It would be a time saver if you could create a “Smart Playlist” that would allow you to pick multiple TV series and anytime there are unwatched episodes of these series that series would show in the “Smart Playlist”. After each episode is watched that episode would be deleted from the “Smart Playlist” but the file would stay in the library and be marked as watched. Once all the available episodes for that series are watched that series would not show in the playlist.
With so many new shows dropping an entire series at once and the others dropping weekly this would make shuffling multiple series that you watch on a regular basis so much easier.
Then when new episodes of a Smart Playlist series are added those episodes would make the series reappear in the Smart Playlist and show the unwatched episodes available.
Agreed, would settle for infuse pulling through all Plex, Emby, etc collections in the short term with the target of having its own in the long term. Most of these servers support collections in all media now.
Most everyone has multiple favorite TV series and the ability to have new episodes of all of them automatically added to a smart playlist would really cut down on the duplicate files and constant maintenance.
Just converted over a few weeks ago from Kodi and I’m finding it strange the way the Watching playlist works. If I have a full season of episodes it work right in that I add the season to the Watching playlist and as I watch episode that show pops to the top of the Watching playlist and it there until the season is complete.
The problem is when I watch a season in progress on a week to week basis. If I’m all caught up watching episodes, when a new episode becomes available, it is not showing in the Watching playlist, I have to manually add it again first.
Is there a way to just add a show to the Watching list so when show to shows become available within a season or even in a new season, they automatically get added to the Watching playlist? This is basically how I’ve become accustomed to this capability with Kodi.
This is what I’m looking for. Have a list for the kids, one for shows the wife and i watch, and ones for the ones the wife and i watch separately. The playlist that just shows every episode of a show you have added is next to useless. Similarly, having the “unwatched tv shows” show the folder, instead of every unwatched episode would be ideal. Otherwise, really love everything about Infuse
Now that custom collections are here maybe now we could look at getting the smart playlists where you can add a series and anytime a new episode of a series that is included in your smart playlist is added to your library the smart playlist will add it automatically to that playlist. Then after an episode is watched it’s removed from the playlist.
Again, this would really simplify managing a group of routinely watched TV series.
Since custom collections don’t address many needs of a smart play list I’d like to bring this back up and see if there was additional interest.
The ability to specify a list of TV shows in a smart playlist so that any time a new episode is added to the library it is also added to the smart playlist would really help.
When your family follows certain series for the group with other series for individuals following without the others this would simplify it by having a smart playlist for each group. Then set those as favorites for each group.
@james , any chance of some renewed interest since the custom collections don’t address the ability to automatically update or be set as a favorite and current playlists show individual episodes and not the main series?
I second you on that. Seeing all episodes of a tv show in a playlist isn’t optimal in my opinion (and it has been raised by my plex users using infuse as their default player). The expectation is that a tv show -while being composed of many episodes- should be considered as a “single entity”.
When adding something to a playlist, I think we should be able to either add a single episode, a season (but seen as a single entity in the playlist) or a tv show as a whole (once again, seen as a single entity). On my side, the main reason behind that is that when I create a playlist composed of multiple tv shows I like being able to switch between those shows depending on what I wanna watch. Having all episodes listed makes it really painful to switch between them. You have to scroll all the way through the n episodes/shows you added before the one you wanna watch. And then you have to scroll through all episodes of your show before finding the one. It can take a lot of time.
Not sure if you have Plex but you can do this using it’s Smart Playlist.
Create advance filter then
Match all of the following:
* Show Title - contains - (shows you want to add on your smart playlist)
* Episode Unplayed - is true
You can play around with other filters to get what you need. Pin to Home or add to favorites in Infuse the playlist for easy access. Or maybe this is not how you want it to work?
Appreciate it but no, I don’t run Plex. That was the reason for starting with Infuse was how well it did and didn’t require another application running on a server to handle the work. Infuse just works.
I’m asking for this strictly as a function of Infuse.
Well it’s a new year and it still seems that a smart playlist that would hide items once watched so it would only show the remaining unwatched episodes would be great.
If you finish a series then it’d not be on the playlist until new episodes were added.
100% agree. The layout of the app is not at all designed for a real person’s workflow for watching new episodes of a set of shows you’re following now. I have to scroll all the way through Unwatched or create manual collections. I miss that about Kodi and other apps.
. Missed the forums.