A good amount of shows have canonical versions of their episodes uploaded on YouTube.

It'd be useful if there was a way to "link" episodes with those specific YouTube videos.

This unique video ID (the part after /watch?v=) would ideally be exposed through the backend for API clients. As for the website, instead of embedding the video, a simple link would be fine since I don't think you guys are interested in turning Trakt into a viewing platform.

The reason I'm interested in this is, it's always been a hassle to keep track of your subscriptions and the content you care about on YouTube. It's a big mess. And with the introduction of YouTube original shows, serialized content is only going to grow from here. This change will enable devs to create browser extensions that implement Trakt directly onto the YouTube interface, allowing people to scrobble and track a lot more shows automatically. It will also potentially bring thousands more users to Trakt.

The implementation would be as straightforward as adding a database field for the YouTube video ID. Of course you do have to update the interface and the API endpoints to support the new field.

Some example links:
https://trakt.tv/shows/h3h3productions/seasons/2016/episodes/11 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMICTAl4LCg
https://trakt.tv/shows/open-haus/seasons/2016/episodes/32 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmHklWqagKc
https://trakt.tv/shows/on-the-spot-2014/seasons/6/episodes/6 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1NVV7ufTNE

i'm a Trakt noob. when my favorite iPhone app completely shifted over to using Trakt for their backend, i had to create a Trakt account if i wanted to continue using it. so i did.

recently i learned that the Trakt website lets you also track Movie's & such too (yes, i had not visited the actual website until recently); so i began to explore the site & thought i'd start filling in what i've seen & wanna see etc.

i was astonished to find that i could NOT add any movies to the "History" & "Collection" areas without providing a date & time. THAT's HORRIBLE!!! how the hell do i know when i first watch "The Princess Bride" or "Aliens" or "Braveheart" etc etc etc ?!?!?!?!

surely this can't be so, so... i dug in a little to the support pages - only to find that the Trakt people have made an intentional decision to NOT allow us users to add vids we've watched &/or own without requiring the date & time of such watching/buying! this is INCONCEIVABLE (pun intended) in my opinion!

to me, this renders my utilizing this service/site useless!

but, since this site SEEMS to be the best option to track both tv & movies, i would like to make a plea to the owner(s)/developer(s) to make the date/time part optional. or, if you can't conceive of how to do that (for some weird reason), then put an "unknown" or "i don't remember" option in the date/time sheet.

i read on one of the other posts linked below, where Founder/Admin Justin Nemeth said, "We don’t plan on supporting an unknown date right now since everything is key off of dates" - if that's true, then perhaps you can program in a hidden date/time for database purposes; or just add the date/time of the "Add to..." action AND having an optional date/time of watched/seen option for the users to use if they want to (and if they remember the date/time of when they saw it). all that to say, i bet some creative out-of-the-box thinking could figure out a solution.

now, i spent all this time to try, search, read, & write this but i do recognize that i could have missed something somewhere to render this post a stupid waste; and if that's so, then my apologies!

lastly, if you've actually read this far, then...
thank you for your time & consideration.
.peace.

REFS:
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/6899488-please-fix-trakt-2-0-re-the-diary-function-previ
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/4938996-seen-date-should-be-uncertain-different-from-th
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/9548070-remove-time-option-when-manually-adding-a-title-to
http://support.trakt.tv/forums/188762-general/suggestions/10829259-watched-at-obscure-date

During my childhood I watched many animes such as Dragon Ball Z.
If I check-in the seasons the TV Show becomes my most watched TV Show by far.
Therefore this will never change since it has over 200 episodes and no new TV Shows today will have that much (I think)
I would like to be able to add this TV Show in my watched list but don't think having it as my most watched TV show is really relevant.
This applies for movies too.

Suggestions

- Allow in settings profile section to choose if Most Watched boxes should refer to either 'current year' or 'all time'. If no movies or shows have been watched during this current year choose 'all time' by default
So the box's title should indeed go to "Most Watched in 2016"

- Another idea would be being able to replace those two boxes with featured lists or even some little widget showing what the user currently has on his deck

Could be a VIP feature

There's a great deal of interest in controlling Kodi and apps like it using Alexa, however to make that work, the app needs a remote server that can connect to Alexa's cloud servers. At present, the only way to set this up is using an elaborate server system, like this: http://www.howtogeek.com/249336/how-to-control-your-kodi-media-center-with-an-amazon-echo/

It seems to me that Trakt already has almost all the tools to make this work without needing an elaborate setup. You have the library of the Kodi user. You have a connection from Kodi to the internet. What you still need is a way to send commands to Kodi beyond setting watched status, a way to enumerate Kodi instances (if you don't already have this), so you know which Kodi you're controlling, and an integration with Alexa, which I presume can be found in that link I included. In other words, because of your setup, much of the infrastructure is already there.

Plus, if you put this functionality behind a donor wall, I imagine a LOT more people would donate.

It would be nice to be able to indicate where and with who has been seen a particular movie/episode. In particular:

[1] Every "watch date" should have its "where" and "with".
[2] In the "where" field I can write what I want.
[3] In the "with" field I can write what I want or add a trakt user.
[4] If in the "where" field I enter "Sunshine Cinema", this place is automatically saved in a specific "Places" page, in which I can add/delete/edit all the places.
[5] The places in the "Places" page are automatically suggested when I set the "where" field of a specific movie/episode.
[6] If in the "with" field I enter John", this person is automatically saved in a specific "People" page, in which I can add/delete/edit all the people names.
[7] The people in the "People" page are automatically suggested when I set the "with" field of a specific movie/episode.
[8] In the settings should be added a privacy option to restrict the visibility of these fields ("Everyone", "Only Friends", "Private").

Can we please have the same display/sort options for all pages??

A few examples of what I mean.

- Be able to view a personal list by "last watched"

- On the main page lists Trending/Popular/Played etc. Be able to hide as well as fade

- after searching be able to use the filters to sort by most popular/Plays/date etc.

- be able to reverse the sorting of all sort options, ie. Progress page cannot have "recently watched" reversed. Which would be great to see what I haven't watched for a while...

Basically, it would be great if the filtering and sorting options were the same for all lists on the site.

Thanks muchly!