@cayars said:
I can’t say I’d disagree with that quote 
I’m glad 
. But disappointed that it comes to mind so often with Plex.
@cayars said:
Sometimes we assume to much. As a hypothetical example if a feature was created/fixed by an employee on their own time because it’s something they like/wanted is this a bad thing it’s shared with everyone especially when some other people request it? Sometimes some things come about this way. That is even one of the focus points if I understand correctly behind Plex Labs.
Ok, but at the same time we have third-party software created by plex employees, and this software is used by waaaaay more people than those who would use VR - and this one’s functionality is not being integrated into PMS. And it should. That kind of choice was clearly made by someone who’s not aware of the community.
@cayars said:
Well it’s not a whiff and fully works now and is being added to the other clients that don’t already support it.
The fact that it works doesn’t mean it works as it should . For example - you can use TMDb collections data, the FAQ claims that “This may cause many unwanted collections to be automatically created, particularly collections where you only have one item.” I don’t believe there’s no way of preventing that. For example - they could give the admin the ability to set the minimum required number of items to create a collection. If we don’t have some kind of way to automate things like that, then we basically got tags and a fancy way of presenting them .
@cayars said:
They are certainly not ignoring us and have been spending a large portion of time on enhancements that have been asked for here in the forums.
But the appearance suggests otherwise. Because, if we don’t get any info about the plans and suddenly we get hit with an announcement about a feature nobody asked for and only handful would even try to use, then people assume that you don’t even listen to them.
@cayars said:
But what some of you don’t realize is that some of these are foundation or first/intro pieces of better things to come using the same technology.
Some have a purpose beyond what is apparent right now at present. They are foundation pieces to be built on for even better things to come.
Please, help us realize . We don’t “realize” because Plex Inc keeps everyone in the dark. And that “wait and maybe you’ll see” approach is really discouraging.
@stefanvanruiten said:
@cayars said:
@stefanvanruiten said:
I’d rather see a half working htpc client with a decent UI and Linux support after all these years then news, plexamp or VR to be honest.
What do you mean? You already have one of the best Plex clients available on LINUX and it’s open source to boot. PMP is sort of a flag ship client.
Well after 2 years the PMP UI is still kinda sucky (…)
I agree. For example - I don’t like the way they “attempted” to get rid of server selection. And yes, I say “attempted” because they didn’t really.
Let’s say someone has multiple libraries with shows ( for example, with metadata language as the only difference ) - they have to select the specific library anyway (and with that, a specific server ). Otherwise, they’ll most likely get metadata from a different library (and different language) than they actually desired.
There should be an ability to select multiple metadata languages for libraries - that way the user could select their default and there would be no need to select a specific library (that would remove some clutter and eliminate the need to scan files for each library.
And if a user selected to play the item that’s present on multiple servers, it could be presented like “Play version” feature but with server names alongside version details (after all, we have to take into account the possibility that multiple servers could have multiple versions of the same item).
I’m rambling. I know 
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Plex Inc should ask for the community opinion more often. And actually listen to it . . .
(I’m not talking about another roundtables - I didn’t see any conclusions drawn from those.)
