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Hi, as a parent, I constantly switch between watching kids and adult shows and movies, often stopping one and starting another as children "demand".
When it is time to switch back, from adult to kid mode, or kid to adult mode, it is a pain to find what I was previously watching.
The same happens when multiple people share the same playback device.
I'd like the ability to view a recent list of media items played, sorted by last played, and to continue watching any of them.
Thank you
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I'll try it out and report back.
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Hi, sorry it took so long, I finally got around to trying your suggestion.
Ok, it works.
But, what I would really like is to have a recently played section on the top main page, similar to the recently added section.
Using your suggestion and what I found on the wiki, I have to configure favorites pointing to the list, and navigate to favorites on order to see the list.
Considering that I have several players in the house, all synced from MySQL, and we often move from room to room while watching.
I'd like to be able able to simply see what was recently played, and click and continue playing.
More specifically, I am only interested in filtering on items that are still in-play, i.e. somebody in the household has not finished watching it.
I use similar features on my DVR and Netflix and Amzon VOD all the time, it would be very useful to have recently watched on the main screen.
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Several skins offer this.
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Thank you, I didn't consider changing that.
Any particular ones you would recommend?
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Ok, thanks.
I see XeeBo is no longer being developed, any others, just in case XeeBo development does not get picked up by somebody else?
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I had the same demand and found out you can make a playlist just to do that.
Juct create a new "Smart Playlist" and add a rule using the "In progress" filter instead of the "Last Played" one, and set in to "True".
Give it a name and if you add this playlist to your Favourites you can easily get an overview of all movies that can be resumed.
In other words all the movies that have been stopped during play.
Hope this helps as it did to me.
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You could easily make this with the tools we have in place, and I wouldn't be surprised if it already exists in some skins.
This is not a feature request per se, as this is already possible in the skinning engine, eg there is no feature to be added.
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(This post was last modified: 2014-07-23, 08:20 by Kib.)
Not a skin, the engine that runs the skins.
It is possible, so go ahead and make the modification in your favorite skin.
Or install a few skins and check if it is possible. I don't personally want a list on the homescreen as I would much rather just have a button in my main menu called 'In Progress' - which i already created in my setup at home. (create smart playlist, add this as favourite, go to skin settings and add favourite as custom menu button)