Devil’s advocacy:
Plex should prioritize adding features, attracting new users, and inventing new ways to generate revenue.
Which can be put toward development and testing budgets!
Thus supporting bigger teams, happy smart devs, and - obviously - bug fixes.
(Obviously I’m just trying to flatter my favorite devs, so they fix my pet issues, of course.)
Such a simp 
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I have little to no issues now with the Plex ecosystem. If it’s broke for you then change how you use it.
I’m literally posting through tears right now.
Never said I was 100% happy with the service. I hit issues too. The difference is I post detailed information about them and work with people to solve my problems which makes me, all in all, relatively happy about the service. I also strive to give back assistance to others, sharing what I’ve learned and hopefully being helpful (Sorry, not the aim in this thread).
Sorry, I didn’t know I was forbidden to state my opinion here…
It’s called having time, caring, and multitasking. Look into it!
With this I 100% agree! (<- see what I did there? 
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I never said that Mr. Kettle…
Indeed, I find that when one side digresses attempting to shut up the other guy by bullying him, saying he must not have a life if he’s posting here more than once a day, essentially trying to shut down and cancel somebody rather than engage in a spirited debate about the issues and opinions, in my mind, they have conceded that their viewpoint lacks merit.
I have the best advice don’t deny it.
You mean like that?
If you’re going to call people illogical, unreasonable, a troll, or complainer for starting their opinion I’m not sure you’re in a strong position to lecture other people about bullying
If you have opinions about Plex you’d like to voice that’s fine. Your opinions about my opinions are none of my business
That’s a good example of how my opinion would differ from yours. I would never say something like that after I started almost 50 different threads here with all the problems I’ve had
Did you need to know my opinion on that? Probably not huh
Yes, if you’re not satisfied with a product or served then take your money and leave. It’s like that for every business in a free market system. Do you mean you didn’t know that?
Sorry, but in my book, when people state their illogical, unreasonable opinions, etc., then calling a spade a spade is a correct thing to do. Now if you wish to argue with me that it’s logical to demand that all issues are fixed before implementing anything else, a feat that no software has managed to achieve, then by all means go for it. Otherwise, my statement stands correct, it’s an illogical opinion to hold. In fact, I’d argue that it’s merely an emotional standpoint, pretty much devoid of logic. And when posters use such hyperbole, provide no evidence of their problems, and just seem to want to ■■■■■, sorry, but again in my book that’s a troll as his actions are not one to get resolution but merely to get a rise out of people and vent. YMMV… mine doesn’t!
I don’t think there is any business being conducted here.
Again, sorry you have had problems. I don’t understand, given such problems you say you have, why you are here? You should be long gone! Take your money and buy a better product more suited to your needs. You’re only wasting your money here if you are that unsatisfied.
You can state your opinion or don’t state it. It’s nothing that I need nor really care about. I’m sorry you’ve had such problems but I kinda think you often have such problems and I wonder why…
No, I’m saying I would never have said what you did IF I had created almost 50 different topics for problems I had.
YOU are the one who created almost 50, NOT me.
I’m pretty sure you didn’t open 48 topics all about the one hour you spent upgrading your server
That doesn’t count all the other threads you joined for issues you had that someone else started.
It seems a bit disingenuous and maybe you’re here just because you saw an opportunity to argue with someone.
Does that look familiar? You were fighting with a different screen name named herman_munster in that thread too
Coincidence? Or is that reason you came in here on attack mode?
Oh and since you keep suggesting it, I have a lifetime Plex Pass, so taking my money elsewhere isn’t really an option
Does leaving Plex sound like a good suggestion now that you know you were referring to yourself?
Probably doesn’t sound as helpful when you hear it, as when you say it
I’m not sure what your beef is nor why you seem to have a hard-on for me. Do I post when I’ve had a problem? Sure. Do such problems get resolved? Absolutely (but not 100%). So what? Overall Plex suits my needs and I’m happy with it. This is my opinion coming from my brain, something you foolish think you know better than I do. But you can’t. And apparently, you are unwilling to accept my word for it. Sounds to me like that’s your problem.
As for the other thread, I consistently stated the same thing, that Plex is OK for most people and it’s too bad you are having problems. But to me, walking into a room, throwing a hand grenade in there, and leaving, which is essentially what that guy (and this guy) did is trollish. Do you have problems with Plex and want to complain? Great. At least state the nature of your problems. I might say “Yeah that sucks, I see your point”. I may also say “I had a similar problem and fixed it by X, Y and Z” or “I never had that problem” or “I understand that problem but I don’t personally use that particular aspect of Plex”. But if you don’t explain yourself I’m gonna think and say you’re just a troll.
Psstt you can still leave and go elsewhere, even if you bought a lifetime pass. You just made a poor decision and have already spent the money. Happens all the time. But why waste your time with the product you don’t like and waste your time on these forums? Just trying to get your money’s worth? I can respect that. But you might be better suited to chalk it up as a loss and move along.
“Does leaving Plex sound like a good suggestion now that you know you were referring to yourself?” ← doesn’t make sense. Where was I referring to myself? I still maintain that if you are unhappy with the product then stop using it and go elsewhere. As I said several times in this thread that I am happy with the product overall and I will stay. But then again it’s YOU not me who knows my real motivation so please, tell me what I mean again…
All I can say is DILLIGAS!
