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DESCRIPTION
Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in one easy to use application. Plex supports a wide range of video, audio and image formats without having to install any additional third party plug-ins or programs. Plex will make the days of trying to find the right plug-in to work with the right application a thing of the past.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 0.8.5:
- NEW: Plug-in preferences show up on the context menu for the plug-in itself.
- NEW: Auto-sourcing of remote Plex Media Server iLife plug-ins. Let's say you have a laptop with iTunes music, or your wife's iMac has iPhoto on it. No longer do you have to manually add the sources, or wonder if they'll work when you click on them. With the new version, sources add and remove themselves auto-magically thanks to Bonjour. Make sure you install the new Plex Media Server on the remote machines.
- FIX: A bug where Plex and the Plex Media Server could get out of sync and display the wrong contents for a directory.
- FIX: An issue when stopping music playback, where the GUI "clicks" don't restore and the playing track is still selected.
- FIX: Photo thumbnails were broken for plug-ins (thanks to orr721 for the report!)
- FIX: Hitting the menu button during a blank slideshow causes a crash. (thank to Majkel and other for the report!)
- FIX: When a track fails to play, Plex jumps into (blank) Now Playing screen anyway.
- FIX: Sometimes the photo screensaver started going "crazy fast".
- FIX: The new remote code logged too much.
- FIX: The duration didn't show up in plug-ins.
- FIX: You weren't returned to the main menu correctly from items added to your Favorites, or direct links to plug-ins in the Music section. Existing favorites will need to be removed and re-added. (James)
- FIX: The iTunes plug-in now sorts artists by the "sort artist" field in iTunes. This one is for Scott!
- FIX: Crashes with WebKit plug-ins that appear in the Music section.
- FIX: PlexHelper occasionally stopped responding (or responded incorrectly) to button presses.
- FIX: Sometimes Plex didn't start after the first run. Believe it or not, this was an OS X bug, now worked around.
- FIX: Plex hung when using the mouse wheel to scroll through text (thanks to hqrs for the report!)
- FIX: Changed the servers in the TVDB scraper to use the load balanced ones. (many thanks to kruisje for the fix!)
- FIX: Fixed a crash loading some RAW files.
- FIX: DTS-to-AC3 was broken in the last release. Thanks to our audio doctor Ryan who fixed it and improved the AC3 trancoding in the process.
- FIX: When you select "previous track" it now does the right thing with streamed content: moving to the start of the track or the previous track depending on how far along the track is (awesome, James!)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Plex User Reviews (45 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 25 2008 |
SERBIAN The best media center for Mac OSX...Easy to setup, works great and plays everything...What more do you want?
(Version 0.7.1) | |
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 | May 11 2009 |
E_COMMERCE An update to my previous comments. On the one hand, little has changed - initial setup and configuration is still decidedly arcane, and the updates are still the whole enchilada - 100MB per update now. However, they are coming at a much less furious rate, which helps. Don't let this be too discouraging. Once set up and configured it is an excellent, excellent media center, and has displaced Front Row on my home theater Mac Mini. It plays anything you throw at it, and launches in a fraction the time of Front Row. The user interface during playback is much more feature rich, and much more suited to HD displays. I really, really want to see this succeed.
(Version 0.8) | |
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| Dec 24 2008 |
AROAROS This app is wonderful, very active, the author is very helpful. The finish is a professional app that work flawless and very softly. The Media Center app of the year and I'm sure the 2009 winner.
(Version 0.7.2) | |
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| Dec 24 2008 |
FALKNERX this app is good, but check out Boxee, which is already impressive as an alpha
(Version 0.7.3) | |
| Jun 4 2009 |
MACGEEK19 This app is awesome! A super slick interface, awesome apps (Hulu, NBC etc) and its free. The best media server app available bar none.
(Version 0.8.1) | |
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| Mar 10 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Tends to be crashy, and also a lot of sizzle and not much steak. It's a complete pain to set up and configure, and nearly-daily 70MB updates are onerous. I'm not saying don't update it - in fact, please update the UI some - but learn to send out patches, not these HUGE full-on "updates".
