Releasing the new app was a crazy decision

[hintofsilence242]

WHAT?!? Lunatic…?

[prekratic]

Apple benefited by splitting iTunes into separate apps like Apple TV, Apple Music, and Podcasts, since iTunes had become too slow. Honestly, your argument doesn’t really hold water. What bothers me the most is that the new app doesn’t support all the codecs the old one did. Also, I have no idea where Plex is supposed to put music videos now, since they’re no longer visible in the new app — they only show up on PC.

[hintofsilence242]

LMFAO!!! Seriously??? You’re obviously interested in making things more complex and stupid. I yearn for the days when everything was unified. Good for you for wanting for things to be unified under a slower, more complex system. I absolutely disagree.

[jclifton]

Plex has made the direction decisions already and are continuing on the development track – for better or worse – and that doesn’t show signs of changing. All we can do is adjust our course to either utilize the available Plex versions we have, or migrate to a different solution.

It sounds as though you may want to consider migrating to Jellyfin since music appears to be of large concern to you.

[hintofsilence242]

Things used to be easier, more simplified. Apple, and now Plex, have made it unnessicarily more complicated and infinitely more complex.

[dylanmsc]

Agreed, back when executives had principles. I am still waiting to see a press release from this company showing some layoffs/firings over this. The company needs to show they are removing the cancer that caused this inflicted outcome.

[MrFancyPants1999]

@Franck_Ehret

Not only you are now obliged to use several apps (there is some of us like one for all & some of us even DON’T like Plexamp), but there is A LOT of what I will call “advertising”.

I ONLY want MY STUFF, nothing else!

To be fair I understand your position that one for all is better. I thought so previously, but the reality is that dedicated apps are often always better than “all in one” solutions. Prologue for Audiobooks is a prime example of why dedicated apps are better. The Plex main app doesn’t come close if you have an audiobook library.

Emby on the other hand sticks with the all in one solution, but the music portion and CarPlay don’t work correctly, you get certain bugs with playback, and the app is slower. And forget the native Jellyfin apps. they ALL are terrible and don’t work properly! And music playback on Jellyfin is barebones as it gets. No great mobile app like PlexAmp for emby or jellyfin.

So yeah to those that wanna migrate to emby or jellyfin, good luck! I tried it before, and Plex is still far ahead of the competition. Me and my entire family are ride or die plex users at this point LOL!

Edit: Also turn off all online media sources in your server! I only see my own content in Plex within the apps. If you see on demand or Plex Movies & TV shows, you haven’t disabled them.

[avimay]

i’m ambivalent on the new interface and i don’t mind the split between the video and audio playback systems. i think that’s probably wise. here’s what i can’t understand…

• what’s going on with the “continue watching” not being on the home screen?
• why am i seeing trending trailers and other content on the home screen instead of my own content?

i’ve been using plex for years and there have always been glitches but for software that is primarily free for most users that’s understandable.

what i can’t figure out is how to make the new app display only my own media.

if that’s not a possibility, i’ll be out and so will the rest of my family.

i have all my other media sources turned off on my plex servers. i still see “trending trailers” and “trending on apple tv” on my home screen but – and this is the most important part – no “continue watching” on either my iphone or ipad.

any suggestions?

[aero]

I was able to roll back to the old version from January off APK mirror. Fully with the hassle. Auto update disabled now.

[Franck_Ehret]

@MrFancyPants1999

To be fair I understand your position that one for all is better. I thought so previously, but the reality is that dedicated apps are often always better than “all in one” solutions. Prologue for Audiobooks is a prime example of why dedicated apps are better. The Plex main app doesn’t come close if you have an audiobook library.

Emby on the other hand sticks with the all in one solution, but the music portion and CarPlay don’t work correctly, you get certain bugs with playback, and the app is slower. And forget the native Jellyfin apps. they ALL are terrible and don’t work properly! And music playback on Jellyfin is barebones as it gets. No great mobile app like PlexAmp for emby or jellyfin.

