@Soundtweaker
How did you get the TV to find connected servers? My new TV can only find my receiver but not my desktop PC.
I have my tv wired to my network and it’s an lg 55c7p. Found my plex server under sources and I went into the folders as I used to with my DVD player many years ago. Looks like a DLNA. Plays 4k content without stuttering like mad. Same movie I play with the app and it’s is unwatchable. I cancelled my plex pass already. No need for the app anymore because they ducked it all up with this update.
Update:
I have my freenas box email me on the hour every hour of temps for my cpu/cores and drives and my temps went down a lot using it as DLNA than using the app. Top it off the files being viewed are mkv and I have it set to make my cpu hurt. Temps used to be 70-80c with the app watching 4k mkv. Now same movie without the app it’s 45c
I actually love the new update and finally we get a nicer larger poster grid layout and scrolling up and down instead of that garbage side-scrolling crap. The new UI is also much snappier. I pretty much like all the new changes except for the navigation for libraries above. I must agree that’s garbage and needs to be changed to something more intuitive. Also please don’t include libraries types I don’t have. That’s just stupid.
@“Allan Cameron” said:
I actually love the new update and finally we get a nicer larger poster grid layout and scrolling up and down instead of that garbage side-scrolling crap. The new UI is also much snappier. I pretty much like all the new changes except for the navigation for libraries above. I must agree that’s garbage and needs to be changed to something more intuitive. Also please don’t include libraries types I don’t have. That’s just stupid.
Hmm, my experience is the UI is slow, but that might be due to displaying in 4K.
@“Allan Cameron” said:
I actually love the new update and finally we get a nicer larger poster grid layout and scrolling up and down instead of that garbage side-scrolling crap. The new UI is also much snappier. I pretty much like all the new changes except for the navigation for libraries above. I must agree that’s garbage and needs to be changed to something more intuitive. Also please don’t include libraries types I don’t have. That’s just stupid.
Hmm, my experience is the UI is slow, but that might be due to displaying in 4K.
Doubt it, I also display in 4K. In fact I have the Xbox One X. Maybe because the One X is a lot more powerful? Are you using the One S or first gen? Ether way all xbox one versions should have no trouble with the Plex app performance. Runs like a champ for me. I just hope they redo the library nav.
@tropez773 said:
I’m not fond of the Xbox One app myself.
I generally use the Roku and prefer the layout on that. Having your libraries as a list on the left is just much more intuitive than bumping up and scrolling across. I also find it much easier (though I don’t doubt some of this is to do with experience) to select what I want to select.
The one thing I do like about the Xbox One app over the Roku is the actual movie pages containing headshots of performers and a quicker way to access other movies featuring the same actor. But that really is about it. Everything else about the app’s UI is poor to me.
THIS. I have a lot of libraries, 33 to be exact. When you have large libraries like me it is frustrating to navigate them with this new top menu, which really isn’t intuitive; I suppose if you have only a few libraries it isn’t bad. Other than that, I really enjoy the new update and features like tropez773 noted. Honestly, if the menu was returned to the left side of the screen it would be perfect. It would be great to be able to have the menu on the left, toggle it via an assigned button or double-tapping left on the d-pad, making Plex look really sleek.
I think they are trying to make the more alike, but I didn’t like the top navigation either. With large libraries, it’s somewhat clumsy to scroll through.
@“Allan Cameron” said:
I actually love the new update and finally we get a nicer larger poster grid layout and scrolling up and down instead of that garbage side-scrolling crap. The new UI is also much snappier. I pretty much like all the new changes except for the navigation for libraries above. I must agree that’s garbage and needs to be changed to something more intuitive. Also please don’t include libraries types I don’t have. That’s just stupid.
I agree, the ui is much faster at loading tv shows and movies etc, the only thing i dont like is the top navigation.
Switch to the library that playlist is comprised of and you’ll see the playlists in a hub on that dashboard.
So by “the playlists in a hub” you actually mean “RECENT PLAYLISTS”, correct? The same “RECENT PLAYLISTS” section that only shows 14 of my 25 playlists. The “RECENT PLAYLISTS” section that will never change because I can’t access my other 11 playlists to make them more “RECENT”. Using “Search” also doesn’t find any playlists, so that is about as useful as using dried snot to plug a hole in a leaky boat.
Oh wait, now I understand. I paid for a lifetime PlexPass subscription ages ago so there’s no need to actually keep in mind that there are paying customer using your product. Yes, product. A product that you charge money for.
Obviously the developers and designers are using a totally different version of the Plex XBox One app. If they were using the same version that they are spewing out to consumers these issues would be fixed faster than BitCoin is currently losing value.
