It pains me to read people’s frustrations and expressions of feeling ripped off. I have been a “Plexer” coming up on 7 years (or it may be 6). When i joined and paid my $59 US for my LTPP I barely knew how to set my mom’s VCR clock (I put black tape over the flickering 12:00 and told her it was broken). I spent umteem hours of fumbling myself through port settings, Library setup’s and so much more. I can recall 3-4 updates back in the day that mucked things up leaving me spinning. The there was the incident where I was formatting a new drive but choose the wrong “letter” and proceeded to vipe my 900+ movies off.
The reason I am posting this and the reason I stuck with Plex and still will is: When I have faced a problem that I was not able to solve, I have always been flooded with offers to help, advise and suggestions. Heck a kind fellow Plexer from the UK remote connected my my server and spent hours fixing and tweaking.
Yes , as of late there has been updates that now require me to hit the remote an extra time or spots a design that deserve a “Whaaaaaat”. BUT will it be bad enough for me to get on my soap box and yell to the masses that I am leaving and who’s with me (Reminds of of that movie with the scientology guy and the whiny eyed woman)…Naaaaahhhhh. If my wife buys a purple and orange dress that looks like Larch’s vomit should I ask for the big D?..
I love you guys and love my Pserver called “ClausFlix” It would take an announcement that Sony has bought Plex before I would say Where is that train you are talking aboot…
@Iarn: if it hasn’t been too long you may be able to get a prorated refund.
If you don’t mind me asking, what were the things that became more complicated and are thus pushing you away fro Plex?
I know a few users have been hitting this thread claiming it is a waste of time and people should just quietly move on. But I think @jungwirth and @cayars make an excellent, much better, argument for keeping the discussion going: how is a company to know that they are doing something wrong and exactly what that is if its customers simply leave without saying a word?
If everyone did that, then Plex wouldn’t know until they run their churn numbers. Depending on how often they run them and the criteria they use, it may be too late by the time they realize they have a problem… and even then churn numbers usually don’t reveal the root cause of the problem.
I really like Plex but I’m in the process of moving to Emby. The sole reason is I have an HD Homerun and can’t have muliple EPG’s. I use schedules direct currently to create an xmltv file but it is nowhere near perfect.
OMFG thought with SEVERAL hours of not receiving email about new post to this thread that it was FINALLY locked. no such luck though. that said still loving plex MUCH more than emby. only have one request, and that is to PLEAAAAAASE break long threads like this into multiple pages with say no more than 40 post per page. i know it can be done cause i visit a lot of sites that have switched to this forum software and they all have their threads start a new page after x amount of post. thanks
One long thread was one of the reason Plex went with this software. They thought it was much better then the “page” approach of previous forum software.
not trying to be rude but i personally don’t like having to waste time scrolling all the way back up to the top of a thread like i had to do with the pmp thread to get to the download links for the new appimage release. it would of taken all of a second to click on page one and be taken there instead of 30 seconds of scrolling or more. like i said that’s just my personal opinion and taste.
Won’t solve all of the problems with the long threads, but you can get to the top by clicking on the title of the thread, or the first date link on the right hand side. I think there’s a keyboard shortcut too, but it seems it didn’t work for me when I tried.
Favorite kind of people. Sees thread that ‘screams’ negativity, clicks it anyway, then commences to complain about complainers. Classic internet stupidity.
He did not call anyone stupid and it wasn’t personal. He simply stated what he thought was a stupid thing to do. Granted the message would have had the same meaning if he left out the last word.
Is he wrong about complaining about complainers? It’s ironic isn’t it?
Jeeze, now I’m complaining about those who take offence to those who complain about the complainers. LOL
So by your logic someone can’t call an action stupid and you want the post removed, but you can tell someone to shut up? This comes just a few message after dane22’s reminder to keep the thread friendly.
Yes, it’s a home environment. and yes, it’s an industrial grade setup.
I’ve been running Linux since '93. I got the machine as cheap surplus and I came on the distro because it’s used extensively at my workplace. I prefer rpm based distros and I also prefer to avoid systemd. It’s getting harder and harder.
The rpm for 1.15 (even the latest) is demanding GLIBC_2.14 and systemd. 1.14 didn’t do that
Well, like I said, you piqued my curiosity, so I setup a couple of Scientific Linux servers. One with version 6.10 (Carbon) and the other with version 7.6 (Nitrogen).
With version 7.6 both Emby (v 4.0.1) and Plex (1.14.1) work just fine. I have not tried plex 1.15.0 just yet.
I expected 7.6 to work “out of the box” since it comes with GLIBC 2.17.
On version 6.10 is where things get complicated since it comes with GLIBC 2.12 and version 2.14 is the minimum required.
So I downloaded the glibc-2.14 tarball from gnu.org, compiled and installed it. I have not yet had a chance to re-try installing Emby and Plex.
I’ve tried swapping out glibc in the past and it get’s extremely nasty… EVERYTHING is built against it. That said, I’ve done it olden times when everything was a source tarball, but it still wasn’t a whole lot of fun and took days to recompile everything.
