Movies Anywhere is greatest referred to as the service that syncs collectively bought films throughout completely different retailers (with the intention to, say, watch films you acquire on iTunes via Google Play, or vice versa). But the service additionally has a reasonably strong app of its personal, which is getting a brand new machine learning-powered checklist function to routinely generate lists that kind your library based mostly on what films you want.

The function, aptly named “My Lists,” affords two choices: routinely generated lists — like gathering all of the Star Wars films collectively or creating a listing of the romantic comedies you personal — and commonplace user-created lists. Users will be capable to edit the automated playlists (so as to add or take away films that they really feel match the gathering), and people lists will replace over time when new bought films are added to your library.

The approach it really works is easy: Movies Anywhere has already created hundreds of these automated playlists (my library provided me “Period Pieces,” “High-Energy Action Movies,” and “Whimsical Fantasies,” amongst others). It then scans customers’ libraries of bought films, and utilizing each the titles {that a} consumer owns and their watch historical past, selects what it thinks are essentially the most related playlists to indicate (which is the place the machine studying is available in).

The new function is the most recent addition to a collection of updates that the corporate has added to its app, following different additions like Screen Pass and Watch Together, to attempt to persuade clients to spend extra time in it. But the My Lists function additionally highlights the constraints of the service: particularly, that it solely works throughout the Movies Anywhere app. The playlists created there received’t sync to different providers, nor can they draw on watch knowledge on different platforms to assist the algorithm determine which playlists to floor for patrons.

The new My Lists function ought to be rolling out to Movies Anywhere customers beginning at present.