A sorted Library and your total screen time
David White
Three feature requests arrived from TrackShows users, and all three are in the app today.
The first two were about the same screen. The Library’s Watching section listed every show you were part-way through in one alphabetical block: the show airing tonight, the show that ended in 2014, and the show whose next season starts in three weeks, all shuffled together.
Segregation in the Library Watching section between shows currently on air, and shows not on air.
Upcoming shows should be separated from the Watching section, just like they are in On Next.
Both right. TrackShows 1.16.0 splits the Watching section three ways.
Watching, No longer airing, Upcoming
Watching is now only shows that are still on the air with episodes ready for you. The next episode is still the state line.
No longer airing is shows that have ended or been cancelled while you still have episodes left. The show is done; you are not. It is the back catalogue you are working through, and now it does not clutter the list of shows that are actually moving.
Upcoming is shows you are caught up on, waiting for the next episode or a new season. Just like On Next, it is ordered by air date, soonest first, so the top of the section is the next thing coming back for you.
The Watching filter chip covers all three sections, because they are all shows you are part-way through. Nothing new to learn, just a tab that reads the way your collection actually is.
How long have you been watching?
The third request was different:
Two different sections, one for the total time spent with movies, and the same but for series.
So the Profile tab now has a Screen time section: one card for series, one for movies, each with your total watch time and the count of episodes or movies behind it. The totals are computed from the actual runtime of every episode and movie you have marked watched, not an average, so a diet of ninety minute crime dramas and one of twenty minute sitcoms are counted as what they are.
Whether the number is a badge of honour or a quiet warning is entirely up to you.
Live everywhere today
All of this is live now on the web app, and the Android release is rolling out on Google Play. As always, the full history is in the changelog.
Keep the requests coming: Profile, then Feature requests, straight from the app. The last several releases have shipped at least one thing a user asked for, and this one shipped three.