[joshstrange]

I'm with you on this, what features is Plex missing that other services have? Intro skipping was the big one that comes to mind and Plex was a bit behind the competition (if streaming services can be called that) but they also had to do it from a "zero knowledge" position (using ML to guess where the intro was, which was genius IMHO) verses being able to just hardcoded it per-episode.

[jjeaff]

Why would they need to use ML to find intros? Most implementations I have heard of just analyze the sound at the beginning of episodes and mark out the "theme song" that recurs.

[joshstrange]

Hmmm, well it might be that my memory is faulty and/or I read someone else's comment somewhere when the feature first launched that said it was using ML. But you are correct, both the initial blog [0] and the support article [1] makes no mention of ML, only audio fingerprinting. My mistake.

[0] https://www.plex.tv/blog/go-ahead-and-skip-that-intro/

[1] https://support.plex.tv/articles/skip-content/