Hi

In fact, I’ve already migrated to Emby for most of my multimedia and for video stuff, it is way better and faster!
For the music part, it’s mixed. Me personally, I love Plexamp (but I still support to have the choice because it’s not perfect), but I had to abandon it because of this :

Problem with casting music from Synology NAS to Cambridge Audio MXN10

Server Version#: v.1.40.1.8120 Player Version#: 4.124.1 Plex Media Server Logs_2024-02-26_09-54-31.zip (6.4 MB) Synology DS420+ DSM Version DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 3 Hi, I cast my music to a Cambridge Audio MXN10 and last week that got a firmware upgrade and since then I can’t cast music to it successfully. Playback stutters and stalls and goes into a loop. The most common error is that it starts to stutter after about 12 seconds of a track but that isn’t always the case. Some things (though…

This is a problem that was raised more than a year ago and still not fixed today… it just took too much time. With a lot of time and persuasion, I was able to get both sides contact information so Cambridge and Plex could work together to fix it. Nothing happened.

I use Plex for more than a decade but slowly and surely, I’m moving away.
Honestly, when you’ve tried the Emby app on a NVIDIA Shield with the transcoding almost instantly, you don’t want anything else.

[Teppie]

@hintofsilence242

e servers I’m connected to, even my own. I, along with seemingly everyone else on here, want it back the way it was. If people want to use PlexAmp as an alternative, great, but don’t force me into it. And the UI for the regular Plex mobile app? BEYOND counterintuitive and stupid. As a designer myself, I find it repulsive, borderline offensive.

Plexamp doesn’t do bit-perfect. It doesn’t even do exclusive audio. I like Plexamp a lot, but don’t lie about features that it doesn’t have.

[alongmuir]

Trying to be constructive here and I hope the following key issues are being worked on:

• The local download functionality in the new app is a mess. Single episodes, no series grouping to minimise clutter, just a sprawl of episode downloads each one needing to be deleted individually.
• The ability to use keyboard controls to pause, fast forward and of course use the slide bar for the timeline needs fixing ASAP.
• The tracking of played content on the Home Screen (from downloads) to resume is another glaring own goal.

I get the frustration from some on the splitting out of app functionality but ultimately Plex is a media streaming content library, that can be customised.

The bugs need fixing and get back to that premise.

[dobramis]

Jellyfin is great but needs a lot of config. You can run Jellyfin alongside Plex and get used to it so you can switch across easily if they dont fix this mess. Stremio is also great if you dont want to host yourself.

[Mollusksksk]

Plexamp does do bit perfect, but (sorta) not on Android. That’s more to do with Android’s drivers more than anything Plex can do, it’s bit perfect on all iOS devices. If you use a DAC for playback with an android and bypass the phone itself it plays bit perfect.

[rmpel]

So, after this nice “upgrade”, how do I get rid of all that live tv sh*t and get my homescreen back?

[Teppie]

Ah okay in that case I don’t know. My experience with Plexamp is on Android and PC. Thanks for the clarification.

[jdenune]

I’ve been struggling with this horrible Android app for the last week or so and it’s completely unusable. It’s slow, movie thumbnails often don’t load, and playback crashes the app most of the time. It’s inexcusable that this was released in this condition and didn’t go back to an older version that worked. I have relatively simple needs and mainly just want to play the media in my local library so today I spent some time installing and configuring Jellyfin. So far, so good. I really like the clean interface and in some ways, I like it better than Plex. Sure, Plex has a few extra features, but it’s certainly not worth the frustration of this botched app “upgrade”.

[bovineblitz]

Not only has this rollout screwed up serving media in my own house, I remotely manage a separate server for my parents. I now need to coach two 80 year olds on installing APKs so the method they’ve been using to watch shows for the past several years is usable again.

This is ridiculous.

[dylanmsc]

Sounds like the impeccable user experience is progressing just as the Plex leadership envisions. Nothing like coaching elders on installing APKs to make you fall in love with a product.

[darthwars58_gmail_com]

The new experience is absolutely crap!! My mobile app updated and i cannot stand it!! I want the old version back!! The player on the mobile app is awful now!! You can not move the slide bar along anymore. Why fix something that isn’t broken and works amazing!!