The new release of Plex for the firestick is complete and utter trash. Performance is crap. Half of my media isn’t playing. The half that is playing takes forever to load. Roll it back. Burn this release and fire every developer who worked on it and rubber stamped it as good. I hate it enough to seriously considering looking for an alternative to Plex.
I know a lot of people hate the new interface. It may be easier to check out Plezy and PM4k. They have become very popular ways to watch your Plex shows without the official Plex client. If you have a Windows desktop, install the client and check it out. Then you can decide if you want to buy it. A lot less work doing that vs a migration
Yeahhhhhhh…no. If I have to spend more money and use a different client than the native one that’s a sure sign it’s time to leave Plex. It’s been getting progressively worse lately and this has made it absolutely unusable in my use case. Very disappointed with the Plex team. Sad sad day
Plezy’s APKs are available for free to download and sideload onto devices from the github, which is also how you would install Kodi to use PM4K. Of course, if you learn how to side-load you could just load the old Plex APK instead.
It’s horrible!! Luckily on one of my TV’s it asked me to launch without updating, so I guess I’ll be doing that forever now. PLEASE allow us to rollback the update and never do an update without some warning in the future. The new update is trash!
I’m hoping they rush out an update as its pretty impossible to skip forward or back without an endless buffering symbol. One thing any media player should be good at is playing media. That includes navigation such as fast forward. Got that annoyed this morning, I put on Jellyfin just to see what actual playback was like. Basic, no frills but just actually worked. I do like the new look Plex but they really have to get the basics right.
Go install Wholphin.
I just wanted to join the bandwagon. I will definitely not be renewing at the end of this billing cycle. Time to try other options!
I agree. It’s rough. The old UI was much better.
I have no problem with the new interface but I cannot stand the constant buffering and massive delay in loading the content you want to watch. It needs fixed immediately
