@marekszulik @ManuelPG @romancamelia @akila_plex @sixones
I rely on Plex’s Android TV app across about 7 Android TV boxes between my home and my parent’s home.
Android TV boxes used are 4 nvidia shield tv 2017 boxes and 3 maverick 4k mediaboxes.
I find the same bugs on all 7 devices.
These bugs have been around for a very long time now. Are you aware of these?
Bugs fixed or features added are blurred out below.
BUGS:
1. Scrubbing back and forth for a bit on a playing video causes the video to freeze and sometimes causes the whole app to reboot itself with the plex logo.
- “Mark as unplayed” shows up in the long press menu for partially watched videos, but does not show up as an icon in the pre-play/details screen or in the “more” list for partially watched videos.
3. (FIXED) The “Mark as unplayed” option in the long press menu currently does not mark the item as unplayed, instead it incorrectly marks the item as played
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When watching videos back to back in a playlist, not all the videos get marked as played as each video completes but instead I have a stack of videos on my “continue watching” list with partial completions and then I need to go through each one and manually mark it as played.
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Scrolling down for a bit and then scrolling up once through a playlist, causes an odd animation jump that makes it look like the scrolling skipped an item during scrolling
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If I press left arrow on remote too many times in the preplay/details screen, it jumps to the sidebar on the left and then ends up opening the library that the highlight landed on and completely jumps me out of the preplay screen and in to that library. Then I have to manually make my way back to the video series I was looking at. If access to the sidebar is absolutely essential while in the preplay/details screen, please only allow library to be selected when pressing OK on the remote rather than opening the library purely based on it being highlighted.
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Posters on Android TV home screen in the plex channel duplicates in some instances
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(FIXED) My secondary plex server showing with incorrect libraries.
On my android mobile app and on my plex web app, the libraries under my servers are correct as follows: COLOSSUS SERVER: * Movies * Music * Playlists * Specials * TV Shows POLARIS SERVER * Memories * Playlists On my android TV app and only when I login as the admin, the polaris server shows the wrong libraries (it seems to think it is my primary server) and incorrectly looks like this: COLOSSUS SERVER: * Movies * Music * Playlists * Specials * TV Shows POLARIS SERVER * Movies * Music * Playlists * Specials * TV Shows This bug only happens when I’m logged in with my admin user and only on Android TV app only. If I log in on another type of Plex app (mobile or web), no bug. If I log in with another user on android tv app, no bug. But if I log in with my admin user on an android tv app, this bug appears.
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Selecting a tab LIBRARY or COLLECTIONS inside any library does indeed change to that tab, however the cursor jumps back to RECOMMENDED even though it is in the LIBRARY or COLLECTIONS tab
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If a row from multiple server libraries is pinned to my HOME screen and one of those servers are offline, then it brings the whole home screen to a halt. The home screen just circles trying to find all the servers and will eventually only show the list of online servers, but takes a while.
11. Old movies are constantly being pushed to the front of my “recently added movies” collection. Not sure why this happens. It is happening specifically on my “Specials” movie library and specifically for my own personally recorded videos that don’t have any online metadata. Does plex just decide every now and again that that is recently added even though I added the content about a year ago now?
- The tabs on the plex home screen is titled “Home” and “Watchlist”. Seems odd to have a home tab in a home section. The tabs should rather be “Recommended” and “Watchlist”. This will also align it to the other plex client apps.
13. I added items to my watchlist from my own plex library, and on some of my Android TV boxes, I see the items in the watchlist and on other Android TV boxes the watchlist is empty. This has something to do with plex confusing user profile content. This problem comes about after I’ve switched from someone else as a user to myself. Then I need to force stop the app and restart it for it to properly show my watchlist and sometimes it even does this with my home screen and my playlist too.
- My recently added tv shows are showing the wrong show titles on the home screen
FEATURE REQUESTS:
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With each of my family members (5 in total) being signed in to 7 android tv devices, 1 phone, 1 tablet, 1 computer EACH, it is a huge hassle to have to configure the sidebar for each of these devices so that they stay consistent. As an example, if I add a new library to the server or if something like “Discover” is introduced, I need to login to 10 devices for each of the 5 family members to reorganise the layout of the sidebar. I would love if the client settings for the sidebar could be synced to the cloud so I just have to change it on one device per user, and all that user’s sidebar configuration settings will be synced across devices.
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I would also like the option to sync client “experience” settings across client devices
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The action buttons in a playlist are at the top of the screen instead of where it used to be on the left of the screen. This means that if I am scrolling and am at the bottom of the scroll list, I need to scroll all the way up of the long playlist to get to the action buttons. I would like the action buttons on the left.
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Why are Watchlists and Playlists not treated the same way in the UI? They are both lists unique to a user. They should both be treated the same. I prefer that they both be items in the sidebar rather than how watchlist is currently treated as a tab in the home screen.
