Tried Plex as daily music player - disappointing

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I am on latest Plex version on server side and android app on my note 9. I also have Plex set not to save power in android OS and it has 30GB cache.

But I find Plex as music player to be unreliable and disappointing.

Issues:

  1. Offline mode, get loading message when trying to play sync’d files
  2. When an incoming call comes, i answer and after ending it, the plex app disappears from notification and therefore doesnt auto start playing
  3. Random crashes, no error, nothing, it just as if it wasn’t open
  4. When try to play some songs, it asks me to resume from a certain point where I left off - this feature on music player doesn’t fit in
  5. Sometimes controls from notification panel or within player won’t work and plex will just keep playing
  6. Sometimes it won’t register my bluetooth headphones play, skip track commands, if I open another music player and try play it receives all commands.
  7. It doesn’t cache album artwork well, tends to show default artwork till you press on album and it connects
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I have to agree with you here. IIRC it’s initial implementation didn’t even have a play queue or a shuffle button.

I’ve come back to it recently and it works fine for the most part except the sync refuses work after restarting/deleting/reloading etc. basically everything I can think of. Issues with syncing large libraries seems to be a common problem with the mobile app.

I’m quite baffled at how doing a one-way sync of a bunch of static files can be so damn difficult.

The prospect of having a DIY spotify/play music where I can just cache my entire library locally is REALLY enticing but with Plex it’s just not there yet.

Additionally the mobile app doesn’t seem to remember my view preferences which is frustrating because I hate tile views lol.

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on the server, go to the Music Library settings (Music>Manage Library>Edit>Advanced) and uncheck the box that says “Store Track Progress”

Agreed, this is annoying. But for things like this, make a feature request, same with most of the rest of your post. “Make a more robust Music Experience” and request these features added…

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I have gone back to Subsonic and it’s great, disappointing plex results and the list I created it’s nothing advanced, it’s just basic ingredients in making stable app for music play

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