I wanted to provide a feedback about plex apps.
I was waiting a dashboard to appear in the plex app and I recently discovered that there was a dedicated app named “plex dash” published by “Plex labs”. I also discovered an app named “Plex Amp” which is a nice music player.
I was wondering why those services are not present in the basic plex app, I have seen that they are reserved to plex pass members but it should be possible to enabled only for plex pass members. This make those apps invisible if you don’t know they exists… More visibility could make plex pass more attractive.
I first wanted to provide a feedback (would it be the right place ? ) but I would also understand why, this is why it is formulated as a question.
Your post is (now) in the right category where you can also share feedback etc.
As for “Why Plex Labs”?
Plex Labs is the place to learn more about the awesome tech behind Plex, discover some amazing contributions and third-party apps from our community, and even test drive some of our very own passion projects and experimental features.
I suppose that translates into those apps are still considered experimental and/or passion projects. Not sure if/when their features will be integrated into the main apps.
Personally I’m rather happy with the snappy Plexamp as my to-go music player and not having it mixed up in all my other content – but that’s just my 2ct
Plexamp has a radically different approach to development cycles than the other Plex app(s).
Its technical basis is also very different from the regular Plex app.
Therefore it is impractical to merge the two.
I didn’t know that the two apps works differently…
Anyway it is beautiful, I thought it could be and option like new/old player for video. But you said it would be impractical.
I mainly wanted to have the dashboard in main plex app, as it is on PC.
I prefer the separate apps, it should use less memory when each is used in turn. it allows people just to download the functionality the user wants and I dare say it keeps the code simpler from a developer perspective.
