Totally agree and we do too. Not being able to make a simple playlist like “last 7 days of news” or collection of “movies added in the last month that are unwatched” is making us miss out on a lot of scenarios for both Collections and Playlists. We’ll work on it.
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The Add Content modal shows TV episodes by season and episode number but doesn’t show the name. Makes it really hard to find the right episodes you want to add.
It was my understanding that Collections were going to be reworked to merge the two types - movies and TV - so that they were agnostic to the type of content. So if you wanted a movies only collection or a tv only collection or a hybrid of the two it would all just under collections.
Are playlists planned to replace collections or exist as a third grouping?
Playlists are not replacing collections.
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Wow maddy, great work on this high demand feature.
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This was resolved in the latest pre-release:
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This was resolved in the latest pre-release. Library Collections and Playlists are now sorted Alphabetically in the web admin (just like on the client) and now have a SortName field just like Movies and TV Shows, allowing you to manage their sort.
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I don't think this is true on the Android clients. They appear to still be in original creation order.
They'll have to be updated to consider Sort Name and also finally get them ordered alphabetically.
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Some fixes went out this morning regarding Playlists:
The latest Test Flight beta has added the ability to (on iOS) swipe to delete playlists, swipe to remove items FROM the playlist, and the ability to drag and drop re-order items in a playlist that has its sort set to Custom.
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As of the latest Test Flight beta, Playlist auto play behavior uses the system set auto play behavior.
As of the latest Test Flight beta, Playlists now have a button bar above them for Watch options and management.
The latest test flight beta fixes some playlists that weren’t playing in order when using certain sort styles
The latest Test Flight beta adds Siri Shortcut Actions for Show Playlist and Show Playlist on Other Device:
I have my playlist set to sort based on duration and it does display them in the correct order via the Channels web page, however on iOS/iPadOS they do not respect the sort order. Is there a setting I’m missing?
This definitely sounds like a bug. We’ll look into it.
I'm seeing this work as expected. Please submit diagnostics from your Channels DVR Server.
If you could describe the name of your Playlist and source of your content and any other information, it would be helpful.
Diagnostics submitted.
Regarding my Playlist: it’s named YouTube and points to a folder which is updated with new videos throughout the day. The sort is set to Duration and order set to Reverse. Visibility set to Library. Sort name and labels are blank.
And if you are staring at playlist in the iOS app, and you change the sort in your Channels DVR Server web admin, it does not change the sort?
Again, I'm seeing this work and there's no good reason that only sorting by duration wouldnt' be working, based on how the feature works.