Sorry this app is not great or even good at all it doesn’t work on my playstation, my android or a iPhone I keep getting error saying I should change my IP in order for it to work you people are lame I’ll stick to Netflix you can’t beat them and you never will Reply
Runs well on a simple android box I paid £12 for. I am only interested in using it for the free TV streaming it does and it does that fine. Content is a bit dated but there’s lots of it and if you don’t expect the very latest and very best for nothing you won’t be disappointed. Come on folks it’s a free TV streaming service let’s cut them a bit of slack, thank them for providing it free and be a bit grateful. Reply
The plex people are more interested in putting out the next new feature or application than supporting the existing ones. The clients are buggy and they don’t spend much time fixing bugs. Things linger for years and some are never fixed at all. For instance, the Android app won’t stream music consistently. Also, the clients have issues with audio/video synchronization. I wouldn’t waste your money on a paid subscription to this. Reply
It’s great app if you want to be prompted three times with the same username & password to log in then it says ‘Sorry there is a problem with your log in’. Then you delete Plex then reinstall it with a different username and the same issue happened. It’s great app if you want to be inundated with so many options that you have to learn and remember what they do. It’s great app if you want it to shove crap in your face you in various screens that you find annoying and will never use. It’s great app if you want convoluted options that you may not want but cannot delete or hide. Just trying to get it to consistently show all your videos & songs in a list rather than in tile mode is a PITA. It’s great app if you want Plex to reset everything back to default, after you’ve spent a lot of time customizing your screens. It’s great app if you like it to display stand alone movies in the folders of certain TV Shows that you have all the episodes saved for. But when you view those movies in Windows Explorer they ARE in their own folder. I’m going back to my ‘never fails me’ Raspberry Pi with OSMC installed that I simply attach to the back of my flatscreen TV (thru HDMI) 3) with double stick velcro tape and completely controllable with an OSMC proprietary remote control. Copy all the various format movies and OSMC play them without an issue. Reply
Plex sucks. Plex has gotten worse and worse since they have tried to expand. I will try emby because plex sucks so bad!!! I have plex on a media server, but the TV in the other room can’t bring up Plex, even when I bring plex server into the foreground. They just get worse and worse. And their Ninjias… Please! When I paid for Plex, these idiots never solved one single issue. Plex sucks, and if you are paying for it, you are an idiot! Reply
Been a Plex user for years now and have had great success with it. Really designed for streaming your own content, and excels here; the new features for streaming live TV and movies from places like Crackle are less interesting. Streaming movies, music, family videos, etc from the Plex server to iPads and Rokus works like a champ. Reply
I have to agree with the comments from Victor and Ephraim. I have been trying to use Plex for 11 months and it is constant issues and bugs, with no customer support. Today the “Live Tv & DVR“ that I paid $100 for just disappeared from the app. After an hour trying to find “support” (I.e. only from other users on Forums) I gave up. In 11 months I have had 5 or 6 issues like this. If you are tech oriented and enjoy tinkering with software you may enjoy Plex. If you just want to watch tv and video, there have to be better choices. Certainly you should not spend money on Plex. Reply
I don’t like Plex nearly as much as I used to. The interface makes less sense than it used to. When I go to my videos folder, I also see stuff from my TV folder, and movie folder. WTF? Why even have folders if everything gets dumped into one folder. If I have five videos in one folder, I want to see those five videos and nothing else. And I only want to see those videos one time each. Why must I have 20 channels that I never asked for, and don’t want? Half the time, scanning to update a folder does not work. I am presently looking for alternatives to Plex. Reply
Plex requires some hand-holding but most of the problems I am seeing in this thread seem to fall back into the user’s lap. It sounds like things not being configured properly vs. this app doesn’t work and it sucks! I have used Plex for years at home and for outside streaming and it just works. Minor issues will occur (metadata mistakes and whatnot) but as far as library settings go and managing my 1000+ movies and tv it pretty much does what it’s supposed to do. Is it perfect? No. But it does what it’s supposed to do, for me at least, and it does it very well. I run my server on an old Macbook Pro and connect to it and stream 5.1 audio to my main home theatre. My friends connect to it remotely just fine using Firetv and Roku. My Xbox connects to it fine as well. I even use it on my iPhone/iPad with the web interface. No Plex Pass required. Not sure what problems you guys are having but Plex doesn’t suck. Reply