From the blog post:
" * 2025: We are planning to expand device support for Plex Photos, while deprecating music and photos playback in the primary Plex (movies & shows) application. This means that by early 2025, the Plex app will be entirely focused on the discovery of movies, shows, TV, and fellow fans."
So, that appears to say that by early 2025 we won’t be able to listen to music through our Roku TVs using the Plex app like we’ve been doing for years. Now, I can manage my music libraries with the Plex app on my PC and then listen to the music through the Plex app on the TVs (the main ones of which have been outfitted with good external speakers to enhance their use for listening to music). Is there any statement from Plex about when/whether there will be a Plexamp or other dedicated Plex music app for the Roku TV that will work the same way (i.e., be managed on the PC and listened to on the TV)?
I’ve never messed with Plexamp as the main Plex app does everything I need for it to do for my home music listening, but everything I’ve read about it so far seems to focus on its use on phones or other mobile platforms. I have no desire to deal with phone/mobile apps in connection with my main home music experience, so I hope they’re not planning to replace the current Plex app music capabilities with some phone/mobile-based app.
Unfortunately Plex seems to be continually running away from its original focus (or at least, from my interest in/interpretation of its original focus). I was originally sold on Plex as a great way to manage the media content I already have, and up to now it’s been doing a great job of that. However, I have ZERO interest in using Plex for “the discovery of [other] movies, shows, TV, and fellow fans”, which unfortunately looks like it’s going to be their entire focus for 2025 and beyond.
