Maybe you will, maybe you won’t. We’ll have to wait and see.
Are you, or others, really spending that long on the home page? Maybe it’s just me but the home page is the least useful part of the UI. I’m either clicking straight through to continue watching or going to a library to browse.
I didn’t say that it was better. I just disagree that the flyout was an objectively better approach or is one to get particularly worked up about losing. That’s why I was interested in what apparently makes it better or, as you put it, much better. But once you are actually using the app the ‘lost’ space from the bottom bar is minimal, especially once you start scrolling through the content on the server.
Because the libraries are listed vertically than, instead of horizontally on one line. This is more efficient use of space due to the screen orientation, and because the items are spaced equally from each other regardless of the content (length of entries). This aids in scanning the list looking for a specific item.
Vertical lists provide better readability by breaking up topics and making them easier to navigate – you know, the thing we’re doing on this app.
The sidebar also only remains on screen taking up space when wanted. It’s collapsed and away to give focus to the chosen topic otherwise.
While all that is true it’s pretty much the same if you long press the library button on the bottom bar. You get a vertical list of your libraries which then disappears when you don’t need it.
I think we can both agree that shouldn’t have been added. It was a poor solution.
Click on their profile and change the notifications to ignore. The more people start doing that and letting these trolls yell into the ether, the more they will stop commenting. There’s several in here and on this site that spew toxic positivity like that guy.
Playback fails using plex on the web unless audio is converted to mp3 or ac3. Also fails on android devices, so for best compatibility with IPTV streams, I have to convert the audio. Playback works on both the old and new app regardless if the audio is converted on my Apple TV and iPhone. It is strange that you have issues.
Only necessary if stream has aac audio. plex prefers ac3 or mp3 in ts.
well the new version is broken with ZeroTier. I have a plex pass but I use zero tier to access my network for other things. So if i have Zero Tier active i get an erro: " Error opening input". If i disconnect Zero Tier it works as its then going out via the external remote access. note this is on my Cell connection on my phone. Wifi seems ok.
Note the Live TV actually works though. its only playing back movies where the issue occurs - and it used to work without issue.
As already written, all channels work perfectly for me in Plex Web and the old app without further conversion of the audio stream. Jellyfin also has no problems with playback on the web or various apps.
Only the new Plex Experience app crashes with the previously mentioned error.
So I am very sure that it is not due to my general setup.
To give a more complete picture:
I use three DVB-C tuners in TVheadend. Threadfin is configured without a buffer, and Plex connects directly to the TVheadend server for playback. Threadfin is therefore only responsible for preparing the M3U playlist and providing the HDHomerun proxy.
Since I had the same error with the HDHomerun emulation integrated in TVH, it cannot be due to Threadfin.
I have now set up everything completely new on additional hardware as a test environment (Plex server, TVH with integrated HDHomerun integration), and completely deleted the app on my iPhone (including data) and reinstalled it.
Exactly the same problem again: It works in Plex Web, the app refuses to play with the same error.
I will now stop my efforts completely.
I’ve already spent way too many hours trying to fix a bug in the new app that should be fixed by the Plex team.
I’m been a Plex Lifetime Pass holder for years. I use it for one purpose - watching my own video and TV library. I also bought an iPad primarily for one purpose - to watch TV shows and Movies offline while in places without internet e.g. planes.
The new “update” has completely broken this core functionality and rendered it useless. The offline downloads experience is simply terrible, the user interface for it awful (all in one long list, no sorting by show, season, etc) and the actual process of downloading files HIGHLY unreliable.
Everything simply worked great before.
OK, I get it, you made a mistake and rushed this out before it was in any way ready whatsoever and ended up removing core functionality and pissing off your users. We get it. But there is a very easy way to fix this - you release the last old version of the IOS app separately in the appstore and call it Old Plex or whatever you want while you continue working on the new version. Because the current situation is simply unacceptable. As a Plex user since the beginning I have lost faith now and am actively looking at alternatives.
Seems to me the easy way for Plex to see just bad this new app has been received is to relaunch the old app and leave this one as the new app. Then simply look at the download)usage stats and the picture will be clear.
I’ve turned off all updates to client and server but would happily reinstall as the “old” app to show Plex which client I prefer via reported numbers.
Also what’s very interesting here is most of the replies on here are from Plex pass customers and not free loaders. Ie the very users who paid for Plex to get where they are today.
I have LOTS of libraries across multiple servers. An infinitely-scrollable vertical list is the most natural way to display and select them. And I never want to see the discover content.
No, I haven’t. There was SO much bad about the app that I reverted it to 8.45 on all devices I own or can influence. Much happier now.
Frankly, it’s not worth my time and energy to further troubleshoot poor Plex team decisions any more than I already have. The new experience is entirely misguided.
Also, for the first time in a over a decade, I’ve set up competing servers (Jellyfin/Emby) to begin testing them and deciding whether to recommend them as alternatives to the hundreds of people and PlexPass subscribers I introduced to Plex. Initial assessment is that one of these two would work well for many of these folks.
Simply gearing up in case the Plex team never wakes up. It’s crazy to think that I now feel this is worth my time.
I provided @RLA1 and others in the forum just a snippet and perhaps the most important part of the interview that is rather hypocritical to what we are all going through at the moment but are statements KV made back in 2020. The entire 2020 interview below is 20min in length.
While I understand that missions and visions often change in a company, it is unfortunately pretty par for the course to have Plex epically fail on a launch like we all have experienced recently. While others don’t mind taking Plex for a spin as a novice hobby, many in the Plex ecosystem have dedicated 10+ years to tinkering and sometimes the building out the most robust network setups with PMS in mind. It becomes really enraging when upgrades occur that push out instances of bugs, errors, and hardware inefficiencies and someone is troubleshooting from their hotel on vacation. Pretty annoying. The only words from upper management have come from pieces of PR or interviews such as the one I posted.
That full interview is definitely worth listening to.
Yes, a portion of what you said here describes me. I have spent a LOT of time, energy, and money building out a very performant, stable infrastructure specifically to support delivery of the value that Plex has promised through our business relationship (which was formalized through my financial contributions, and further committed to on my side through my market-expanding advertising and implementation time).
Although I didn’t do that marketing for Plex primarily, one reason I did it was so that Plex would remain viable and continue to deliver to their customers the value they promised explicitly and implicitly.
I’ve already paid the price for stability and reliability, which included both my physical setup, as well as my choice to standardize on Plex because it claimed it would prioritize what would deliver value to me through MY media, first and foremost. To have Plex change their priorities and de-prioritize the value I have paid them for is frustrating, and it extends well beyond frustrating when that de-prioritization causes me to spend more of my extremely valuable time on problems that could and should have been avoided.
Plex’s leadership should have kept their eye on the common purpose we all started with and have invested in, and protected the core of that experience. This they have not done.
Got my hopes up that External Screen Support would help with the shuffling of TV seasons not working on Chromecast,but alas, more of the same crapola with no updates from Plex.
A major issue I am currently seeing with the new app is what happens when you are switching between different networks, like going from WiFi to Cell or back again.
Everytime without fail, whenever it moves from WiFi to Cell or back again, the currently running media will crash completely reset to the very beginning, even within the server itself, as if it was never watched. I have to start over, and hope I remember the relative position of where I was when It reset so that I can resume somewhere close to when the reset happened.
This happens everytime my cell phone switches from WiFi to Cellular or Cellular to Wifi.
