Just a quick one @McWanke for Live TV & DVR. The hubs on the home screen appear differently on every device. I’ve never seen any other hub across all libraries do this.
The recent channels hub on Android TV shows miniscule icons, and some platforms show the red live banner. It would be great if the icon filled the square on each device and displayed the red live banners.
Could you please forward this problem to the Live TV & DVR team.
Thanks for the post @snortingkfc !! We have work going on right now that should provide a much more consistent experience across clients. I will make sure the people working on this get receipt of this specific callout!
And thank YOU @TheLivingBubba for your post! I don’t have any specifics to provide on the two issues you brought up, but we are doing everything we can to tackle QOL improvements alongside our other project work!
Hey @simondsjt !! Great idea! I really like this one as it is something I could see myself using. So with my engineering hat on - yes it definitely sounds possible! Now don’t get your hopes up as I have no clue how hard actually implementing this feature would be. That also means that while I thing this is a good candidate for the backlog, not sure when we might be able to consider it for an actual development project.
Thanks @xSean for the topic here. There was some good follow-up discussion here and we want to continue improving our handling of subtitles as they are a key feature for a lot of people. I have captured this discussion in our backlog to see what we can do in future projects to continue making these better for everyone!
Every time I open an Android app, I always stay on the logo screen for 1 minute due to account verification, which is a very poor experience. I hope we can find a different way not to delay the time of opening the app. Here are some suggestions:
Option 1: Client authentication is delegated by the server, so only one VPN is needed on the server, without the need for every client to install a VPN
Option 2: Automatically bind device hardware information to the account. After the same device completes verification for the first time, there is no need for repeated verification. Only hardware changes or membership status changes require re verification
Thank you for the link to that post. Yes it would be great if they could have a reliable and secure method. Perhaps in the meantime they could look into setting up a slider switch in settings that for people that just have local libraries they can set that to “Local Only” with a pop-up warning saying that you will lose access to streaming options? Just thinking outload that it might be an easy patch until they can implement something better for us Plex users that only use Plex for local libraries. That way I would not have to have both Plex for when there is internet and Jellyfin for when the internet goes out.
General plans in that we know that watching while recording isn’t as good as it could be and want to make that better? yes. Specific plans as to ongoing projects or imminent work kicking off? No
We do not have any current or future projects around Watch Together right now.
Interesting question. No immediate plans here. Probably worth some internal discussion to see how we might be able to do this.
Glad you brought this up. It would be nice if Plex could in some way store date added and total plays and total skips and that kind of data universally for the tracks themselves. So that if you split or make a new library that data would be there. Not sure how much work that would be but it would be nice from a historical sense on your library.
Hiya @gordonjb !! Personally I love extras! They add so much more context and flavor to movies and things I watch! Right now we don’t have anything planned around enhancements to extras, but we appreciate the comments and I personally hope that after we get some big projects out of the way can give this feature area some love!
I would like to see a more thorough account about what happened with Tidal being removed. I’m sure that users like me who only use Plex/Plexamp for music and nothing else are a small minority of users, but the removal of Tidal is a gut punch. From everything I have read, Tidal is only being removed from Plex and no other services, not even from open source projects like LMS. So this whole situation seems fishy. An explanation more than “Tidal decided to pull support from Plex” is needed.
Right now I’m wondering if I should wait and see if Plex adds another streamer like Qobuz, if I should go back to Roon (which I did not like nearly as much as Plexamp), or investigate other similar services.
As one example of the personal investment I put into Plexamp, I spent many hours creating a script that allows me to query ChatGPT to create playlists, create a Plex formatted playlist, fill in any tracks that aren’t in my local library using Tidal, and save the playlist to Plexamp. Using these playlists in Plexamp with the DJ Stretch turned on is like a dream come true. I can listen to a near perfect, non-repeating custom mix for DAYS.
And now all of this is going away? Even though it sounds silly, I almost want to cry. Plexamp + Tidal is the solution that I had hoped to find for years, and now I’m not sure what’s going to happen after October.
using this chance to bring up a recurring topic in a lot of forums or reddit: PMS local routed and remote access on e.g. iOS devices / through the Plex app.
While plain local LAN access is flawless, problems sometimes start with routed subnets in a LAN. A lot of people have problems convincing the PMS and Plex client (web, on devices like NVIDIA Shield or SmartTVs, using Plex apps on e.g. iOS) that they are on the same LAN and that there should be no bandwidth limit nor transcoding (given, that this is possible by the combination of video and client program).
Remote Access: given the same setup and throwing in a reverse proxy like nginx, caddy or Traefik, one might use a certificate to hide services behind that proxy. Using split DNS the IP address of the CN in the certificate might be different, depending on whether you ask from inside your LAN or while on the internet somewhere. Plex seems to crash that scenario on the Plex app (e.g. on iOS) because of doing not only DNS resolution of the server, instead getting a Plex internal remote server name from Plex.
I would really appreciate, if you dive into technical details of how remote connections to a PMS are established regarding the different options - apps on iOS/Android,…, Web Player, … is there more? - and provide solutions to the described remote access solutions as well as elaborate onto the routed subnets questions to prevent bandwidth limits and transcoding.
Hi @plxstrm ! I checked out the My Profile post but it is an older one, if it is still happening we would love to get a fresh report here so that we can look into it. The advanced filters idea is intriguing. It would be something we will have to consider for the backlog right now.
On the music integrations, if only it were this easy. It isn’t a resourcing issue here. I don’t know what integrations, if any, will come back here for music but we will be ready to jump on and build any integrations that come down the pipe!
@McWanke just another thing to piggy back on this idea which would be soo soo nice
Plexamp could benefit from something similar here. Playing music out of a different speaker / setup and have the Plexamp visualizer on a TV. Or even just the album artwork and a clock on a TV. The ability to split the audio out and video out to two different places.
please let us have back the unwatched flags. The watched checkmark is a huge downgrade in at-a-glance viewing of my plex clients.
I loved having the bright orange flags on my Home Screen grab my eye saying “HEY! there’s something new here!”. While logically equal, the absence of a watched mark is NOT as visually helpful as the presence of an unwatched flag.
The bright orange color is a secondary request; if your team has also decided everything must now be black, so be it. A bland black unwatched flag is better than what we have now.
as a corollary to #1, for users like myself who have watched the vast majority of their content, not only do the watched markers completely lose all visual meaning, but they obscure the artwork for our entire plex collection. It goes beyond unhelpful into the nuisance territory.
This is a great example of how awful this new system is, and each of my points above are represented here. New content visually blends in with old content and every single poster is obscured.
I know you have given us the option to turn off watched checks, but I hope you can see how that is not a good solution to this situation. You have just removed a feature which we have been using since I can remember using plex.
