+1 to this feature.
Same problem. Like others above I try the feature every 6 months or so hoping that itās been fixed. Disappointed every time.
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Same problem for me. Do you have a better solution ? DS photo isnāt usable either on my Xiaomi box s. Too slow too and crash a lot (not on my phoneā¦ Weird)
Do you have feedback about Kodi photo management ? Even if it is not a server approachā¦ If it can lead to read photo on TVā¦
Same problem here. Plex seems really dumb with photosā¦ all the processing has to be done on the server instead of the apple tv app even over a LAN and whatever conversion it is doing isnāt cached.
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it typical for many companies. everyone try to make everything whatās possible, but no one does it good. what you get is a product which make everything, but just mehhā¦
i hate solutions for every purpose. plex is for movies and tv show. not for music, photos, tv.
for plex its important not to lost the focus on their core functionality, like apple in the past years.
Same here, way too slow. Maybe the issue is on the database side?
Just started to test with Plex and was excited to view my large organized photo collection only to see it was so slow, I thought I was doing something wrong till I came across this thread. Totally disappointing, such a fundamental feature and they cannot provide proper caching and metadata on pictures?? This makes Plex useless for me, shame.
Yes, Plex, please take the time fully refresh the photos features! Speed and viewing quality are both lacking!
Hello to Everyone! I am using WD My Cloud Home with factory pre-installed PLEX. At first I threw about 100 gb of photos and faced with very slow work on the APPLE TV 4K and computers, I was upset ā¦ Then I realized one very important thing: this is due to the fact that all media storages work with HDDs that hate small files anyway type of JPG especially in huge quantities. This cannot be fixed globally, but I came up with a way. Plex does not allow zoom so it makes no sense to store high-resolution source files in its library (you definitely wonāt zoom even if it worked). Spent some time (and still in the process) to re-save the main library in one place, and put thumbnails in the PLEX folders (equal in height to the height of the largest screen of all devices that have PLEX), this is not fast in time, but now itās real works very fast in PLEX! And Iām glad that you can use only one application for ALL media libraries! Maybe in the future PLEX will optimize the work a little (I would like!), But we all live now ā¦ After I connected PLEX PASS and it became generally super! You can change the size of pictures with any photo editor, but from the beginning of 2000 I have ADCSDEE 4.0, which is very simple and fast and can quickly change resolution and quality on a large number of pictures at once. I apologize for my English, I am from Kazakhstan and use google translate.
3 years later it seems that the issus still hereā¦
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replying to keep it open, this is a real issue and PMS has constantly ignore it
Has there been any official statement about this issue? Are they working on a fix?
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They just do not care. They are busy doing functionality no one wants and ignore basic things like the Photo Library been not usable.
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Iāve been with Plex for a couple of years now and I need to say that Photos are completely unusable because of how slow it renders those (forcing transcoding of JPEG files is a nonsense). And it is just like that as long as I remember. Itās a complete disaster on Synology NAS with ARM processor. Inefficient at most on Synology NAS with x86 processor.
I guess developers just are not interested in making Plex better. Hard to believe knowing how big part photos are of our life. Anyone knows a good alternative to Plex for managing photos stored on NAS?
There is Lychee https://lychee.electerious.com/ which is super cool and works great but limited to browser access only. No dedicated app for Smart TV or Roku makes it cumbersome to use on TV though.
There are few other servers but none of those was even close to Lychee when it comes to ease of use except Synology native app called Photo Station.
Any other recommended alternatives?
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Itās extremely slow. I wish at least the thumbnails could be cached on the Android app, so at least those would load instantly. From my observation the thumbnails are generated when opening an album, which is supper annoying. I have my photos organized by year and 90% of my content doesnāt change, but still it regenerates those thumbnails every time I try to browse them.
Slow for me too. Plex Server on Synology DS1517+
They are too busy making new features nobody wants instead of fixing key features like this.
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Same problem here, both with a remote Plex Server on a QNAP 453D (system installed on M.2 NVME SSD) and a local Plex Server on a QNAP 253 Pro. Iām browsing the photos through a Roku Steremaning Stick + over WiFi.
Browsing the same photos using Roku Media Player present no lagā¦ but the Plex interface is way better, so I really like if this problem could be addressed.
Absolutely agree. Just seeing how old this post is and there are no replies from the Plex team yet, in 3 years, it is truly shameful. But wait, soon enough we might have a new Plex feature, probably some more useless TV channels that i will never watch, while Photos (the most personal of our media paradise) is completely UNUSABLE! Letās keep posting to keep this thread up
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Spent hours trying to tune PMS and Synology DS220j to improve photo display and chromecast performance with absolutely no success. Eventually, I tried installing PMS on my Windows laptop, which has a SSD and a better processor than the NAS. The laptop has only a wireless connection to the home network and NAS. Photos are still stored on the NAS. I now have two PMSs, one on the NAS and one on the laptop. Video performance has always been fine using just the NAS. Having a separate PMS on my laptop seems weird, but solved my photo display problems. Whatās nice is that your Plex account and the Plex web app shows you both PMSs and lets you manage and access each one easily. Iām pretty satisfied with this solution so far. Itās just a little more complicated and distributed, but still easy to use and manage.
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