I just installed a new version of Plex on my SHIELD TV. Now CONTINUE WATCHING on the HOME SCREEN doesn’t show MOVIES. It shows TV SHOWS*, but not MOVIES. If I go to add CONTINUE WATCHING MOVIES to the HOME SCREEN, there is a little house there. In other words, part of Plex thinks it’s already there, and part of it doesn’t think it’s there. In any case, it doesn’t appear on the HOME SCREEN, and I have tried everything. For the record, CONTINUE WATCHING continues to work (shows MOVIES and TV SHOWS*) on, for example, the PC where I house the server. It also works correct on my Android phone. But it does not work on SHIELD TV anymore. I am so sick of the steady stream of bugs in Plex. I have a relatively enormous amount of time, effort, money, etc. invested in Plex, and I keep hoping there will finally be a version that all the things I like all work correctly. A while back I mentioned that the OLD INTERFACE became so broken it was unusable, which forced me to the NEW INTERFACE. (Old news.) The other day, in attempt to see if the CHAPTER SELECTION problem still worked in the OLD INTERFACE, I discovered that the OLD INTERFACE toggle isn’t even there anymore. So I am forced to use a product with bugs, and new bugs get invented, e.g., hubs not showing up in the HOME SCREEN correctly anymore. Is there a way I can see the source code; maybe I can help fix some of these bugs. Another recurrent bug is lyrics only sometimes work; very frustrating.
asterisk (*) I put an asterisk next to TV SHOWS because not all TV shows show up! I have multiple TV SHOWS libraries (I do some segregating, but under the hood they’re TV SHOWS). Only one of the TV SHOWS libraries is showing up in the HOME SCREEN, and I had at least one TV show in progress in at least two libraries, but now only one show shows up. That’s it. One TV show in progress (not all of them); and NO movies, and should be 10 (approx.) of them. It’s just new weirdness in Plex that makes me question the quality control of the changes. Plex is really cool; I just wish it wasn’t so prone to bugs and regressions. A year ago (?) using the OLD INTERFACE, all this worked fine. And the CONTINUE WATCHING bug is new in the latest version of Plex; I’ve had 2 in the last couple/few days, and it happened after the second recent “enhancements.”
P.S. If there is a way I could drop back to the previous version of Plex on SHIELD, I would at least get back the CONTINUE WATCHING functionality. AFAIK, there is no way for me to drop back. When I install Plex, I take it on faith it will improve. I have been so wrong about that, and now I have no choice but to install new versions hoping to fix all the recent bugs and regressions. On this last update, instead of fixing the CHAPTER SELECTION problem, it added the CONTINUE WATCHING bug. In a word: ARGH!
P.P.S. I was browsing, and I noticed I reported the CHAPTER SELECTION bug/regression more than a year ago in this rant.