BTW A few of those posts were about how to troubleshoot a remote user’s problem accessing my Plex server which turned out to be very much the remote user’s problem, NOT a problem with Plex software at all! Just because post something, even a question, it does NOT follow that the problem was in Plex’s software. Indeed, some of them were also my own errors/confusion with how Plex works or networking issues that were my fault, not Plex’s. One of them was getting Plex to run in a Docker container so as to use HW transcoding on my Synology. I worked hard with ChuckPA about permissions problems with Synology which again had nothing to do with Plex really. So pointing out how many times I posted things is really disengenuous on your part.
You argue just to argue and disagree with people when there’s not a significant difference in how you actually feel. I’m not saying I’m in your head. I’m reading YOUR OWN WORDS
For the most part I am happy with Plex and not sorry that I paid for a lifetime pass
I mentioned the FEW issues I had so again…I’m not exactly sure what you’re reading
You’re the one who pretends to be in my head somehow knowing that I’m extremely dissatisfied with Plex. I didn’t say anything even remotely close to that and no one else did either
The things I mentioned are also in many threads all over the site with many people saying the same thing.
INCLUDING YOU attacking employees telling them they aren’t doing their job right
If I was the only one with these issues I wouldn’t waste my time bringing them up. I’m not important enough for Plex to worry about as an individual and I know that already. You don’t need to explain simple things to people here. If you own Plex there’s a good chance you’re not talking to stupid people. Unless you’re a narcissist of course and we know no one has ever accused you of that.
I am not telling you that you are dissatisfied with Plex because you’ve had problems. I believe you are happy with Plex overall, as am I. I am repeating that just on the off chance you want to write another complaint about how I’m reading your mind.
In my prior posts that you didn’t seem to understand, I was saying is that it’s not an honest or accurate statement to take 50 different issues you’ve posted on and compress them all into “I only had an issue with one update I did”. That’s just you manipulating the conversation so you feel justified arguing with people. It’s phony
There is an ebb and flow to satisfaction with things btw. When things are working, you’re happy and when there’s problems you’re frustrated and angry. You seem to have forgot about all the times you were just as angry as the OP.
If you’re going to run around here and attack everybody who has a complaint or suggestion, you’re going to be a very busy man
https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-support-for-av1-coding-standard/556253
Try that link, you can go tell 200 unhappy people to GTFO of Plex at one time. I’m sure it will make your day
So says you. I disagree. But apparently, you know me better than I know me…
Sorry. I thought you were dissatisfied with Plex. If your not then aren’t you in my camp?
You got it wrong - I’m attacking a person for not doing their job right. They happen to be a Plex employee. Why is that not right? Let me ask you a different question - don’t you think that people who don’t do their job right should be challenged? Shouldn’t they be shown how to do it correctly or at least what’s a better way? Or are you in the school that thinks that incompetence should be ignored?
Sorry but I call a spade a spade and if you don’t like that well… I don’t know what to tell ya.
Then don’t.
That’s too bad…
I know. I don’t need to post either. Then again, neither do you. What’s your point?
That didn’t even make any sense.
Nor am I.
Huh?
What’s phony is your claim that I said I’ve only had one issue with one update. I did give an example of an issue (unrelated to Plex BTW) that I posted regrading Synology update to 7.x and getting the permissions right to illustrate that not all of those 50 posts were issues wth Plex itself! I also offered up another example about a remote user and that problem was also not the fault of Plex or the PMS software - it was a configuration issue of some sort at the remote user’s end. So you pointed out the 50 or so posts I had as if to say I’ve had lots of problems and I pointed out that some of those problems were not software defects in Plex or were my error in configuring Plex itself. I never said I had only one problem nor that I had 50 problems rather that I didn’t have 50 problems with Plex’s software - some of them were my error or another user’s error and not the software itself. Got it now? Then stop putting words into my mouth saying I said I had only one problem - I never said that!
With like 45 years in the business bud, I assure you I’ve had plenty of time when I was fit to be tied as they say. I’ve also been around long enough to realize that that mode of operation is rarely productive. So now, again, I invite the OP to explain his problems in a productive fashion and see if we can’t get him fixed up. Don’t you agree that would be the best course of action?
I am a busy man, but not because of this. Look I don’t bother attacking complainers who at least describe their beef in full and who look like they are actually looking for a solution to their problem. But placate a person who just wishes to b-i-t-c-h and moan and who doesn’t seem to seek a solution? No, I’ll put that s-h-i-t in its proper context. Just complaining for complaining’s sake is dumb, unproductive and deserving of ridicule in my book.
A couple of things wrong here. First off, that post starts off respectfully - a guy asks for a feature to be implemented. I assume it devolved into some b-i-t-c-h fest. Fine. I’m not interested in that. You see you mischaracterize me as just a person who likes attacking others for no reason and yet I stated my reason - to just complain with no interest in resolving your problem to me is worthy of ridicule. That didn’t happen in that thread (and quite frankly, again, I’m just not interested in it).
This is all getting rather childish. The only reason more people haven’t moved to Emby to get the codec support they want is because Emby charges for the Android TV player app. People will either continue to wait, or bite the bullet and switch. I hope both are sucessful. There is plenty of market share to go around. As more streaming services offer free content (Tubi, etc.), even the need to have nedia on a home server is going to shrink.
FWIW, I use Plexamp with Android auto almost every day and have never had it crash on me that I can recall. I used to use it with my Samsung Galaxy A50, now with my Galaxy A53.
One UI Version: 4.1
Android Version: 12
Car is a 2019 Audi A5 Sportback.
