I’ve just updated PMS and now I have a nice display of my single playlist permanently displayed on the dashboard. It’s a list of files that aren’t properly encoded or have other issues that need dealing with. I don’t need to see it ever on my dash and now I cannot get rid of it without deleting the whole list. I like to have control and options on my media centre and this is not doing it for me. I love Plex but I’m seriously looking at alternatives like Kodi and Emby because this constant trend to make everything ‘netflix’ like is pissing me off massively.
Anyone else pissed off with these constant, stupid little changes to the UI that ■■■■ up perfectly working features? PMPs entire user interface is a good example. Just do horizontal scroll because netflix does it. No rationale beyond ‘popular service does it, lets do it too’ with no regard for the use case at all.
I’m going to break the trend and agree with the OP. I don’t want Netflix (it’s hardly an example of the “best” way of doing things) and stuff like this should be customizable.
Anyone else pissed off with these constant, stupid little changes to the UI that **** up perfectly working features? PMPs entire user interface is a good example. Just do horizontal scroll because netflix does it. No rationale beyond ‘popular service does it, lets do it too’ with no regard for the use case at all.
Yupp. Hate the horisontal scrolling crap. At least have a freaking Scroll Bar witch is the industri standard on everything not hipster.
Also the stupidity of not having any “tool-help” on mouse-over “long” titles that PMS just simply refuse to show you. Having “some name - hi…” Inst really helpful when you would like to watch or listen to something! (real life example: My 13 music videos of: ZAPPA - a token of h…) Thanks. That was helpful. Now i really now witch one of these 13 i wanted to watch next.
I already made a comment on it - though its less about the UI and more about server features
I’d like more control over media/metadata/users etc to return; not be set aside in favor of “streamlining and clients”.
Not to rehash everything but its difficult in Plex to show my large collection of art videos without renaming everything.
usually I have it by "Store -> Instructor -> Topic -> Lesson1, 2, 3
In Plex its a jumbled massive mess of “home videos” or folders with no cover art, OR i have to rename everything and change the structure so it fits into a “TV” format “Series/Season/Episode” and rename ALL files with a “S00E00” format.
Simply put, Emby will show it all with my original format and let me drag dvd covers to Lessons and instructor pictures to who taught it, etc while still allowing me to edit metadata as needed.
Want “specials” to be shown in line with TV episodes as aired? Nope
Want to fix out of order episodes for scrapped TV shows? Nope again - Why would they allow you edit, much less see metadata? Silly “user”
User data? Install 3rd party pluggins, even though the server logs all that info.
In the end i’m running both side by side, but for a media server Plex is great as long as its used only as they intend.
*This all sounds a bit harsher than I intended it to but I understand that now its a business, they have a different direction than, IMO, what they started with years ago.
I’ve hit a huge organizational issue where Home Videos can’t have a nested structure. So my only option is to create separate libraries for each grouping, which is really beginning to clutter up the left pane. I’d really like one library (since all these “Home Videos” fall in the same topic/category), then have the groups clustered like individual TV shows, and then when you drill down one more level you see all those like “episodes”.
Plex supports this organizational structure option for actual TV shows, but not Home Videos for some inexplicable reason.
Plex supports this organizational structure option for actual TV shows, but not Home Videos for some inexplicable reason.
This is one of my basic complaints. You have to set the library type to be “TV” with the personal media scanner. Once you do that you have to follow the TV structure and name every episode you want under a topic as you would a tv episode.
Apart from the leechers, I supposed I expect a bit more from something paid for. But I haven’t really noticed any difference over the years. Reminds me of an “ok” developed open source project, except these guys get paid a ton and it’s not open source.
In general I’m neither satisified or dissatisfied.
With that said, I’m looking forward to a 2 architecture that makes some sense. You’ve gotta believe that ideas are floating around like crazy about how to fix the overall design. However, inspite of being well paid, development at Plex is pretty slow. It is what it is… there are other closed source companies that operate this way as well.
Content to wait it out (or I might just start developing an alternative…)…
NO! Plex is the best thing that has happened for entertainment in my home. It is used many hours a day by my family, especially this summer with the kids on break and it being hot as hell outside.
@cjcox said:
Content to wait it out (or I might just start developing an alternative…)…
If you’re going to go this way, why not just contribute to emby?
You’re making a terrilble assumption that the basic design of Emby is good.
No, I assume that someone willing to contribute could make it better with Plex (which, yes, is better for many things, but not all) “what you see is what you get”. Feature requests wait for years.
@KarlDag said:
No, I assume that someone willing to contribute could make it better with Plex (which, yes, is better for many things, but not all) “what you see is what you get”. Feature requests wait for years.
with Plex (which, yes, is better for many things, but not all) “what you see is what you get”. Feature requests wait for years.