📚 The Library on Trakt: What It Is and Where It’s Going

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

@kcador

Please don’t catalogue everything you have access to on Streaming Services in your Trakt Library or in a List.

You’re speaking in riddles and contradictions, sir.

@kcador

Going forward, the Library is intended to represent your Digital Media Library.

That means Movies and Episodes you have digital access to and can actually play in a Media Center.

A simple rule of thumb:

If you can press a Play button from Trakt to start watching something somewhere, it belongs in your Library.

That said I do agree it’s ridiculous, hence why this whole change is ridiculous.

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@kcador

The Collection can be a List.

The Digital Media Library can be a list.

[soonertbone (Tony Bates)]

I can’t say I really understand what’s changing, given all the confusing back and forth, and I certainly don’t understand why it’s changing.

But I want to submit my use case for consideration, because it’s absolutely something I rely on Trakt v2 for and it would be really difficult if this got changed:

I frequently pull up my watchlist, filter by “not in Library,” and use that as a jumping off point to determine which movies/shows I need to acquire in order to watch them in the future.

If Library maintenance is moved to a List, it doesn’t seem like I’ll be able to filter in this way. In other words, I won’t be able to cross-reference Watchlist with Library list. This would be bad, and is a real step back from the usability of the platform. Please reconsider.

[neilcgardner]

@lifeiscrazy

@kcador

The Collection can be a List.

The Digital Media Library can be a list.

No, that would be terrible. The link to your playable Digital Media Library has to remain distinct from lists, as it allows different behaviour. On a media player device (e.g. an Apple TV) the distinction is that it can selected for playing directly from the Trakt App on the device, exactly as if you were linking to a streaming service.

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

@ObiJan

since each episode of a collected show counts as one item, that’s not as much as it sounds)

That’s not true though.

Only a movie and a series is one item. Seasons and episodes are all counted together towards the 100-limit.

At least, that’s what always been said

[otakunet21]

that’s correct but some people either manually add individual episodes to their library/collection or their plex sync or other media center syncing adds episodes individually which would count that way unfortunately

[CajunRob]

My Library currently contains 19,693 items. Once this becomes a list I’m limited if I am reading this accurately. And that’s purely items synced from Plex. It truly doesn’t take much to get there if one has collected some long running TV series with each episode counting as an item.

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

@otakunet21

adds episodes individually

And that’s what I said doesn’t matter.

Trakt staff has stated before that no matter what you add: season or episodes or shows, if it’s the same parent entry (show), it counts as one item toward the max.

But we all know reality doesnt always match what Trakt staff says.

Question about the 100 items limit

No, this would count as 1 show in your collection when calculating your limit. Your collection page has a total count of episodes + movies, but the limit is calculated using shows + movies.

[BubbaHoTepSr]

Kevin posted this today in response to a question about media in the library:

@kcador

The Library is meant to be the place where you keep track of the media you own like DVD, Blu-ray, etc. The metadata tags are displayed in the Library.

I’ve highlighted “media you own like DVD, Blu-ray, etc.” This is the complete opposite of what he has posted in this thread with respect to where V3 is heading with the library. Very frustrating.

This is the post I cut this comment from:

Unknown Date (In Library) Bug

When adding a movie to my library and tagging it as “Unknown Date,” it shows up in my library, but when idicating the medium (DVD/Blu-ray, etc.), that does not get tagged. It just shows in the library under Unknown Date.

[otakunet21]

if you add the show to your library then yes its one entry but if you add individual episodes then each episode is an entry, thats how Justin is trying to explain it there. For those that scrobble, like CajunRob, its counting each item individually

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

Whatever lol

[lifeiscrazy (꧁『marr』)]

Sounds like he doesn’t know you can add items as collected on an unknown date (let me use the collection word as it’s super clear it’s not added as watched on an unknown date lol)

[Amon_101 (Dan Holder)]

I understand the feature and the unknown date. I’m speaking about adding to collection, not watched. (guess I should have been more clear in the original posts lol)

[Amon_101 (Dan Holder)]

Never mind. I just won’tuse the “Unknown Date” feature for items I own and are in my personal possession since apparently it’s not working correctly on my account for whatever reason.
Apologies for taking up your time.

[kcador (Kevin)]

Follow up

Update on Physical Library Handling

This post is an addendum to The Library on Trakt: What It Is and Where It’s Going. First of all: thank you! We’ve read through your feedback in our first announcement. 27 of you took the time to explain how you use your Library, especially for physical media, and that context matters. What we heard Logging your Physical Library (DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) is important. And more specifically: you want it mixed with your Digital / Playable Library, not separated into Lists. That’s clear. W…