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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.

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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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Developer:Plex
Downloads:49,458
  - Version d/l:2,399
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Free
Date:19 Nov 2009
Platform:Intel
RATING
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Nov 5 2009

STORMCHILD  Still crashes on quit. It has done this from day one, through all of the updates, and every OS version I've tried it on. I've deleted the preferences and started with a fresh install several times, to no avail.

You'd think eventually the developer would be able to resolve this issue, but apparently not.

The Candelair remote driver helps restore the functionality of the Apple Remote, but even with that installed, I find the remote support very flaky in Plex. The Menu button often fails to go back; I end up getting stuck in some areas, and have to walk over to the keyboard to press the Esc key, which is rather annoying and pretty much defeats the whole purpose of having a remote. At one point the remote just stopped working at all. I went to quit/relaunch Plex to see if it would resolve the issue, when I discovered it's still crashing on quit (like it was when I stopped using it months ago), and here we are.  
(Version 0.8.3)

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Nov 20 2009

K01  At of all the hundred's of thousands of users, that don't have a problem with Plex one has to wonder what the real problem is.

Sometimes it is just the users machine or just the user.  
(Version 0.8.5)

praisebury
0

Oct 29 2009
**...

EGGSHELL  This app is a fine example of what happens when aesthetics gets priority over usability .   
(Version 0.8.3)

praisebury
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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)

praisebury
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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)

praisebury
-3

Oct 27 2009

MONKEYJUNKEY  Thanks for regaining control over the Apple Remote. And keep up the work on this. It's getting better with each release...  
(Version 0.8.3)

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Oct 26 2009

SOULSLAVE  i like a lot how Plex looks but is missing a lot of boxee's (which is ugly) utilities, specially: the ability to search for subtitles and app channels (SPECIFICALLY JUSTIN.TV!!)  
(Version 0.8.3)

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Oct 14 2009
**...

GREGMLR  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

Changing the setting for Plex to run on top of other applications does no good.

Done a Google search and found no solution.

Sad, as this could be an awesome solution for users looking for something more feature-rich than Front Row.  
(Version 0.8.2)

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Aug 28 2009

FRODO_LIFE  be aware does not work with Snow Leopard yet, actually crashes my MacMini when used under 10.6 together with apple remote  
(Version 0.8.2)

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Aug 10 2009

SOULSLAVE  still waiting for the subtitles search option like in boxee  
(Version 0.8.2)

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Aug 10 2009

MTCOBRA  Aware there was an update to Plex, I opened the older version and was promptly advised that there was a newer version, and did I want to download/install it? Options presented were NO and YES. Neither button was responsive. I had to QUIT the older version and download 0.8.2 from the MacUpdate site. Not a problem, but it was curious that the update option within the program wasn't functioning.  
(Version 0.8.2)

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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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