BETA: Craft your own experience with Personal Sections on tvOS and iOS

Ok.

Are there any trademark problems or are you guys able to add the various streaming service icons as options?

We won’t be adding brands.

I just installed the beta app on my iPad and I noticed that for every section such as videos, TV shows, etc. in personal sections and in the normal sections, each individual video is showing the artwork for the whole video group not each Individual video thumbnail. The normal stable app shows each thumbnail for each video

Only seeing this in the iOS version. The TV OS version on Apple TV is fine and is showing the individual video thumbnails fine

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EDIT. I also noticed that during playback the current time on the timeline bar is missing from the left side. time remaining is showing just fine on Right side. It’s the same in portrait or landscape Is that supposed to be that way on mobile?

The art changes are a bug.

The timeline change is not.

Could you add a blank icon for those of us using empty sections as sidebar spacers?

Virtual channels and personal sections have basically locked me into Channels! Nothing else comes close to what you can do with this software!

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This is resolved in the latest testflight beta

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Can we get the bug fixed where Video groups do not show individual video thumbnail in Up Next? It currently shows the video group set artwork.

I think I have mentioned this before.... or maybe it was just the artwork shown in the playback top an bottom bars still do not show thumbnail of video, and was told it a "long standing bug".

Just pointing out the few remaining fine details that need to be polished up before a stable app feature release.

This isn’t a bug and is working as normal. Up Next presents with airing art.

oh. Well, that makes sense for tv shows and movies, but not so much to me for video groups, which may or may not be just one show or thing.

I would prefer to see the thumbnail of the specific thing i am watching or that is up next, not the art of the whole group of things the file is in. Infuse and other players do it that way.

Minor thing, but maybe if others find it confusing or annoying, you may consider changing the behavior.
For now, i will just exclude my Video Groups from Up Next.

So, i guess the only other thing that is bugging me a bit, is the orange box issue in the top info bar when playing anything in a video group. Would be great to have it be the correct art, i assume the "airing art" that is shown on the timeline during playback.

I mentioned it in this post and was told it was a "long standing bug with video groups" here

How would I setup a filter to show only imports? With the forthcoming stream link generator, I'm thinking of adding a section that will list the newly added stream links for newly released episode, but not regularly recorded shows that would appear in Up Next section. From what I recall (and tested) stream links don't appear in Up Next since there is no way of tracking the watched status.

Smart Rules have a rule for imported or not. It works for episodes and movies and videos.

So this is fully available.

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Not seeing it. I tried using Advanced but couldn't figure out the right way to write it.

What is your row’s content set to?

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You have it set to tv shows.

As mentioned previously, imported is only available for episodes, movies, and videos.

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That was it. Thanks.

When adding a Library Collection as a Personal Section it honors the visibility of the individual shows — which I have all set to Hidden so the shows I like don't show up for other family members with different tastes. So the section appears completely blank. This is different from when I view the collection from the TV Shows section. Is there a way around this?

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This is tricky, but I understand. I’ll see if I can have it ignore the hidden rule in this case.

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These are resolved in the latest pre-release:

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