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Plex Media Server
1.18.4.2171

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Plex Media Server

1.18.4.2171
07 January 2020

Seamlessly connect your Plex clients with your local media.

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Overview

Plex Media Server seamlessly connects your Plex clients with all of your local and online media. The combination of centralized library management, streaming of online content, and powerful transcoding functionality provides an unrivaled level of flexibility and ease of use.

Plex Media Server runs on your Mac, PC, or compatible NAS device and serves your media to all of your Plex clients, including Plex-enabled mobile devices and 2011 LG Smart TVs.

Features:
  • Effortlessly organize your media into a versatile library
  • Native Cocoa and web-based versions provide local and network access to management features
  • Automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet
  • Complete customization of your library with a few clicks
  • Automatic updates when new local content is added

What's new in Plex Media Server

Version 1.18.4.2171:
New:
  • (DVR) "Upcoming Sports" renamed to "Sports On Later"; filter refined to only have sport events
  • (DVR) Added new "Sports On Now" hub
  • (DVR) Enhanced "TV Shows" Hub, now named "Shows On Now"
  • (Library) Add an "in progress" filter for movies and episodes
  • (Library) Added a release date filter for albums
  • (Library) Allow using Musicbrainz IDs when manually matching artists and albums
  • (Library) Keep track of when items are rated, add filter
  • (Preferences) Added more bitrate options to limiting remote per-stream bandwidth
  • (Preferences) Enable "Use hardware-accelerated video encoding" by default
Fixes:
  • (DVR) Programs listed under "Recommended" Hub would not sort by airing start datetime
  • (EPG) Allow filtering of EPG data by content rating
  • (Library) Fix manual searches for old music album agents
  • (Library) Huge speedup to history view in dashboard
  • (Library) Read MusicBrainz tags from files to help match the correct release
  • (Library) Stop showing recommendations from shared libraries which don’t exist anymore
  • (Library) Use track filenames as last-ditch track titles
  • (Music) Read track artist tags in more cases
  • (PMS) Server would sometimes return HTTP 404 when scanner was traversing folders
  • (Transcoder) The server could crash when attempting hardware transcodes on certain Windows systems

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57 Plex Media Server Reviews

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Lhutz
Lhutz
25 August 2019

Most helpful

After a wave of very negative responses by their users, they went back on their decision to no longer support TV mode setups for Macs and PCs. I'm very glad they listened.
Like (2)
Version 1.16.5.1488
Evh
Evh
08 January 2020
Great with an internet connection - but frustrating no end if your internet is out for a stretch of days - Can't play any of my library without internet
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Version 1.18.4.2171
Lhutz
Lhutz
25 August 2019
After a wave of very negative responses by their users, they went back on their decision to no longer support TV mode setups for Macs and PCs. I'm very glad they listened.
Like (2)
Version 1.16.5.1488
Lhutz
Lhutz
16 August 2019
They just announced they are killing off support for having your Mac directly connected to your TV, which is the most powerful and feature rich setup you can have. From January 2020 on, it will be streaming-only. :/
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Version 1.16.4.1469
RodgerW6021
RodgerW6021
09 May 2019
Version 1.15.4.994 New (DVR) Ability to give Home Users DVR access. (#8794) (Playback) Assume unknown audio to be foreign if the preferred audio language is not english (#6126) (Streaming Brain) Preference to allow automatically terminating playbacks which have been paused for an hour (#9700) (Subtitles) Auto select forced subtitles when not listening to foreign audio (#6126) (Web) Updated to 3.95.2 When transcoding for supported clients, automatically select media based on supported resolution and dynamic range (#9490) Fixes (Analysis) Chapters were not being imported for new media (#9843) (Dashboard) Respect user preferences for local / remote bandwidth (#9562) (Dashboard) Respect user preferences when showing streams as local / remote (#9562) (Metadata) Asking to refresh metadata still used cache for movies and TV shows (#1566) (Metadata) Related collections were not paginated (#9844)
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Version 1.15.4.994
RodgerW6021
RodgerW6021
24 April 2019
Version 1.15.4.993 New (DVR) Ability to give Home Users DVR access. (#8794) (Playback) Assume unknown audio to be foreign if the preferred audio language is not english (#6126) (Streaming Brain) Preference to allow automatically terminating playbacks which have been paused for an hour (#9700) (Subtitles) Auto select forced subtitles when not listening to foreign audio (#6126) (Web) Updated to 3.95.2 When transcoding for supported clients, automatically select media based on supported resolution and dynamic range (#9490) Fixes (Analysis) Chapters were not being imported for new media (#9843) (Dashboard) Respect user preferences for local / remote bandwidth (#9562) (Dashboard) Respect user preferences when showing streams as local / remote (#9562) (Metadata) Asking to refresh metadata still used cache for movies and TV shows (#1566) (Metadata) Related collections were not paginated (#9844)
Like (1)
Version 1.15.4.993
SimonAndrews5784
SimonAndrews5784
13 January 2019
not bad, but its too buggy I think.
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Version 1.14.1.5488
adamtheman17
adamtheman17
04 October 2018
I been using plex for 2 years and yesterday my plex account got removed, so i contact support and they told me they can not tell me that type of information when i asked why i got removed, so i created a new account and not even 1 day i got removed again, what is funny the new account had only myself on it sharing the plex server and on facebook i still get no help, in the terms it says you can share it with the whole family but also plex can remove your account at any time for any reason. I was just sharing my desktop that had plex with family members and plex still today will not give me a answer........ I switch to emby and it does work better with playback then plex i would give emby a try forget about plex
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Version 1.13.8.5395
Macadanqc
Macadanqc
02 September 2018
Excellente application pour visionner vos films et téléséries sur vos différents appareils connectés grâce au lecteur Plex Media Player qui y est associé. Configuration très aisée en explorant votre réseau et en sélectionnant les différents fichiers de vos vidéos.
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Version 1.13.5.5332
ashishcompuiting
ashishcompuiting
20 July 2018
Streaming at its best
Like (1)
Version 1.13.4.5251
ashishcompuiting
ashishcompuiting
20 July 2018
plex is best
Like (1)
Version 1.13.4.5251

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