Watchlist Not Working on PS4/PS5

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When they added the “streaming search” function it created a homepage tab called “Watchlist” where you can add title to it watch later. I added a bunch of my digital media titles to this list, but there is no way on the PS4 /PS5 to select plex as a way to play them, it just says streaming isn’t currently available. You can select your server when looking at the tab in the windows browser.

So the company that created a platform to collect, organize and stream your digital media added a feature that doesn’t allow you to play your digital media. Help me have this make sense? This watchlist is a nice feature to break away from creating playlists that replicate this, allowing users to keep playlists for more permanent reasons. That you can’t play plex server media flagged to the watchlist is just goofy.

If it’s a licensing thing then allow us to remove the streaming search feature permanently from our plex servers. I’m already not a fan of the new search bar on the window browser version (no longer loads a full page showing all the items from the search), and the streaming gimmick makes that worse. I paid for plex to sort my digital media, not to sell streaming platforms.

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I have a better question.

What is woking fine on PS5 ?
The whole app is completely broken. TBH, I don’t think I’ve had a single movie/show that’s given me clean playback on the PS5 yet. Have had it about a year and almost a half I think also…

Watching movie with Plex on PS5 is nightmare!

I mean, it’s a fair question. I’m having more luck than others, but I’m also accepting watching things at a lower resolution so they will play, when that is an option.

This watchlist gimmick is kind of the cherry on top for how dumb this app is right now. I would love to know how much of the client base who purchased lifetime passes did so to use it as a streaming service search bar as opposed to a way to stream their own personal media libraries. I wish I tested it before loading it up with vids from my personal library that I can’t access at all on the tab.

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