As a reminder to all here, AND to put this into perspective…
PlexAmp on its very own had roughly EIGHT yrs of development and Plex Inc has only now attempted to rush the rest of the companion apps, Plex Movies & TV and Plex Photos, in under a few months? WTAF. That’s such an insane project timeline. Very suspicious, but definitely not how any of this should have gone.
Additionally, ANYTHING experimental that was being developed such as PlexAmp was supposed to stay in development purgatory under PLEX LABS. Plex Labs is where all of this should have been umbrellaed under. Why weren’t the Plex Movies and TV, and Plex Photos apps not kept under the PLEX LABS moniker?
Plexamp became publicly available on February 12, 2025. It was initially introduced on December 18, 2017, but the public release date for the version 3 of Plexamp was in 2025.
Again… I repeat this for emphasis. EIGHT FREAKIN YEARS!!!
How in the world did the executives and the project managers think they were going to pull all of this off, jam it into our faces, telling us “HERE! DEAL WITH IT” when many of whom had the pleasure, and well displeasure at the beginning, knew it would take at least a year, two, or even three before PlexAmp was going to turn into something special. Is it the Swiss Army Knife we all wish it was, especially with the tall order of paying homage to Winamp… and while the answer is still no, that PlexAmp has some way to go, it still had time to get polished.
I truly don’t know the real reasoning, there has been a bit of speculation, but it is sad to see the main Plex app itself be so torn into pieces and was awfully unusable two months ago at public release launch. Just wow.