Redesigning the UX is all well and good and for the most part I find the new design to be refreshing and different, but to push out a product that has such half-assed support for a highly requested feature is a disgrace. It would have been better to leave playlists out of the application until it was ready. As a previous poster mentioned, if this level of work was done for his employer people would be looking for other employment.
Just took an update with no visible improvement. Library navigation is still super painful, but even worse are the buggy media playback contols.
Please disable thumbstick skip fwd/back, and whatever pressing up/down does! We regularly accidentally skip when the controller gets bumped - pretty much multiple times a day - so frustrating.
The playback control UI should reset focus to the pause button when it hides.
Often can’t pause with a remote after starting a video.
I have a ps4 and xbox one s. I like the library navigation on the ps4 but the content layout on the xbox is much better. Just got a 4k tv so was hoping to switch to the xbox plex client, but that navigation is horrible when trying to switch libraries (which I apparently do a lot). Please move the library selection back to the left, get rid of that top navigation.
@dvsjeepers said:
I have a ps4 and xbox one s. I like the library navigation on the ps4 but the content layout on the xbox is much better. Just got a 4k tv so was hoping to switch to the xbox plex client, but that navigation is horrible when trying to switch libraries (which I apparently do a lot). Please move the library selection back to the left, get rid of that top navigation.
I can see the appeal of top navigation icons if you’re on a single server with limited libraries, perhaps one library per icon… It’s when it gets into multiple libraries across multiple servers where the grouping gets very cumbersome. I shuffle back and forth a lot too, and the horizontal lists in order by last used are… a pain point.
From a UI perspective, if they fixed that ONE thing, I’d be back on board.
@dvsjeepers said:
I have a ps4 and xbox one s. I like the library navigation on the ps4 but the content layout on the xbox is much better. Just got a 4k tv so was hoping to switch to the xbox plex client, but that navigation is horrible when trying to switch libraries (which I apparently do a lot). Please move the library selection back to the left, get rid of that top navigation.
I can see the appeal of top navigation icons if you’re on a single server with limited libraries, perhaps one library per icon… It’s when it gets into multiple libraries across multiple servers where the grouping gets very cumbersome. I shuffle back and forth a lot too, and the horizontal lists in order by last used are… a pain point.
From a UI perspective, if they fixed that ONE thing, I’d be back on board.
I’m one of the folks that prefer the top navigation as I have limited libraries/servers. BUT, there’s enough outcry on the forums that Plex really should do something to help those with multiple servers and more libraries. I do not understand why Plex is completely ignoring the UI complaints. At a bare minimum, wouldn’t it help to be able to select the server rather than having it automatically include all servers? Is it really that hard to implement a simple solution like “server selection”? It’s been months and there’s been no mention of a fix for the navigation challenges that many have mentioned. Very disappointing.
@mbarylski said:
I’m one of the folks that prefer the top navigation as I have limited libraries/servers. BUT, there’s enough outcry on the forums that Plex really should do something to help those with multiple servers and more libraries. I do not understand why Plex is completely ignoring the UI complaints. At a bare minimum, wouldn’t it help to be able to select the server rather than having it automatically include all servers? Is it really that hard to implement a simple solution like “server selection”? It’s been months and there’s been no mention of a fix for the navigation challenges that many have mentioned. Very disappointing.
Actually, I’m hoping the delay is a good sign. They’ve redesigned their UI experience from the ground up, with a plan to roll it out to every client system. No small task at all, which probably took a year or more to plan and program.
The Xbox is early in the rollout, and I’m hoping the commentary has caused them to rethink the UI before rolling it out further. If they are making considerations for feedback, then altering the library navigation would be a huge programmatical undertaking.
Imagine you’re Chevrolet and you’re in charge of the Corvette design. You’ve decided, you believe with good business reason, that the engine should be moved from the front to the rear, and that it should become a front wheel drive car, rather than a rear wheel drive one. No small task, years of planning and execution. (I believe this is actually happening at Chevrolet BTW) You roll out your new car, super happy with your accomplishments and the public starts complaining about the front wheel drive. Rolling that single aspect back is easy, right? No… It’s a fundamental part of the new design you’ve rolled out.
So, I’m hoping the pause and communication blackout mean that they’re really trying to figure out how to best address the issue.
In the middle of playing a movie, the app will just get stick on “Buffering” and never resume playing. This is incredibly annoying. I have been unable to play an entire movie from beginning to end in 3.5 months using Plex. This ONLY happens on the Xbox One. Clearly it’s an issue with the app.
Adding to the chorus of the frequent issue of getting stuck at “buffering” and the only way past it is to back out and start playback again since the new revision a couple months back.
Extending the transcoding timeout server side helps avoid getting stuck completely, but it continues to bounce in and out of buffering continuously after that. This only happens with the XB1 client, Roku/Android/Samsung Smart Hub/Web versions are all working fine as always.
