Im Hoping that im having the same concern as others on here.
Ive been reluctant to update my plex server for exact reasons like this. I was running on a old version (1.21.1)(dec 17 2020) for ages. But over the years ive been having the odd issue with casting and whatnot. And thought it would be time to update to the latest plex server ( 1.31.2). What an absolute mistake that was. I was originally chasing down a flac/chromecast audio casting 24bit direct audio pass-thru issue.
As im sure others here also use the “grid” display mode for music. I have mine very particularly setup when using the web GUI. Music, show tracks, sort by date added. This allows me to see the new tracks that i add bit by bit to my server, and shows the album art of the album on each track when in grid mode. Makes it really easy for me to scroll thru and see the album i want just by remembering the photo. Also helps visually see the separate albums and tracks when ive dropped in a discography or such.
Now the only way to see the individual tracks is with the absolutely ugly table view. I am still able to sort by “newly added” but i have to read the album name which is very difficult to do when your scrolling thru 20,000 songs.
The other issue is, i would typically play a song from a album from the grid view, and it would continue to play in sequence of date added (basically creates a play queue of my entire library from that track forward) which worked great. now that is virtually impossible. When you view “albums” from grid view (only option available now). it will only play that album then stop.
Anyways, now i have to figure out how to revert back to a version of the sever right before they implemented this “feature removal” from the server app web gui.
After reading the release notes here
https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/412
Looks like maybe ( 1.22.2.4271) April 2021 is the one to avoid, and to try a older version? (they have a typo in the note for the version)
