[tvOS] Add/View/Manage Collections

Trakt Feature Requests
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Why does the tvOS App not show Collections? Or even the collected status of a movie or series?

I have a collection that is large enough that I can forget everything I have, and would really value being able to see if I already own something when I browsing for something to watch.

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It’s not exactly highest priority right now but I can see the value for sure and I imagine shouldn’t be that hard to port over to tvOS, just no ETAs right now.

Would you expect something similar to what we have with history right now, where it shows you the tick even on the main screens? or just within the show/movie page, etc?

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Understood regarding priorities.

I wouldn’t expect to see a mark on the main screen. I see it as being treated more like a list, so you would have a section titled COLLECTED - maybe under the profile tab.

Also, in the item screen, where you have ‘Watch now’, ‘Mark as Watched’ and ‘Add to watchlist’, there should be a ‘Collected’ action button (when not collected, changes to ‘Add to collection’, and allows collected items to be removed).

This would remove 1 of my pain points, of which I have 2 right now.

  1. Where I search for something to watch, I sometimes forget things I already have collected. I’d prefer to watch items I have collected, as they are inevitably higher quality than streamed.
  2. I have to go to another app to then find and watch the item.

This would solve the first, which for me would be a massive quality of life improvement.

The second would may be another future improvement, where you could launch a collected item from the ‘Collected’ action - in my case this would be to launch Infuse, which is what I use to watch my media collection (if this is possible). I realise this is probably a bigger ask, which was why I didn’t mention it initially - but maybe it too could go in the backlog.

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It won’t solve all of your issues, but if you have the latest beta version, 1.5 (140), I’ve added a read-only collection status. Let me know if that works for you.

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Yes, this works well for me to address the initial problem of forgetting if I’ve already got something already collected.

Hopefully over time collections can evolve into being more integrated into the tvOS app :slight_smile:

6

Do you happen to know if Infuse has a generic way to open an item? And which ID they might use? I found this but not sure if there’s a generic way to (attempt to?) open an item.

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By generic way to open an item, do you mean a fixed format address to identify an item? For example, sometime like “../[imdb-id]/movie.mkv”? I don’t know if such a thing exists, but suspect not. The file structures are free-form.

In my case I have a directory per movie. The directory and .mkv file naming is the format “[movie-name] ([movie-year]” to aid matching. Including the IMDB id is an option, but just as part of the name to aid matching, and not mandated. The file address is parsed for matching information. If you’re looking for a well structured item address, I don’t believe it exists.

With the tools I use, the collection could be exported to Trakt including the item location address. In my case the library is on an SMB share, and so would present data such as :

movie_imdb_id,movie_title,movie_directory,movie_filenames
tt0114746,Twelve Monkeys,\omv6\Movies\12 Monkeys (1995),12 Monkeys (1995).hddvd.mkv

You’d need to reach out to Firecore for see what else might be possible.

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Hmm, okay I’m unsure I have the time to look into it officially but theoretically it might be easy enough in the future to offer a way to open a custom format provided by the user and try open it such as

let movie: TraktMovie // 12 Monkeys
let type = "Movies"
let title = "\(movie.title) (\(movie.year))"
// pretend this comes from your custom format somehow
let user_format = "omv6\\\(type)\\\(title)\\\(title).hddvd.mkv"
// "omv6\Movies\12 Monkeys (1995)\12 Monkeys (1995).hddvd.mkv"
UIApplication.shared.open(
    URL(string: "infuse://x-callback-url/play?\(user_format)")!
)

Or as you say, maybe something could be synced to Trakt from Infuse somehow which we could then just open directly.

Thanks for the info either way!

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I understand that this isn’t a priority, and appreciate you considering it.

As an alternative it did occur to me that you could insist that the collection is stored in a specific file directory format -

e.g /[IMDB_id]/movie.mkv

but even this would be problematic, since the transport layer can be different depending on what file sharing system is employed and also the actual video file format isn’t always an MKV. Therefore to accommodate everything supported by Infuse, you need to be able to configure how the file location address is constructed.

If you do find time to look at this, if there is anything I can investigate to help you then please let me know.

The changes you’ve already implemented have already proved valuable to me - there is a movie I’ve been planning to rewatch for a while - I’ve been tracking it waiting for it to appear on one of the streaming services I subscribe to. Yesterday when browsing my tracking list I saw the new green book stack icon next to, and realised that it’s already in my collection of movies!!!

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