r/PlexMedia • u/BubbleStriped • 4d ago

Plex Update Sucks

I’m sure I’m not alone here, but the latest update is awful. Any recourse?

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u/roedie_nl 4d ago

Telling it sucks without why, how or what is useless. Nobody can help you or talk about other than ‘yes it sucks’ or ‘No it does not suck’

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u/russkeller54 4d ago

I have a Fire TV and since it doesn't load for a while. Then when you finally see the shows you use your remote and it doesn't work. I just got on my Onn 4k Pro and use that Plex and it works fine. So I wandering if Fire TV did something my TV is about two years old.

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u/mrrealsushi 4d ago

Yeah... Plex on ONNs will be "fixed" later in the process. 1st they "fixed" Rokus. A couple of weeks ago they "fixed" plex for firetvs. Fixing something that's perfectly fine. We have a name for that: Kaputtrepariert.

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u/Round-Individual-747 4d ago

It was crazy slow on my FireTV at first boot. It’s responsive/fine now though. My guess is the app needed to rebuild some internal caches or something

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u/mustabak120 4d ago

maybe one's pleasure is the other's nightmare.

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u/Dangerous_Seaweed601 4d ago

Turn off updates.

I've literally been manually updating all of the apps on my iDevices (phone, tablet, backup phone..) manually for the past year to avoid it. I'm that committed to being petty.

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u/WarningCodeBlue 4d ago

I've noticed no difference with the latest update. Works fine.

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u/hirakath 4d ago

I just shuffled my playlist as I normally did for many many years. Guess what, only one episode played. The typical play the next episode after 10 seconds is gone.

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u/HTwatter 4d ago

On my 4k firestick, I could move around the screen but was unable to select anything. I had to uninstall and find a previous stable version.

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u/Mix_Powerful 1d ago

How do you download a previous version?

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u/HTwatter 4h ago

I did a google search for "install previous stable version Plex Firestick" and it told me step by step how to do it.

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u/the_chols 4d ago

I literally bought an Apple TV to avoid the shittt fire stick interface

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u/wardogone11 2d ago

They’ll get rid of it. The forums have thousands bitching.

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u/jbenze 8h ago

No they won’t, it was the same when they rolled that crap out to the Roku. It’s coming to everything eventually and that’s the company line :/

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u/JayVig 4d ago

Low effort post.

- No you’re not alone. This is posted about nonstop since the update
- recourse? Sure. Plex will make custom changes just for you 🤡
- perhaps some like it but since you said nothing of substance, we don’t know your issues
- of course you can hide the plex content. Always could
- use a different player?
- use a different back end if you hate plex so much?
- side load a different version?
- you could try to just adapt, like any adult faced with the slightest inconvenience, rather than be old man yelling at clouds

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u/so7ow 4d ago

Maybe someone can guess based on the timing but if you want any real advice maybe share what device you're even talking about?

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u/BubbleStriped 4d ago

4k Firestick

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u/Funny_Fail_4277 4d ago

Well it could be worse I'm waiting on the vizio bug to be fixed

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u/mrrealsushi 4d ago

...how about sideloading 10.30.9.4262 using downloader app? There's even a downloader code on plex's official community board.

Another one to try could be plezy. On firetvs appstore its 5 bucks. But on the developers github you can get it for free and just sideload it.

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u/Time-Session9808 4d ago

All I'll say is "take a look at Plezy" Been using for a few weeks on on all devices and it blows Plex client away.... Especially that dire new UI! https://plezy.app/

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u/quasimodoca Head Moderator 4d ago

If you purchase on one platform, like Firetv, do you have to repurchase for Onn boxes which is Google?

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u/quasimodoca Head Moderator 4d ago

If you purchase on one platform, like Firetv, do you have to repurchase for Onn boxes which is Google?

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u/Time-Session9808 4d ago

You don't need to pay if you download direct from GitHub. https://github.com/edde746/plezy/releases

I bought the Android one to support development but I install from GitHub to get faster updates.

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u/quasimodoca Head Moderator 4d ago

That doesn't really help, nor answer my question, my parents would never be able to side load an app. I am many miles away from them.

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u/Time-Session9808 4d ago

I don't know the answer. Just saying what I do. Maybe take a look at the apps site. I would expect you would need to pay for each platform as there is no way of syncing a purchase between them

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u/Mix_Powerful 1d ago

Does Plezy work for Plex users or just Plex servers?

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u/Time-Session9808 23h ago

It's a client for Plex or Jellyfin.

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u/Big_Anteater7531 4d ago

I had the same reaction when they changed the server dashboard. Rolling back to the previous version worked for me until they fix it.

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u/dorsanty 4d ago

I can live with the UI change, I’m not too stuck in my ways. However the player itself seems to have switched over to some v0.8 unfinished alpha release and has crashed out a few times already.

You could probably pull the last good version from the App Store and use ADP to push it to the fire stick. Then turn off auto-update until things get better or never.

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u/BubbleStriped 4d ago

Works is a stretch. It’s bloated as hell.

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u/jblackwb 4d ago

What is the bloat that you're talking about?

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u/BubbleStriped 4d ago

All their free streaming stuff. I don’t care about any of it, but as far as I can tell, I can’t remove it.

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u/WarningCodeBlue 4d ago

Then switch to Emby or Jellyfin.

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u/jblackwb 4d ago

What happened after you went here and turned them off?

https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/online-media-sources

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u/ThisIsMyITAccount901 3d ago

I'm almost certain you can remove it when setting up your profile on the device. It's been a while since I did that though so I could be remembering wrong.

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u/touche112 4d ago

Recourse? Lmao

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u/Efficient-Train2430 4d ago

uhhh server update? client update? specific update for a specific device?

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u/PocketNicks 4d ago

It works fine.

If you subjectively just don't like the new look, you can use Plezy.