(2013-12-29, 03:01)jmarshall Wrote: Thanks. If anyone is using these frequently, I'd love to here why you're pressing the buttons to mark as watched, and how often.
The important case is where you need to mark a number of items (efficiency is less important for one offs).
For me, this means TV shows where you have many episodes which require similar treatment.
One example is where you are watching a show, and lose the watched marks after the Blu-Ray comes out and you replace the episodes with a higher quality version.
So, I work out I'm on episode 13 of season 3 of 24. I can mark season 1 and 2 as watched (if I'm in a view with seasons) easily enough.
Now I need to mark 12 episodes of season 3 as watched. I'm using a TV remote with limited buttons, so no shortcuts are available.
How this used to be was: I'd context menu the first episode, navigate to watched, and select.
It would automatically move to next episode, and the next context menu press would already have the last action (mark as watched) selected.
So, I can press context then select, for each episode. Two button presses per episode on remote. I can get through 12 episodes in seconds.
Once it was moved into the manage sub-menu, the highlighting of the last selected option was lost, and so it took many more button presses.
If it turns out I have watched more than half the episodes, I may mark the season as watched, and then unwatch the individual episodes.
This again should only require the two button presses per episode.