Thank you for this
Did Skip into, skip autoplay, and no countdown timer all get removed from Plex for Samsung TV? My app reset last night and all the new features are removed, Now the only device I have with these new features is my FireStick.
Any Update when this might reach TvOS?
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Sorry I do not have an ETA. Apple playback team is working on some playback bugs first before working on those new Player Experience features
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Has this hit tvOS for Apple devices yet? Any ETA when Apple players will be able to play things continuously without interruptions?
It really sucks that this is defaulted to 15 seconds and behind a paywall. As a new plex user this feels more like the experience is being intentionally degraded unless you pay the monthly fee. It should be defaulted to autoplay like every other media player.
Edit: Apparently a direct reply to an employeeâs comment in this thread, directly relating to the autoplay feature is not a good fit for the topic of continous autoplay.
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This has never been an issue for me at all since Iâve used Roku/Plex for YEARSâŠbut it always annoyed me that it wouldnât work other than Roku (in case) I moved to another player⊠I mean, thatâs literally the MOST important thing for me is for me to start something and it keeps playing until I stop it⊠I think 99% of the time my TV is on Iâm using PlexâŠnot some other app⊠At this point I rarely ever stream anything⊠I start an episode of my favorite show, put auto play on) go to bed sleeping with it on⊠and wake up and itâs still playing⊠have coffee⊠open laptop ⊠check weather, news⊠etc⊠look at Twitter⊠still playing in background (havenât touched it)⊠I almost feel like if there were no way to autoplay I totally wouldnât even use it⊠It would become useless to me almost⊠Before I discovered plex⊠I had a media player that would connect to a hard drive and to the TVâŠ
And PLEX has realized this and put this feature behind a paywall.
I have an issue with a feature like this in the first place - putting the 2 hour time limit on without an easy way to turn it off is just disrespectful. Itâs saying, âWe know whatâs good for you.â So I found the inability to change that 2 hour limit (and to change the delay between episodes) very much like nanny features.
I was glad to see this was resolved, but I use TVOS and iOS - and 8 months after itâs fixed, I am still waiting for it to make its way to Apple devices.
That, coupled with a few other issues (like having set the tabs to be remembered between uses, but still having some libraries ALWAYS coming up with Recommended instead of the tab I prefer - which is a new issue) have put me back into looking for other solutions other than Plex.
I know a lot of people say, âFix this or I stop paying for the TV guide or anything else,â Iâm not trying to put it that way, but I am saying treating Apple users as 2nd tier users is making me seriously consider if Plex is the solution for me.
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make the 2 hour timer customize-able from disabled to perhaps 8 hours
What two hour timer? I do not remember seeing one in my usage of Plex.
When watching TV in shuffle mode, auto-play will just stop after 2 hours if no user interaction happens, meaning you have to click continue.
@hendrockj said:
When watching TV in shuffle mode, auto-play will just stop after 2 hours if no user interaction happens, meaning you have to click continue.
Oh, I see. I never use auto-play in any form so I guess this will never impact me. There needs to be a third choice in your poll: Donât care. That would be my choice.
Itâs a silly feature, I thought it was a bug until i checked the forums. It really needs to be an option.
I need more votes. Iâm not sure how anyone else uses Plex, but we used it to replace all of our television service into one package. How many people really hit the button on their remote that often? I clicked on TV shows, then shuffle, and it would play for all of my content for days. I donât want to go find the remote and hit a button every 2 hours. Just leave it play. Make a sleep timer for those that wanted that feature. Plex is the only entertainment option we had in our house. It replaced everything. We used it on 2 Apple TVâs, 3 iPhones, a Vizio TV, and iPad, and on 2 laptops. Now all of that is broken. I had a laptop mounted in the boat that connected to Plex, and TV shows just played to entertain our guests. No one wants to drop what they are doing and go press a button. Itâs ridiculous. Please fix this ASAP. As for the 15 second timer between, eh, it sucks, but it is livable. The 2 hour thing is not. Itâs horrible.
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I like to just have the TV play in the background. Donât want to babysit it. Would love to at least have an option to change 2 hours to something ridiculously high (96), just so itâll keep playing.
I can definitely add my vote on this as well. My wife and I like to have movies play all night. Honestly itâs the one feature keeping us from just buying the lifetime pass at this point. Everything else Plex does is exactly what we were after.
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Yes, please. I can to some small extent agree with a feature like this with internet streaming services due to a lot of countries and some local providers in the USA having data caps, but if this is âMYâ plex server streaming internally on my network why am i forced to have this insanely stupid option when i just want to play a show all night while i sleep like i used to be able to do⊠If people want to allow remote access then have an option to turn this on or tune the time out, but the forceful nature of this update for something i pay for as a plex pass member none the less is unacceptable.
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