I love Plex’s managed user feature but it seems to have a few issues. When I try to add a podcast by URL under my main account it works fine. When I try to add the same podcast as a managed user, I get the error page “Something went wrong, an unexpected error occurred”. I did some digging and discovered that adding a podcast by URL triggers an AJAX request to
https://podcasts.provider.plex.tv/library/metadata/<podcast ID>
When I’m using my main account this returns the podcast information. But under a managed account, it returns
{"Error":{"statusCode":404,"error":"Not Found","message":"Not Found"}}
The only difference in the two URLs was the X-Plex-Token query parameter.
On a related note, when I tried to log in to the forums just now I couldn’t at first since the last account I had used was a managed user. I had to switch to my main account first. It seems like some of Plex’s backend systems don’t handle managed users well.
Anyway, if adding podcasts by URL could be fixed for managed users that would be awesome. Alternatively, if managed users could automatically have access to any podcasts added under the main account.
