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Plex Is Reversing an Unpopular Part of Its App Redesign (www.howtogeek.com)
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[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From the article;

I think that this debacle could've been avoided if Plex had just taken a more careful approach with its app overhaul.

So, they separated out their photo app from the rest of it, and people got mad because they did a bad job of it. I don't see the problem. There's a lot of reasons to be mad at Plex, but them taking their photos service and putting it into a different app isn't plex trying to make things shittier for money. It's just the regular development required to keep things running well. Except for how badly they did it, apparently.

I don't use Plex. Never did. But I just don't see separating photos from the main app as anything worse than a side-grade. The article mentions how they didn't have a photo app for the TV users, which okay, that's worth complaining about, but if they had done that part right it would actually be less effort if all you wanted to do was display photos on your TV.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

context is key. like all recent major plex changes, this isn’t about making a better experience for users. it’s all about making their shitty ad-supported free streaming service as prominent as possible in the main Plex app. That is their new business, and all of the old self-hosting features are taking a back seat.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 20 points 3 days ago

Too late. They will try and make it shittier. Time to move on

[–] ushmel@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago

Good. I was annoyed that I had to Bluetooth to my stereo from my phone because they took music out of my Shield app and don't have Plexamp available.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry! It'll come back at a different time, under a different name, with less announcements around it.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

What will come back?

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

Well it's kind of good to see them listening to user feedback.

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Please let me sync my entire music library locally to my phone Plex!

[–] ashzilla@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can’t you already do that with Plexamp?

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nope. It would be perfect if you could, but you have to select individual playlists which doesn't work if you want auto updating smart playlists based on your entire library. I think there's also some overall max amount of songs you can have.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And they limit the max amount of songs you can offline in a playlist.

I've got a playlist of ~2500 songs that I use for long term no-internet situations that I leave in shuffle. Plexamp will only offline 1/4 of the playlist, and not letting me properly shuffle it.

Developer response to this? "why would you ever want to offline that much music when you can stream it data is cheap" actual dumbasses.

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess they have never heard of airplanes or camping. It's a pity because otherwise it's one of few choices that has everything else I need.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've been on Symfonium for ages, and it is the best experience with a music app I've ever had.

I've not tried it with plex, as I use navidrome. But I assume the experience with a plex server is just as good.

Supoort is great, the dev is super active on his own forum etc.

The app is paid though, but it's a one time purchase. (it has a free trial!)

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does it have local syncing to an iOS app?

[–] vodka@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Oh right, iOS.. Yeah no good alternatives to plexamp then.

[–] ashzilla@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Oh ok fair enough, I don’t use playlists and didn’t know there was a max, haven't run into it yet

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You don't need Plex for that. A simple local music player will do just fine if you always want your whole library stored locally.

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I want it locally on my phone and my computer and both synced with smart playlists.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You could use Syncthing (and syncthing-fork on android), but I don't know how playlists are stored, but you can potentially sync that too.

[–] realitista@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is the Plex music library in a standard file system format that can be accessed locally on iOS?

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

No, apple forces you into their services and the cloud. Self-hosting is practically not an option with iOS, or at least a much worse experience.

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

No. I'm not aware of a good way to sync music to the built-in iOS player; you have to go through iTunes.

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

So what about AirPlay?