It's all the more infuriating because so much of what they do is based on open source stuff (the original version was based on XBMC, though I think little of that is left now), but they don't open source anything themselves. I'd love to take a dig through the code to maybe fix these issues myself but I can't.
There is a rival service, Emby, which is open source:
Last I looked their frontend apps were lacking (and that's not an area I can help in, sadly) but it might be time to take another look.
All the non-iOS apps also feel slow and eat battery on modern hardware.
This app is a solution to all that for music. Cool. But why can't the regular app just be good?
Really, the only use-case I see where Plex beats Kodi is if you have all of your media stored in the cloud. But I feel like for real media die-hards, that very quickly becomes impractical (e.g. I have about 3 TB of pictures / music / video and storing that all on Amazon S3 servers would run me hundreds of dollars a year).
The reason I pointed out Emby is that it has all the features Plex does that Kodi does not. Kodi has some stuff available by plugin but matching the features I require from Plex has never been possible.
The previous being ffmpeg which they openly admit to have internally forked in the swedish podcast kodsnack.
They must publish their code modifications to comply with GPL.
When is a good time to take these freeloaders to court?
Still looking for that post
