I just go into my library again and find more things where manual individual refreshes are required. They ‘looked’ like they were good, but extra preview data is missing etc. But I’ve already talked about that and I just don’t have the patience to try and explain that AGAIN to the devs. So, I think to myself, I just want the stable one. Now I’m wondering, where exactly is the list of stable versions, what features do they have / don’t they have, what are the dates of the releases and when will the next one be coming (so I can get an understanding of how long I might miss out on features), what extra testing is done to ENSURE it really is stable, and what is the official method for migrating from Plex Pass Unstable channel to the public channel? I believe there is not one and it is not possible without a full library rebuild. Way to go.
And finally I have my doubts if changing to the public channel will make any difference anyway.
I just want my ‘Premium’ Plex Pass enabled membership to work like it’s supposed to. Dig me?
Rant over.
Dude I’m sick of the crap I have to go through with the free version and things that don’t work right or work one day and not the next etc etc. There’s no way in hell I’m paying for a membership.
So you’re saying that the questions that were answered in the this thread, whereby I was told that Public Channel is stable is incorrect? So basically there is no stable channel and basically all of Plex is hit and miss? That’s embarrassing. When you consider the amount of testing resources available Plex Ninja’s plus Plex pass ‘catch all’ then this would mean there’s a testing process problem. Or maybe this is the dark side of devops…
I’m not trying to disrespect the huge amount of work that’s gone into plex by any means, but seriously this kind of thing completely undermines that good work and it’s making me grumpy. I’m considering trying Kodi again - though last time I used that it was showing it’s full open source pitfalls at the time. But then it was XBMC and things change. Honestly I think even with these issues I’d rate Plex higher. The problem is you can’t downgrade. How do you know if ANY new version will work even if it’s a stable version? There just doesn’t seem to be a proper concept of stable here.
I’m setting up Kodi now. I’m done with Plex. Yesterday I had posters on all my TV shows today I have with posters and thats just the issue for today. I don’t really know what you’re talking about because I haven’t got that far into Plex. I haven’t paid for a Pass and now that’s out of the question. I’m going back to Kodi.
Should say today I have 3 with posters out of 53.
It’s a shame because it really should be a good product. I don’t know why but there seems to be an idea that there’s nothing wrong at the moment and the basics are not sorted somehow. It’s gotten really bad in the last few months which is probably the time you’ve been trying. Not very good sales tactics putting a broken release into the public channel.
The big downside Kodi always has is that it has no client / server architecture. You can set it up to run with a mysql database, configure some conf files and generally mess about with a myriad of clients, but that’s painful for most. That’s been a big bonus with Plex - mess about with that stuff on the server side and you only have to do it in one place. The downside of course is that when it breaks, it breaks for everything.
