Roku Preview has now been updated to the new experience (Plex would love to hear from us)

Found an update I like - Discover for Cast now works with Editions tags in my local library. This means if I click on an actor image from a details page it’ll now show movies in my library they are also in even if set with an edition tag. In the current UI that doesn’t work - it won’t show you titles with Edition tags.

I had a feature request for it here with details.

Now if you click on an actor in the Cast\Crew row it’ll show those Editions titles in the list and if there’s multiple editions it’ll add a +1 or +2 next to it.

The only hiccup is if you pick a title from there that has two editions it takes you to a screen that shows you two choices with no info for which is which and gets further confused if there’s multiple versions as well (only shows one version even if there’s two). Plex has had similar oddities with picking from multiple editions and versions in the current UI too so that’s not new but that’d be nice to improve.

Nice to see that working now. Small QoL thing. I’ll mark that feature request completed. :slight_smile:

The more I’m using the preview release the more intuitive it’s getting and honestly it’s mostly an improvement for me and I was extremely trepidatious. There’s still some oddities in extra clicks for some things but not things I use daily. I don’t use Photos or Music on my TV though and don’t have lots of Libraries to navigate - 1 movie, 2 TV - and customized my Home a bunch (see previous comment) so that helps for my case at least. :slight_smile:

I recommend folks with separate libraries for different resolutions look into combining those into just one library if they can. Plex handles version selection automatically better than it used to so less need these days. I made this change myself several years go and it’s been fine and is one reason switching out Plex for Emby or Jellyfin would be an extra hassle for me (they don’t handle multiple versions automatically). Just to give more context for my perspective on Experience.

@McWanke This thread is getting pretty long. Maybe it might be useful to take some of the repeating stumbling blocks and bugs that have been flagged - like using BACK to jump to Home instead of using the D-Pad or that the clock will be back in a future release - and put them in the top post maybe? Or a dedicated Pinned post with some of them like a FAQ for “new Experience tips for Roku users” or which reports bugs are on the books to be fixed? Just a thought as some folks are frustrated and understandably missing some already sorted things in the 140+ posts. :slight_smile:

Edit: Just tested this in iOS New Experience and it works way nicer there - shows all the editions separately including my custom posters for those editions (like the several Star Wars fan edits I have).

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