Manually progressing through paused photo gallery - unwelcome change

Plex Players
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Server Version#: 1.32.7.7571 and 1.32.7.7616
Player Version#: 10.2.0.4488

Past behavior:

  1. Open a Photo library.
  2. Open an individual photo (don’t click ‘Play’ or ‘Shuffle’).
  3. This incorrectly starts autoplaying the library (a regression reported 4 years ago)
  4. Pause the slideshow.
  5. Using the remote’s navigation ring to move forward/backward through photos, the slideshow remained paused.

New behavior:
At step 5 above, moving to the next/previous photo starts the slideshow again, so I have to hit Pause every time I switch photos.

This is not intuitive. Can we get it back to the expected behavior below?

Expected (intuitive) behavior:

  1. When a user opens a photo directly (without clicking a Play or Shuffle control), the expectation is that photo, and ONLY that photo, will be displayed. Play/shuffle is not initiated.
  2. When manually moving through images using forward/backward control, the new image should be displayed, but slideshow should remain paused.
  3. Slideshow should be started only when Play or Shuffle control is used.
2

Yikes, that’s irritating!

3

Unfortunately this is just one of several pretty major problems with photo libraries on Android-TV right now:

Unable to choose photo from photo strip in Android TV

Android TV unable to open recently added photos

[bug] Photo playlists kills audio in Music playlist - This one is particularly dysfunctional.

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I am also irritated by this behavior. The photo library in Kodi Android TV is way better then the Plex photo library unfortunately.