I wonder which ones of these feature requests are being worked on?

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I pulled a big chunk of the feature requests with the most votes. I grabbed 164. Of those 22 were marked as done. 13%. These are the top 50 that are still not done although some of them have a workaround, are in process, or are almost there.

Google home integration - 2460 votes
PLEXREADER: Comics, Books, PDFs - 2224 votes
Support for audiobooks - 1419 votes
Better Playlists (+Share Playlists) - 1409 votes
Multiple Cuts Of Movie - 1385 votes (I use local media assets for this)
Send server messages - 932 votes
Playback Speed - 779 votes
ID3 Tag support for ROBUST music library organization - 648 votes
Add support for AMDā€™s Video Core Next encoding - 621 votes
Multiple epg sources, for those with multiple tuners - 605 votes
Alias instead of plex.tv usernames - 567 votes
Automatic subtitle synchronisation - 564 votes
TV Series DVD Special Features / Extras (Behind The Scenes, Interviews, Trailers etcā€¦) - 516 votes (coming with new scanner)
PseudoTV - 472 votes
Control subtitles on a per-series basis - subtitles472 votes
Ipv6 support for myplex - 440 votes
Rename + Reorder Channels in LiveTV - 437 votes
HEIC/HEIF support in photo libraries (new photo format for iPhones) - 431 votes
Show names for audio tracks and subtitles - 421 votes (there in some views but not all)
ā€˜Tandem Playbackā€™ to several clients - 413 votes
Chromecast Live TV - 399 votes
Correctly identify & display Dolby Atmos, dts:X, and dts-HD MA audio tracks in Plex clients - 373 votes
Hardware Accelerated Decode (Nvidia) for Linux - 364 votes
Plex App for Nintendo Switch (And other Nintendo systems) - 363 votes
Default All Clients to Max Internet Streaming - 352 votes
ā€œShare Movieā€ Link for People without MyPlex Accounts with optional expiration date - 331 votes
Full Trakt Integration - 327 votes
Buffer main movie during Pre-roll - 317 votes
Add TV Everywhere to Live TV Dvr - 311 votes
Bring internet radio stations into Plex - 284 votes
Option for semi-persistent automatic skip intro - 271 votes
Philips Hue Integration - 265 votes
Recommend server content (not just queued) - 253 votes
Integrate the direct (non FUSE, etc.) connection to storage providers from Plex Cloud into PMS - 250 votes
Alternate [external] Audio Tracks - 247 votes
Transcode to HEVC/x265 - 247 votes
Is Anyone at Plex looking at doing something like MoviesAnywhere.com? - 246 votes
Delete poster - 226 votes
Allow Plex media server to sleep/wake properly including DVR recordings - 222 votes
Skill for French - 221 votes
A more user friendly UI - 217 votes
Better internet streaming using multiple parallel connections (or threads). - 208 votes
Disable 4K Transcoding - 208 votes
Please enable ā€˜Use embedded tagsā€™ in Photo libraries - 206 votes
Continuous Autoplay - 200 votes
Support Alternate Order / Flexible Seasons (TVDB) and Episode Groups (TMDB) - 99 votes
Lyrics always visible when song starts - 189 votes
Auto-delete watched episodes from ALL series (or as bulk action) - 188 votes
Force Pre-Roll Vdeos on remote users! - 184 votes
Apple Watch Client App Request - 182 votes

Some of those guys at the top have been around for a LONG time.
Google home integration - June 2018
PLEX reader pdfs - Jan 2013 (over 8 years)
Audio Books - Jan 2013 (over 8 years)
Better Playlists - Aug 2014
Send server messages - Nov 2012 (coming up on 8 and a half years)

When you have your top requests sitting in limbo for over EIGHT YEARS, it kind of makes the whole ā€˜vote for what you wantā€™ thingie a joke. Audio book support has over 1,400 votes and all it would take is album level resume and we can do it. Thatā€™s it. Prologue can do it but you canā€™t?

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Most of us turn up on Election day, with promises ringing in our eyes. Years go by often the same old issues or policy to change. Guess what Politics are much the same, sounds very similar does it not.
Donā€™t despair, one day, it just might happen.

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But hey you can now play old Atari games via Plex :stuck_out_tongue: People always (never) wished for that!

Or they see it like with the car: Nobody wished for that at the time of the horse carriage. Plex knows what we really want.
Sorry, Iā€™m very frustrated around the support and transparency around the development of Plex.

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I understand why PLEX wonā€™t tell us what they are working on. I work for a software company and we donā€™t tell people that for a really good reason. Until we know it works, we donā€™t want to promise anyone that it is coming. You donā€™t want to tell your customers that you are doing X next only to find out that for who knows what, you canā€™t DO X. Dang.

But when something has been on the board for over 8 years, you are either NOT working on it (then tell us) or you canā€™t do it (tell us). Nothing takes over 8 years of development.

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I suppose at some point itā€™s getting hard to shut down a request with many votes ā€¦ keeping it in limbo vs. giving users the finality of a ā€žnoā€œ might just feel less harsh: ā€žmaybe sometimeā€œ

Looking at that listā€¦ I guessed thereā€™s a number of items that certainly wonā€™t happen (but Iā€™m biased and hope Plex wonā€™t waste resources on some of the ones Iā€™m not particularly interested in) :innocent:

TL;DR: in the end itā€™ll all come down to what you can find in this thread/post: itā€™s suggestions and Plex may or may not consider them

side note: the list has a flaw as implemented suggestions have been archived and users tend to reallocate their votes once an item is done. That doesnā€™t mean you donā€™t have a pointā€¦ itā€™s just missing a Part of the equation :nerd_face:

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