Right, that’s the key difference, if you are using Plex you have spent a lot of time curating your library and generally aren’t looking for “discovery” information, where if you are paying for a service with tons of unknown music, then “discovery” information is more useful.
FWIW, on iOS you can also tap Similar Artists and get a grid view of those. I’ve never updated my Android apps and have no plans to do so until they get done with their work. iOS auto-updates.
On the web app (server) Similar Artists is a hyperlink to its grid view.
Yeah, the most recent version for Android now shows up to 12 albums and adds “Show All” when there are more. Better than the last update, but still not as good as what it was. And I’m still bumming they haven’t reintroduced show the release year in the album thumbnail.
The date is displayed on iOS, under the thumbnail title. I suspect the code changes are being done by two different teams – not necessarily in the same order.
Maybe they’re coming for your date next! 
It’s great that vertical scrolling has been restored to most of the app., But several pressing issues remain. Header sections under content are still not clickable like on ios. Actor thumbnails are not clickable like they are on ios making the whole new unified platform design seem incomplete and most importantly inconsistent between platforms. I’m glad the team is addressing feedback please continue to and address these issues so that this new unified platform design becomes better than the previous version because, in my opinion, it has great potential.
Haha! Just noticed on iOS, tapping any of the text labels on the Home screen now switches to grid view for that section. Videos too, even the Plex-supplied ones. Dates under video titles on my videos only – not on the Plex videos.
Also noticed that all text labels are hyperlinks on the web app. They’re actually obvious when hovering over them with the mouse.
Yeah, that works on the home screen for Android too, but none of this is very consistent. Under the web app for artist, they still show all albums with release year when looking at an artist, for example. Hopefully they won’t “fix” that too…
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Please tell me this is going to be changed back to showing all albums by default. I have to agree completely with pawn here, it is a frustrating UX decision to require an extra click in order to see all the albums of an artist.
I keep my audibook library in Plex and when I’m book 13+ of an author, it gets very annoying have to click on the see all button to get to that album every time I listen to it; especially since it was not like that in previous versions. Definitely a regression in usability.
Have you considered to display the library by albums?
They will still be sorted by album artist first…
I’m just glad it was restored. The extra tap doesn’t bother me but it should be more obvious on iOS. Just a simple Albums > or Albums… would suffice… anything to make it obvious that there are more than 12. (iOS doesn’t have a separate Show All like Android)
In a perfect world, the user should be able to select the default: grid or horizontal.
This is a problem in general with the app. With nearly 1k artists it takes a bit to get to the Zs. Why is there not a way to grab the position bar and move it much like one does in a window on the computer or maybe grab the letter that pops up when you scroll for a faster scroll.
The position bar works on iOS. On Android, it’s next to useless.
I have a show all button and I’m on iOS, it’s on the top right side of the album section
Today, I have Show All and grid view is the default once again. The app must have been auto-updated in the last day or two.
I don’t see the reasoning for initially displaying only 12 albums… ??? I can’t think of a logical reason where that would be helpful. In some cases, it probably saves a tiny bit of bandwidth/data.
I think they don’t want bury what’s after the album section. Like similar artists. Can’t think of another reason. But since allmusic can only provide that data for popular artists that point is also moot.
That was probably the reasoning behind horizontal scrolling, in the first place. On Tour is kind of useless these days.
To some degree it doesn’t matter what their rationale is, the heart of the issue is, most Plex users are interesting in seeing their media collections, not in various web scraped information that Plex thinks is interesting. It’s fine to have that, but it should be secondary to our media collections and not taking priority over it.
Unfortunately, I think this is a losing battle. This new “free Live TV” integration (along with their previous moves in these areas) is further evidence to me that Plex’ business plan is to move away from media collectors and toward offering streaming content, which ultimately explains why they are prioritizing their content over our own.
The moblie app and android TV app are terrible for large collections in movies and TV shows
I’ve noticed the same thing selecting a large collection has an odd loading delay.
