Thanks for the report. We have this issue filed and will investigate.
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3rd times the charm 
Can you PLEASE fix the duplicate posters showing up in hub/rows.
Itās painful to have to scroll past the same movies multiple times.
Iām not positive but I believe this is for hubs that are Smart Collections with Random sort.
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To suggest that I could get my 90-year-old Mum to use headless Plexamp or even casting is just asinine.
She accesses my music library every day using the Plex app on her TV. Itās a bit clunky, but it works, she can use it, and the sound quality is as good as headless plexamp anyhow.
Seems we are moving from a situation where there is a solution for a common use case to a situation where there is no solution.
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Me not having psychic powers to know about you and your Momās situation when trying to provide options to help someone else that wasnāt you is āasinineā? What the heck is that about? Got some entitlement issues or what?
Getting sniped at by random users and plex reps silent again. Guess thatās burned out any second chance good will on my end.
Edit: Experience on Roku seems fineā¦ just get some of the oddities sorted out.
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So am I understanding correctly that music libraries are just being removed entirely from Roku? Without any alternative on Roku? Because if so Iād say thatās pretty unacceptable.
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My 91 year old Mom watches by video content on her Roku TV and listens to HER music on her PC running PMS - music and, if the photos interface was better, that is what she got her Plex Pass for .. 
If Plex doesnāt come out with standalone music apps for televisions, sheās going to be without music and a useless Pass.
Like your Mum, itās fantastic they can use the Plex app for all their needs, but asking them and the countless others to ditch Plex for music and switch to something else is a terrible, said access sobering thought.
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I wasnāt callling you or anything you said asinine. My apologies if it came across that way.
However, the attitude from Plex seems to be that they can remove music from TVs and expect users to switch to casting or headless Plexamp instead. Now that expectation is asinine.
I may have found a solution for her in Symfonium. That has made dramatic strides in the last couple of months and I think I can set it up so she can get to her smart playlist in a few moves of the remote interface. If not now, then very soon at the rate it is progressing.
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Being removed from ALL clients, along with Photos.
(Glad I have my Squeezebox Radio 
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@ljunkie Not sure if this is intentional and whether it only appeared in the latest version 8.0. Build 5 but it seems that libraries that arenāt favorited are staying persistent at the top of the screen.
Iām pretty sure this wasnāt the case in earlier builds. And it clutters up the screen where one would expect to only see the libraries weāve favorited / pinned.
This behavior is dissimilar to how Experience behaves on other devices.
They stay up there even after exiting and restarting the App. The only way to clear it from the top bar with the libraries is to choose another library and then click the ālibraryā tab again at which point in finally clears.
If this is intentional, would it be possible to get an option to āremember / not rememberā other libraries viewed?
There was a bug that fixed multiple sources being āselectedā at once
Fix for multiple Libraries or Live TV sources being selected at the same time.
This bug also affected how non-favorited sources were included/removed, as they were not handled correctly. I will file a follow-up so the team can take a closer look and verify the behavior.
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Can I remove this? I donāt need āLibrariesā on my Home Screen twice and I donāt want to click past a libraries row every time I want to get to the rest of my Home content.
I really want it gone or at least be able to move it to the bottom. This change makes me not think Experience is āfineā anymore.
I donāt know why ālibraryā access is put in two prominent locations at all but at least on touch screens itās a scroll distance and not multiple clicks.
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Why? Itās an extra row for no reason when thereās already a Libraries link at the top which can be easily reached by using the back button.
Agreed.
Real estate on a TV interface is way more precious than it is on anything with a touch interface. You can scroll with the flick of a finger past inches of whatever. With a TV, itās repeated clicks, and minimizing those to get to stuff is ideal.
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Plex released an update to the Plex preview channel- 8.1.0
NEW:
- Add Browse Libraries hub to Home.
- Display shows and seasons in a single tabbed screen.
FIXES:
- Fix a crash opening More Ways to Watch.
- Fix art zoom when returning to a screen.
- Fix playback issue with suggested items on the Up Next screen.
@ljunkie, how about an option to turn this on/off
EDIT: I see Iām not alone on this 
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Still all the wasted space on the left for Live TV, how hard would it be to put those guide selections back on top of the guide like it was. Also still all the bugs weāve been waiting years to have fixed like reliably time shifting live TV, especially when multiple devices streaming the same station.
My only use of PLEX was Music, Photos and LiveTV. 2 of the 3 are now gone and the third has been crippled worse than it was. It just seems like another round of churn for no reason.
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I believe Music libraries are only being removed from the Plex client apps. Portable devices that correctly have the Plex Amp app will continue to be developed.
There have been no plans (but are being ādiscussedā! on whether to develope Plex Amp clients for other āTV basedā clients.
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Straight up removing music and photos from all client apps without a working replacement is crazy with a capital C. How many people are paying for Plex just to be able to watch slideshows on the TV while playing music? I personally know many in my family alone.
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What I will say is that we absolutely hear (and feel) the feedback around music and photos. We also havenāt crossed the new experience tv threshold yet - so currently today there are still solutions on every platform for music and photos (dedicated apps on mobile) and all production tv clients still have music playback. The response is resonating, and while I can only repeat that this is in discussion (because that is the honest truth), the right people are in the room and are listening and the concerns are being recognized. I look forward to either providing updates or be able to point to public messaging soon.
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