I use Trakt primarily to find popular Movies and TV shows that are available across the range of streaming services I already pay for. The trending and popular sections under Movies and Shows are perfect for me, as they can filter out recent shows and movies that I’ve already seen or hidden, but the results are littered with movies and shows that I can’t watch because they are only available for purchase, and not included in the streaming service of my favorited platforms.
Is there a way I can filter out movies and shows that are only available on my favorite services with a purchase? Without this, I can’t see a way to use Trakt to find the shows and movies that I can watch now. It sounds like a little thing, but its ruining my ability to use the app effectively and I’m considering cancelling my subscription to Trakt as its not helping me do the one thing I was willing to pay for.
Hey there! Since you’re VIP, if you’ve selected your favorite streaming services in your account settings, there’s also a settings box for “only favorites”, which will display icons if the item is streaming on your favorite services.
For example, this screenshot is of the trending page. The Life List has the icon because it’s available to stream on one of my streaming services (Netflix), but Mickey 17 and The Monkey aren’t available to stream yet, so they don’t have the icon.
Actually, this setting doesn’t seem to filter out movies that are only available on my favorited platforms for purchase, so this isn’t useful for me to figure out what I can watch NOW included in my favorite subscriptions. I don’t want to see movies as playable that just happen to be purchasable from the same platform. I know its inadvertant, but this feels like paying for advertising.
Inlining purchasable content with subscriber content is an upsell technique from those platforms.
Cutting through the BS of the streaming services is your core value proposition for VIP. I hope you guys are taking this seriously, though I think I also understand the performance implications hinted at (not being able to build a cache when availability may differ in purchase/free based on regionality). Almost looks like the calculation is being done client side on the web app, as sometimes I see the play now button flicker and dissapear.
Anyways, thanks for letting me vent and providing me the best answer you have. Have a good day!
It’s not upsell or advertising. That’s just how the data comes in from JustWatch (and their API). This isn’t something that Trakt is doing to try and get you to purchase anything. It’s simply showing you your viewing options. Whether that’s free or paid…you still have the option to view the show/movie based on your favorited options.
icons if the item is streaming on your favorite services.
