show it doesn't show up in continue watching. 

[user84 46]

Any chance this is in the pipeline? Continue watching is pretty useless for me since I regularly rewatch comedies I've seen a thousand times and am not interested in seeing them in the continue watching list.

Edited September 22, 2024 by Blam84
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[ebr 16169]

9 hours ago, Blam84 said:

I regularly rewatch comedies I've seen a thousand times and am not interested in seeing them in the continue watching list.

If they are marked watched, they don't show there, right?

[RaptorCentauri 59]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

If they are marked watched, they don't show there, right?

Episodes that have been marked watch continue to show in continue watching. It appears to happen with in-progress episodes.

[ebr 16169]

1 hour ago, RaptorCentauri said:

It appears to happen with in-progress episodes.

Okay, yes, if you leave one partially watched, that will show.

[user84 46]

7 hours ago, ebr said:

Okay, yes, if you leave one partially watched, that will show.

So I guess that's a "no it's not in the pipeline."

[Luke 42077]

7 hours ago, Blam84 said:

So I guess that's a "no it's not in the pipeline."

In the next up/continue watching list, have you tried selecting Remove from Continue Watching in the context menu?

[ebr 16169]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

In the next up/continue watching list, have you tried selecting Remove from Continue Watching in the context menu?

Its just going to come right back when he plays that or another series again.

14 hours ago, Blam84 said:

So I guess that's a "no it's not in the pipeline."

It isn't currently being worked on but I still believe it would be very useful to be able to mark a series as "non-sequential" or whatever so that it does not appear in next up.  However, I'm not sure that really 100% translates to it not showing partially watched episodes...  so I think this is actually a different request.

[RaptorCentauri 59]

2 hours ago, ebr said:

It isn't currently being worked on but I still believe it would be very useful to be able to mark a series as "non-sequential" or whatever so that it does not appear in next up.  However, I'm not sure that really 100% translates to it not showing partially watched episodes...  so I think this is actually a different request.

I don't think a "non-sequential" flag is the way to go. Simply having a next-up/ continue watching blacklist would suffice. Let that be a user maintained list. 

[Luke 42077]

On 9/23/2024 at 8:53 AM, ebr said:

Its just going to come right back when he plays that or another series again.

 

Not when he plays another series, only if he plays that series again.

[user84 46]

5 hours ago, Luke said:

Not when he plays another series, only if he plays that series again.

Imagine you like to re-watch episodes of shows you've seen a million times. Say, for instance, Big Bang. And you have this nifty playlist created of all of the comedies that are like this. Let's just say comedies from the 2010s.

And then you create a smart playlist to only pull un-watched episodes so you don't get the same episodes popping up over and over when you shuffle play. But you're not really watching these shows sequentially, you're just RE-watching them for fun every so often.

It is these shows that I don't EVER want to appear in the continue watching area.

[ebr 16169]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Not when he plays another series, only if he plays that series again.

He referred to doing this with multiple series. That’s what I was referring to. 

[user84 46]

Just checking in on this topic. Are there any discussions about finding a way to remove certain TV series from the next up list?

[darkassassin07 652]

Like this existing option? (bottom)

[ebr 16169]

8 minutes ago, darkassassin07 said:

Like this existing option? (bottom)

No, this is different.

That existing option is temporary.  It removes the item from CW until you watch another episode of that same series.

This request is to be able to actually mark the series as something you never want to appear in CW/Next Up. 

[darkassassin07 652]

Ah, my mistake.

 

My other suggestion would be to use something like ERSatzTV to create simulated livetv channels that you can tune into whenever.

I set this up last month specifically for cartoon channels playing things in a random order like American Dad, Simpsons, Family Guy, etc. As well as some gameshows and a couple random movie channels.

Sometimes I just don't want to think about what to play next; nor manage the next up list.

 

Each of these plays local content on whatever schedule I choose (most are just set with a list of content to play at random) independent of on-demand content and its watch status.

 

 

 

Just an alternative to think about.