When I am sitting at the computer that is my server, using the Windows Plex Media Player, my lossless WMA files sound great. but if that is all I needed, I could just use Windows Media Player.
On EVERY other player I have tried (including the web interface on the same computer, the Android (on a phone and a smart tv), IOS, FireTV and XBox 1) Plex introduces skips and jumps that are enough to just wreck the listening experience and raise my blood pressure.
I used to assume this was a transcoding problem, but eventually dinking around with my settings I got the dashboard to show streaming without transcoding to the web player and the exact same skips were still present. So now I suspect the problem is with the streaming code rather than the transcoding, but that is of course a guess.
The skips are not random. They always happen in the same spots of the same songs every time.
This software really is useless to me if I can’t play my music on any device but my PC without these terrible skips and jumps.
Is there some arcane setting I need to look into?
Are you aware of this problem? Would it help me to sent a song file and tell you where an obvious skip is happening?
I have to admit, I feel foolish asking as Plex has established a certain reputation with me. But I’d be delighted to be proven wrong.
bump. the icy silence from Plex continues. Ignore, and maybe the customers you hold in such contempt will just go away… the topic will, afterall, close in 3 months…
Nope. Had a moderator ask me a question, and then nothing but silence.
Not sure what the point of having a media server that trashes my media is. This software sucks and the support is non-existent.
Emby streams WMA just fine, so I don’t know why plex can’t, but Emby’s offline mode is near useless and they cannot stream over cell data. I don’t have the money to keep throwing at media servers that do not work.
The good news is that 1TB SD Cards are here and reasonably priced. So I can just load about half of my library onto my phone in lossless WMA format and then use PowerAmp to play the files (better than Google Play Music because it doesn’t ignore track numbers on large libraries and it tracks my progress through playlists if I ask it to, which is awesome for resuming play across things like huge box sets of classical music… But Google Play does a better job of random playing by genre, so I still use that sometimes), and then bluetoothing the PowerAmp or Google Play Music into whatever stereo I am near. All my stereos have bluetooth now, so with the advent of large capacity SD Cards, I don’t really need to mess with this craptastic software anymore.
I would still like this fixed, since I would like access to all my music instead of just half, but this has been broken for years. I figure if plex gave a crap, they’d have done something by now. But they seem to rather want to compete at other things they are not good at rather than fixing their bugs or ‘broken by design’ issues.
Thanks. vsetter9. A very consistent problem - across 1000’s of tracks and always in the same place on each track. I gave up waiting & have spent a few evenings converting everything to FLAC. They play flawlessly from NAS.
