Thank you for acknowledging, @McWanke, and for being gracious about it.
But just to be clear, the inconveniences are much deeper than just being unable to download smart playlists. There’s also the download size bug, there’s the inexplicable inability to play certain content (that plays on the web version on mobile just fine) with inscrutable error messages, the unintuitive navigation, the various UI jank, the overly sensitive screen rotation stuttering, the fact that playing a title doesn’t preferentially use the downloaded version if it’s available, the need to engage in seemingly endless manual retries when downloads fail (rather than its automatically retrying), the fact that when connected to Android Auto, it no longer registers as a media player, so Android Auto controls (eg, pause/play) don’t work, and probably quite a bit more that I’m forgetting right now.
I still love Plex, and I’m likely to continue using it, but I’ve been so disappointed with the mobile app experience, especially the new one. As a technologist, I understand the desire to rebuild things from the ground up, rather than trying to make incremental improvements (as well as the reasons to do one versus the other in various contexts), but it doesn’t seem that this has gone especially well–at least not for me and my use of Plex.
I sure do hope that all the various bugs will eventually be squashed and that the experience exceeds the previous versions’ before too long.
