I switched from a Shield running Kodi to Apple TV the moment I discovered Infuse. The interface was clean, the video player felt right, and I subscribed straight away—even though I didn’t need most Pro features—because proper artwork, sorting, and display matter a lot to me. It was love at first sight and I was so happy that I discovered it.
What I Loved
- Smooth playback on Apple TV
- A global playback-speed setting (though altering it on the fly, as Kodi allows, would be even better)
- That it all looked so nice, bright and modern. I used the si-o2 skin for kodi many years ago which is similar, but they stopped offering it sadly.
Roadblocks I Hit
- Season metadata
Some shows appear on TMDb as one giant season with hundreds of episodes. Without TVDB support, there’s no fix. - Missing thumbnails
TMDb often lacks episode images, and generating/uploading them one by one isn’t practical. - Playback-speed workflow
Setting speed per episode in Settings is slow compared with Kodi’s quick toggle. - Ability to manage the collections on pc website, with folders or anyhow easier that currently.
- Option to say I watched this entire series or this season. I could only tell it for every single episode, which was terrible.
My Plex Experiment
Even though I always hated Plex, I tried using Plex as the metadata source because it supports TVDB and other agents. After hours of reorganizing files and wrestling with Plex horrible bugs, I hit a new limit: Infuse shows my Plex content without collections—only playlists. Playlists just don’t work for serial content (after opening the show it only shows one episode instead of the series), and Plex’s own “collections” can’t be pinned inside Infuse.
Where Things Stand
Reluctantly, I now use Plex directly. Its player is weaker (no permanent speed setting, subtitles and audio tracks reset each episode), but its library is a lot more structured and just feels better and more practical and most importantly, shows a “Recently Added” row that covers my most-used collection, so I subscribed there and canceled Infuse.
What Would Bring Me Back
- Native TVDB (or multi-agent) support for richer, more accurate series data
- Automatic thumbnail generation when artwork is missing
- Pinned and browsable collections when using a Plex library
- Quick in-player speed controls like Kodi offers
Infuse still feels like home, and I’d return in a heartbeat if these gaps closed. Thanks for listening—I hope this feedback helps shape future updates.
I will always love you people and what you do, and I hope to return soon as a subscriber. Currently the display of no thumbnails and no season seperation bothers me more than anything else. It is a shame that there is not at least the option to show seasons after seperating them myself into folders and naming them correctly, or having an option to pay for tvdb. When I found out you used to have tvdb before, I was even more crashed. If I came earlier, you would had taken tvdb away from me, leaving the library as a mess suddenly.
