Let’s please stay on topic.
Rants → #general:lounge or in the respective category
“Why isn’t Plex developing this?” → Please Read: Before submitting a feature Suggestion
TL;DR: it’s suggestions; Plex considers many when developing their product… observably not all.
How many features have 1000’s of votes/customer support yet after years they are still not sorted.
multitudes of 1000s (2000+) → 2
suggestions w/ 1000+ votes in total → 6
So y’all just aren’t going to do this, huh? Amazing.
Edit: For those who’ve considered jumping to Emby… I’ve also learned that it will play my shows when my internet is down all day long… and I don’t have to scour the articles and instructions that never actually let plex do that for me.
Plex should implement this very simple feature. Make the variable global and add it to the UI.
I’ve given up hope that this will ever come back.
What is even more pathetic IMO is that it is a strict “timer” that is set when you start playing an episode - that timer doesn’t pause, etc. when you pause playback. So if you start a show, pause it, walk away for a few hours, come back and resume the show, when that episode is over, autoplay stops.
After many happy years using my tablet to play TV episodes in the background whilst I slept, I had to upgrade to a new device and have come across this issue.
I can now no longer use the device in the same way as I am woken in the early hours by silence and it appears that I’ve wasted my money buying a new one just to use with Plex.
Massively disappointed. Please give me back the option of a continuous playlist or at least tell me which version of the app this was introduced in so that I can seek out an apk of the earlier version?
Have to add my voice to this. Personally, I don’t care about it. But my fiancee sure does. She likes to sleep with the TV on, usually classic TV or cartoons. Like a few on here I’ve been getting occasional links from her with “-insert other media player- doesn’t do this. Why are we still on Plex?” Yes, I could (maybe not now?) do playlists, but that’s not the point. The point is to make it easy.
Maybe something that can be answered here: is this a process or a development challenge? Is it because there’s just no way to implement this? Or is this a process decision somewhere along the way?
I’m ok if Plex comes back and says “ok, we have no idea how to do this, sorry.” At least at that point, I know. I can make my decisions from there. If it’s process related, that’s a little different.
I think your course of action should be the same in either case: don’t wait for the feature, figure out Plan B.
Very helpful 
Sadly this is a process decision. Autoplay didn’t always stop after ~2 hours.
Still pretty sad after all this time Plex continues to ignore its users.
Three years after this feature was asked for and repeatedly requested by those of us who have paid for this software, you still refuse to put in a simple on/off toggle in the settings to enable or disable continuous playback. This isn’t software for you to use, it’s a software for US to use. Software that we have paid for and software that we have requested multiple times for a very simple feature to be implemented. I would love for a developer to chime in and say once and for all why this isn’t being done and sticky/close this thread. I mean, it’s gotta be an incredibly good reason…
Edit: Never-mind. I fixed this myself in 17 minutes. Emby installed and running.
Can someone clarify something for me…I don’t have this issue with Roku ultra’s which is all we use in our house. But I do have a firestick and the Plex TV apps…all have this feature where you can turn repeat all or repeat one on or off, but it only works on the Roku’s…any other player I’ve tried, even though the feature is there, it does not work…I don’t have shield or apple…is this the same case with these as well? I was thinking about getting a shield but if autoplay doesn’t work, forget it.
I think it’s obvious that Plex management hasn’t implemented this intentionally.
Plex is no longer a company who’s business is selling people a good home media server. Plex is now a company who’s business is selling it’s users data.
Plex wants to know what we ACTIVELY watch. They don’t want viewing statistics muddled by content you slept through.
This is the same reason why Plex forces client apps to login through Plex company servers, so that our viewing data can be collected. Client apps use to have the option to manually specify the server IP and avoid Plex the company.
Face it Plex despises their users, and it’s so evident from the Plex Team members who occasionally and quite reluctantly respond to users on this forum.
I pray to God that Jellyfin development moves along faster so that it’s viable enough for Plex users to abandon this rotting corpse of a platform.
Let’s stick to discussing this particular feature suggestion and refrain from passing on wild accusations or theories on how Plex is evil. That’s leading nowhere except turning this thread toxic.
Gentle reminder on the forum guidelines:
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines#heading---civil
I didn’t say Plex was ‘evil’, that’s your interpretation.
1 thing is clear, this request is over 3 years old, and it is such an easy fix to implement, that it’s hard to fathom any other reason it’s not done other than Plex Management doesn’t want to.
It’s also a fact that Plex gathers and collects user viewing analytics as stated by the Plex CEO himself years ago:
https://m.slashdot.org/story/330239
Finding out how to opt out is so well hidden most people don’t know it’s an option:
Here again it’s stated that Plex is collecting A LOT
of user analytics.
You should occasionally read the privacy policy or what data is collected by the likes of Google, Netflix & Co… that should give some perspective on what you perceive to be “a lot”.
In anyway… this doesn’t change my original point:
Please don’t get off topic; in particular not when it comes to feature suggestions.
Feel free to have a separate thread to rant or stay on topic if you want to contribute to the suggestion at hand.
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Yes let’s not get sidetracked by ‘whataboutism’ to justify Plex’s bad behavior.
At this point with 3+ years and 200+ posts, let’s not lose focus. If we lose focus this issue may not remain a top priority for the Plex Team.
Problem: ‘continuous’ play stops after ~2hours
Solutions:
Keep waiting for a feature that use to work, and that Plex has failed to fix after more than 3 years, and that there is no clear indication that they intend to fix.
Create a playlist for any content that you actually want to play ‘continuously’
Look at other media servers that better serve their users in this case:
A) Jellyfin: https://jellyfin.org
B) Emby: https://emby.media
C) Kodi: https://kodi.tv
Kodi is not a media server, but it does have plug-ins, including one for Plex where correct me if I’m wrong ‘continuous’ play actually works.
Wow, I read this entire thread, Christ!
This ‘feature request’ was made on November 18th, 2018.
620 Days later on July 20th, 2020, CTO and Co-founder Elan chimes in with the companies response:
Continuous Autoplay - #70 by elan?
Another 539 Days later and here we are.
For a split second when I saw the company response, and then the name ‘Elan’, the thought popped in my mind “well there’s the problem he’s too busy running Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and the Boring Company”. But then I remembered that’s Elon with an ‘o’.
So then I thought ahh well maybe he doesn’t work at Plex anymore. I Googled Elan CTO Cofounder of Plex, and I see his last Twitter Post “Fu*k COVID”.
https://twitter.com/leafmuncher?s=09
He’s still got the Plex CTO title below his name so still at the company, nice!
@elan Any update?
This doesn’t relate to Plexamp, so don’t hold your breath waiting for a response from Elan.
You don’t really need to be that obnoxious.
I’ll ask!
