Server: Unraid Nvidia 6.8.2
Server Version#: 1.18.6.2368
Player: Amazon Fire-TV 4K Ultra
Player Version#: 7.28.0
Just installed latest Android release on our Fire-TVs. Tried to play first content and it’s back “Playback has stopped because the connection to the Plex Media Server has been lost”.
Ah, the new player is enabled again. Disabled the new player and voila, everything plays again.
Our house is full of Android devices. Every Plex update leads to lots of activities. We need to disable these forced changes in our settings.
Nearly half of our content does not work with the new player. This player is definetely not ready for public use.
Please, please don’t use our clients as a forced beta test for the new player. This is ridiculous.
To add to this, please make it so when we disable the new player, it stays disabled! Nothing more furious than turning on the TV and getting that error and having to go back into settings to disable the (awful) new player every other day.
It forces transcode when not needed, it goes to black screen after playing about three episodes on autoplay, the UI on it is more cumbersome, to name a few.
Why can’t they just make it so we don’t have to “upgrade” when we have it working the way we want.
I agree, I wish this got more attention as it’s really annoying and it feels like the plex dev’s are doing this just to mess with us, it’s stuff like this that make me wonder why I even bothered to pay for the plex pass, when it works I really do love the software, in fact, I love it when they give us a choice to try out beta’s like they did with the UI and if you didn’t want to or if you reverted back to the old UI they didn’t force you to use it until they officially rolled it out, unlike this new player were they’re not giving us the choice.
I’m beginning to think the best way around this is to find a way to disable client updates on the 4K firestick, which is a pitty, but until something is done about this I feel like I have no choice.
