Plex is removing podcast support instead of fixing it

Plex began off as a straightforward approach to stream your video assortment to your different units, however the service has expanded considerably over the previous few years. However, not all that performance finally ends up being common, and now Plex is ditching support for podcasts and internet exhibits.

Plex stated in a discussion board publish, “as half of our ongoing effort to verify we’re spending our time and power in ways in which finest serve our superior person group, we’ve made the choice to finish support for Podcasts and Web Shows inside Plex. We acknowledge this choice will affect a number of of you drastically, and we apologize for the inconvenience it will trigger. You can proceed to entry these options inside Plex till Friday, April fifteenth, 2022, at which level they may now not be obtainable.”

Plex first added support for podcasts in 2018, which didn’t require a devoted server like most of the service’s different options — audio information have been downloaded from the supply to your machine, like another podcast participant. However, the performance didn’t change a lot after that time, and lots of bugs seemingly have been by no means mounted. Multiple threads on the Plex boards identified ‘On Deck’ usually didn’t work, listening to a podcast episode added all of its episodes to the play queue, some platforms didn’t have a functioning indicator for listened episodes, and different points.

Web shows were also added to Plex in 2018, which contained curated content material from publishers like Engadget, GQ, TechCrunch, Popular Science, and Ars Technica. It was principally simply video content material that was already accessible by means of YouTube.

Plex says you’ll be capable of export your record of podcast subscriptions in customary OPML format, which may then be imported by most different podcast functions. The full directions can be found on the supply hyperlink under.

Source: Plex Forums