That said, I have to say that it is very buggy. It takes an awful lot of time to become functional after having been launched and seems to attract a lot of spinning beach balls. Furthermore, there’s this annoying bug where if you’re filling in the movie details manually and tabbing to each form element serially, you get stuck on the release date one and cannot proceed to the MPAA rating field. In fact, there’s no alternative at that point but to force quit the application, which discards all your changes.

So yeah, it’s buggy and you might want to fix that. Gruber once wrote that you do not have the right to charge for software that’s clearly in beta and I completely agree. If I’d paid even $10 for this app, only to later find out about these flaws, well, I would’ve been mighty pissed.

That’s just honest and hopefully constructive criticism. I wish you guys luck in all your endeavours—you clearly have talent.

As for Plex, well, we can start with the fact that Multiplex is 2.8 MB, while Plex is 108 MB. Plex is home-theater software, Multiplex is a movie cataloging solution. Our plans are for Multiplex to continue to concentrate heavily on DVD collections, and streaming those movies out to your existing components, like your PS3 and other DLNA/UPNP compatible devices.

Plex does look cool, but the way it would work is that Multiplex would stream to Plex, just like we are working on streaming to Boxee, etc.

Anyway, I hope you like it

Oh yeah sure. How are those Safari 4 tabs working out for you?

While I still haven’t checked out Plex (Phil is doing that with his new Mac mini, Multiplex is mainly used for cataloguing DVDs and more DVDs. Think of it like Delicious Library, but a really useful one. Still, not saying Mtpx is better than Plex as I haven’t checked out the latter.

And it does recognise Matroska files. I still prefer Plex, even though this one has a better, more native interface. For one thing, Plex has a much better cataloguing system. For another, it is also a movie player and plays 1080p content smoothly, unlike QuickTime Player, which is what Multiplex uses. Furthermore, Multiplex doesn’t support anything apart from movies, not even television shows. And I presume it does not work with the Apple Remote.

This, I guess, is why Apple only releases software when it’s ready to use and fully-featured. I mean, once you’ve met disappointment is earlier versions, it’s difficult to convince yourself to return to an application when the final version is later launched.