Looks pretty but not reliable
Im looking for an app to make my media truly mobile and accessible from anywhere. PLEX is decent at establishing a home server, although with some bugs. The mobile "cloud synch" is challenging. Uploads to a cloud server of your choice take a very long time, require an unnecessary conversion process, and once uploaded adjustments made any change to the file once uploaded makes it invisible to PLEX. Uploads thru the PLEX process take about 4x longer than simply adding the file directly to your cloud server of choice. At it sometimes fails.
The PLEX interface is beautiful, but the cloud synch option isnt reliable. Plus, the Apple TV app do ant like to your cloud server at all.
Check out "Its Playing Pro", which is an alternative app that plays files DIRECTLY loaded onto and DIRECTLY off Dropbox. The quality of play is great and it doesnt care if your move, rename, or adjust the files. Plus because it plays files directly uploaded to Dropbox, this allows you to populate your cloud library directly without conversion and syncing (literally 4x faster). If PLEX could take its beautiful interface and do what this app does, it would be the perfect app. It will be watching for that, but until then I will go with the less pretty, but much more efficient and reliable option.
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