Everything should play until I stop it thanks very much.
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How is this still not solved?
What roadblocks are you encountering along the way?
@elan
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Why has this stop play not been removed from plex this is so annoying. Remove it or make an option to turn it off. We want continuous play this has gone on long enough.
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Hey PPLâŠkeep this goingâŠ
Sent an email to plex support and requested a statement. We may have to bother them long enough until we finally get an answer. i donât care if itâs âyes, we bring this backâ or a plain ânoâ.
We will know where we stand as customers with both answers.
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Would NEVER have purchased a plex pass if i had known this. I either want this feature or my money back so that i can move on to another solution.
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Can someone update me on which players have continuous autoplay other than Roku? I know Roku worksâŠdoes autoplay NOT work on every single other Plex player?.. Like TV appsâŠfirestickâŠN Shield⊠etc? I still can not believe this is still the case after all these yearsâŠ
You can create playlists and those play continuously without stopping, and they donât even have the countdown timer until the next episode. They just play one after the other.
They still time out after two hours of inactivity no mater what. playlist or not.
I do not have that problem at all, on any of my devices. My server version is 1.29.2.6364 (Edited because I previously put my PMP version instead of server version). I have 2 Rokuâs, 2 Samsung TVs (different generations), a LG TV and 2 PCs with Plex Media Player and they all will play playlists until there is no more media to play, or there is a network issue or something. They do not just stop playing. I only run into playback stopping if you just play episodes directly from within the show pages, they will stop playing after 4 or 5 episodes, but playlists do not.
OK good to know because playlists are super easy to create and delete. I have several permanent playlistsâŠNow my Roku will actually LOOP a playlist if I want it toâŠmeaning when it gets to the end it will start the playlist over again IF you start the playlist with the main play button and then click repeatâŠotherwise it wonât work. But I rarely loop a playlistâŠ
I hate making posts simply to say I quit but I feel in this case itâs warranted. Iâve been a paying user for roughly 5 years now, this post has been alive for nearly just as long and the silence on this issue is ridiculous. It was a completely asinine decision to even implement the auto-stop in the first place without giving the user some kind of option to choose for themselves and its obvious the dev team just doesnât care to be bothered with a solution that works for everyone. The playlist work around doesnât work for me anymore and at this point I really donât care to try and figure out why. Iâve done some looking around and it seems jellyfin is just as good as plex and obviously in this instance itâs even better as continuous play works. Iâve enjoyed plex these past years but if the devs donât care to address a 4 year old issue then whats the point of sticking around.
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Iâve worked at a lot of places that made decisions like this one â putting off what looked like an obvious and easy update. It was rarely the result of a team that didnât care. I have been the guy youâd most want to accuse for missing and broken stuff. Most people DO care a lot. They just cannot make positive change happen for many reasons outside their control.
In my experience there are usually three reasons for something like this happening.
One, there may be a specific decision maker at the company who simply does not agree with the idea, so they kill it. Maybe they are a nut, but they are the nut in charge!
Two, the way the team prioritizes tasks is such that the issue never makes it onto anyoneâs to-do list because there are always bigger fish to fry. âBut they did a video game feature, what do you mean they canât make time?â Well, we donât know how the team is built and how responsibilities are shared. There might be one person who officially can work on a particular feature, and maybe they are always busy with stuff that really is more important.
Three, there might be some horrible tech debt that makes touching that system difficult or even impossible. Imagine having a feature thatâs so fragile and hacked together that you can never update unless you commit to re-doing it entirely⊠So you ignore it, and just prop it up when it falls over, because there is never time to fix it properly.
I donât know whatâs going on at Plex and I am not accusing them of any of these dysfunctions. These are just examples of why I have seen groups of mostly good people doing bad things.
Plex does a lot of really good work. They ship new stuff all the time. And they do listen to us⊠I have seen @elan respond to a bug report and check in a fix the same day, which is awesome. Their overall competence and occasional home runs in features and communications makes the lack of response to small issues like this confusing.
The other day, someone 'round here said they ought to do away with feature voting. I agree. Plex is obviously doing things their own way, and I think the voting system sets unrealistic expectations among us.
Anyway, I donât think you are wrong to be upset. We all want different things. If another app suits you better Iâll never scold you for bailing out. This is commercial software, not a cult.
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IMHO a timeout by default is OK, but allowing users to change that parameter would be great.
Currently, Iâm working on Android mobile, trying to watch shows, but thereâs no autoplay feature visibly available, and the episodes stop one-after-another.
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This really needs to be fixed by now. Its really the only reason i am looking to alternatives now. plex seems to be too busy trying to keep pushing out features no one wants most can be easily ignored but this issue drives me crazy.
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Any update on this? Funny enough my issue is the exact thing they are trying to prevent. I play TV shows I know well on repeat while I sleep. When it stops I wake up. One of the shows I watch disappeared from Netflix (which does allow continous playback through a whole series) so now Iâm watching it on Plex and my sleep is suffering.
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Just go to PlexâŠgo to the show and add that show to a playlistâŠshould add every episode⊠If there are some episodes you donât want⊠just edit them out of the playlistâŠgo to the playlist and start it and it should play all the way throughâŠ
Playlists are easy to create and delete⊠I have like 60 playlists but they are permanent for meâŠ
Iâve heard from others that this will workâŠI canât stay for sure because all I have are RokuâsâŠwhich doesnât suffer from not having autoplayâŠ
hopefully that will help because at this point they are obviously not going to do anything about it⊠at least there is that workaround
Thereâs also ways around with with Plexâs extensibility, no(such as with ErsatzTV)? That could also put off work on a new feature.
Where I work, a simple product change that could be 4 hours of coding and basic unit testing by a single programmer ends up being 40+hours of work between QA, the tech writer, and the various approvals and downstream testing/product teams before a change is pushed to prod/client facing. That means something else is getting deprioritized, as you say.
Good point, another possibility is that there is just a ton of overhead for some reason. The reasons could be wise or wacky.
Stop driving your customers away and reverse this change.
I shouldnât be looking at alternatives just so I can hit play and it actually play.
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