Library Sort Order - is suddenly no longer sticky

Server Version#: 1.20.1.3252
Player Version#: 4.56.3

All of a sudden, my preferred sort order for my music library (Sort by ALBUM/TITLE) is no longer sticky. Until today, if I sorted my music library by Album/Title, the plex web app would remember this for my user and, unless I resorted the view, I could always go to my music library and it would show me my music library sorted as I left it: Album/Title. It didn’t matter whether I logged off and back on, it would always reliably hold on to this setting. Today, the behavior suddenly changed. Now, if I so much as navigate away from a view all display of my music library (lets say I focus in on the track list of an album, or switch to my movie library, or change from my LIBRARY tab to the RECOMMENDED tab, it doesn’t appear to matter), when I next move back to my music library it will sort everything by, what appears to be the software’s default, Artist/Title. I can then resort back to my preferred order (so none of this, of course, is the end of the world), but it won’t stick and I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s changed or how to get back to the old behavior.
I have this feeling that it’s a simple setting or preference that I need to re-toggle but I am currently at a loss and my googlefu has been weak.
So far, I have:

  • Restarted my plex server.
  • Cleared the cache on my plex server
  • Logged in and out of the plex web app on my client machine.
  • Tried different browsers on my client machine.

Interesting side note, the plex app on my android phone is working as expected (it is holding on to my preferred sort order: Album/Title). It’s just the web app that has changed behavior.

Any suggestions will be very much appreciated. Thanks, everyone!

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This is a regression in the latest version of Plex Web, which is being investigated at the moment. Apologies for this!

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No worries. It’s good to know what it is.
Thank you so much for the quick reply!

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No worries! Always happy to help! :plexheart:

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Fixed! Plex Web - #353 by chrishoage

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Not fixed.

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Web app remembers settings. Desktop app does not.

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That’s because the desktop app will require the new version of Plex Web when it’s next released. However, we have fixed the underlying issue, and it’s available on Plex Web now. As the original post was about Plex Web, I was addressing that

Awesome. Thank you for the quick updates!

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can you tell me when this will be fixed on the osx desktop app?

obviously not an exact date, but what’s the rough plan? a week? a month?

I would also like to know when Mac app will be fixed

just restarted my mac app which auto updated and fixed this sorting issue.

This is happening to my on Windows as well. Version 1.31.0.2254-43df1e6e. Sucks.

Fixed in 1.31.1

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