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Actually I believe Plex is making up a lot of the so called statistics so that this feature looks good because they are simply too greedy and arrogant to admit how stupid the introduction of the “feature” was and how hated it is among a lot of their customers.

And I did eliminate Plex from my life completely pretty recently but I have been still supporting a few (9 families actually) folks that I had installed Plex for, it was a great program a few years back,. Three of those moved to Emby a couple of years ago because Plex simply became too much bloat ware and four more dropped Plex when this piece of crap was introduced. One more gave up today and I installed Emby today for her.

I just got off the phone with the family that has the last Plex system I installed and they are moving to Emby tomorrow. It has taken a while but, after tomorrow I will only support Emby so Plex will be out of my life and, I guess, I will be out of Plex’s life as well.

The first part of my relationship with Plex was great. Then, over time, Plex decided that making money was all that mattered so I moved most of my media into Emby.

Over the next few months/years Plex got worse and the people I had installed began calling more and more about interface issues and excessive intrusion by Plex into their lives.

This pathetic excuse for a feature and the intrusive stuff Plex shoved where the sun don’t shine has finally pushed everyone I know that had Plex to move to Emby, except one that is using Kodi and nothing else. (she lives alone and has a pretty small library.)

I guess I will no longer feel a need to come here as I no longer have even one friend using Plex. So I will not need any ideas or the rare help about Plex

So, maybe, now I really will go away. (OK, do your happy dance, I know who you are.) Before I was staying because of some loyalty and I kept hoping that someone, anyone, at Plex would come to their senses and go back to actually supporting users and helping them watch their own media.
Now it is clear that Plex will continue screwing users for money (There is a name for that behavior) so I no longer hold any hope for Plex’s redemption.

So, unless something makes me do otherwise, I will now move on and spend all my time trying to help some over at Emby.

It actually was a good run with Plex but dealing with them has just become too much trauma and Emby is both easy and fun. and produces no trauma to speak of. Of course I have to get those I helped comfortable with Emby but, after the transition, I expect a call for help from one or another from time to time but it will be less, I believe, that what I received from friends using Plex.

But I do want to thank Plex. Without Plex’s stupidity I never would have even tried the better product, Emby.

So:

Thank You Plex

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Congratulations.
Imagine all the saved time and not having to explain how to “fix” their clients on their gigabit connection to get something better than 2 Mbps😂 when they’re streaming.

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Last time I tried Emby it took 45 minutes to scan my library :confused:
Is that better now?

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I actually do not know. With Emby or Plex I never even timed the scans but, for me, there is nothing that Emby does that Plex is not slower at.

In working with Emby I have found there are ways to speed everything up. One of the better is to store the images and metadata in the same directory as its media.

It should be noted that I do NOT use separate folders for each movie and I think from small informal testing that putting movies in folders when not absolutely needed slows things down a bit. I know that it is true for Emby and I believe it would be true for Plex as well.

BTW: I have never found scanning time to be any guide as to quality. Scanning happens in the background so, unless you have your computer configured incorrectly and scanning can take all the process there really is nothing wrong with a fairly long scan time. The most a server should do during scanning is stream a file or two and maybe one other simple task.
Servers should serve and have no other regular duties.

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Elijah_Bailey Said…
It should be noted that I do NOT use separate folders for each movie and I think from small informal testing that putting movies in folders when not absolutely needed slows things down a bit. I know that it is true for Emby and I believe it would be true for Plex as well."

Well that is incorrect with Plex, allocating Folders does indeed improve scanning as the scanner can detect if there are NO CHANGES in a folder and skips. FACT

As for your thoughts on server activity, to have it’s own Golden garden with modern computers, is just BS. FACT My server is a multi use station with Plex structured for the least possible Trans coding for clients. I near never have any issues, occasionally a bad file, my Bad not Plex. FACT. I suppose my good friend Juice WSA taught me a lot. FACT

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This was a thread meant to be a positive spin and discuss features and suggestions. Not venting from people who on all accounts have already left.
Between your type of posts and the “Plex is infallible and everything you say is stupid”-people, I’m not sure this forum is doing Plex any favors.

I think I got as much feedback as I need.

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Well. I did it. I moved over to Emby. Quit my Plex Pass subscription of 7 years, and took the leap.
Seems Emby is a better fit for me so things are looking good.

Anyway. Best of luck to all of you on the forum and for Plex. I seriously hope you guys can find a way improve the product to the benefit of your customers and not only for business profit.

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Welcome to the Emby crowd. I did that step years ago when Plex changed their privacy policy. Somehow I know already what’s to come back then …

So long story short and in the light of posting something positive about Plex: thank you Plex about having the recent data breach: for sure this will help a lot of people to reconsider their choices.

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I only come to these forums every few months to see the latest news and what’s going on.

After reading through all the user temper tantrums I go away never wanting to read the forums again.

A few months later I come back checking to see the latest news and what’s going on… Rinse and repeat.

These forums are so incredibly toxic. It’s as if its “the” location the Karens of the world can go to try to out-Karen one another.

See you in a few months.

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