(Version 0.7.13) | |
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| Mar 4 2009 |
MIO This thing looks pretty, but that's all it does. Every time there is a new version I, install it, try it a few times a throw it out. It has to resolve aliases, absolutely has to. Or at least symlinks. I store all my media on a few NAS boxes in the garage. Even if I put the locations in manually the next restart it forgets 3/4's of them and they need to be put in again. And then there are the other, ehm, quirks...
(Version 0.7.12) | |
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| Oct 28 2009 |
K01 USER "GREGMLR" Writes "What is a could-be awesome Front Row replacement is too difficult to get up and running. When using the Apple remote with Plex there are two major issues: 1) Navigating up and down through the main menu turns your system volume up and down as well 2) Hitting the "Menu" button to go back (like you do in Front Row) launches Front Row on top of Plex...... Ect. Information to all users that are using the 10.6 Snow Leopard OS with Plex 8.2 and Lower, Plex was not coded for Snow Leopard from version 8.2 -8.1 and lower. The New Plex Update 8.3 is Fully Snow Leopard Compatible and the "Remote Control" issues are Addressed. Directly to User User "GREGML" the Remote Control Issues that you hare experiencing have been due to Apple Changing the Remote Control API to a newer version, All Application that use the Remote control "Such as VMC,XBMC ect.." other then Apples own Applications had this Problem, Plex was not the Problem and was not to blame for the Issues. This Problem was All Over the Plex Forums and was Addressed, Please Next time got to the Forums to find out a cause then just blaming a piece of software as the sole problem of the event Apple had admitted it was a bug and has issued a fix to be included with the "Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update" to be released in a few day. Since Apple has not released a fix with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 update for the remote control problem Plex has included a fix in the New 8.3 update to Address Apples Problem with the help of Remote Buddy Author. Check it out Here. http://elan.plexapp.com/2009/10/23/snow-leopard-thaws-to-the-apple-remote-thanks-to-remote-buddy-author/ So No, Plex was not at Fault for the Remote control issues, it was Apple and a Brand New Release of Snow Leopard That has Caused Allot of Issues, You had indeed pointed the Finger at the Wrong Company. Plex 8.3 Has the Remote control fix, But it also should be included by Apple with the Next 10.6.2 Update in a Few Day's Give it a try, And as we all are aware a New OS can always cause Problems, as Plex and others have said from the Start. if you Use Plex with Leopard 10.5.8 stick with it and wait till Apple fixes the Snow Leopard Issues, But Plex has went a step Further and has fixed Apple's Remote Problem For Them... Thats Dedication and Allot of Hard work for a "FREE Piece Of Software" very Helpful Developers of Plex Would You Not Say . ;-) I See Nothing to Complain About at All.
(Version 0.8.3) | |
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| Nov 5 2009 |
STORMCHILD Except Maybe your Arbitrary Use of Capitalization. While you're At It, "why not" ° Throw In @ bunch of Arbitráry punctuation and Other $ymbøls too.
(Version 0.8.3) | |
 | Aug 10 2009 |
SOULSLAVE still waiting for the subtitles search option like in boxee
(Version 0.8.2) | |
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| Nov 26 2008 |
STELLAROLA Plex Seven has been a much easier experience over previous builds. All my libraries have scanned and it automagically finds thumbnails and fanart for the background. Great work!
(Version 0.7.1) | |
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| Sep 3 2008 |
STORMCHILD At this point in the game, I'm not going to complain too loudly about it, but I'm disappointed that this is Intel-only. There's probably some reason why it doesn't support PowerPC; an app written in Xcode would usually compile for both, but since this was ported from another platform, that might not be the case with this one. But in any case, I guess I'll have to wait until I get a new Mac to try this out.
(Version 0.5.15) | |
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| Oct 6 2008 |
SCIFI
and I am unable to use this app because it is Leopardonly. Cmon developers, stop leaving us out in the cold like this. It is not our fault we cannot use Leopard blame Apple for that decision (mostly).
(Version 0.5.21) | |
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