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Nexview 0.8.0 — In library & already watched

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@DerKezorm DerKezorm released this 19 Aug 12:47
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  • Titles already on your media server are recognised. Nexview now reads
    what sits in your Plex library and spots what never came through
    Radarr/Sonarr — a file copied by hand, or a collection that predates the
    *arr setup. Those titles show as "In library" and cannot be requested a
    second time. The sync runs hourly in the background; the settings show how
    many titles are indexed, when it last ran, and offer a "Sync now" button.

    Matching goes by TMDB id, then TVDB id, then title — and always checks the
    year as well. That is not caution for its own sake: in a real library of
    3509 films, exactly one carried a wrong TMDB id, pointing at an entirely
    different film. Without the year check, anyone searching for that other film
    would have been told they already own it. A missed title costs a duplicate
    download; a false one takes a title out of the catalogue for good, with no
    visible reason.

  • You can see what you already watched. Titles you have seen on your media
    server carry a small "Watched" marker next to their status. Everyone sees
    only their own — what one person watched is nobody else's business — and the
    marker sits beside the status rather than replacing it, so "already
    downloaded" stays visible.

    Two sources feed it, and both are needed: for the account whose access is
    stored, the counter Plex keeps on each title, which is complete; for
    everyone else the playback history, which Plex only keeps for a while.
    Measured on a real server: the history held 38 films, the counters 354. For
    shows, one watched episode marks the show.