Plex Media Server

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Plex Media Server 0.9.12.5 is now available for Plex Pass users

Lots of good stuff in this release. So much so, we wrote a blog post about it.

NEW

  • Support for moods in album view.
  • Last.FM scrobbling!
  • Allow filtering shows by Network.
  • Allow filtering episodes for duplicates.
  • Allow publishing arbitrary connections for servers.
  • Support for shared users’ language and subtitle preferences from plex.tv
  • All plugins/agents now bundled with and locked to server releases. Should be the end of having to delete System/Framework.

FIXES

  • (Web) Remove AAC bitrate limitations.
  • (Sync) Assorted fixes and improvements.
  • (Sync) Fix an issue when syncing back play status.
  • (Transcoder) Fix a few deadlocks.
  • (Transcoder) Some videos play in slow motion.
  • (Transcoder) Improve video quality when converting from HEVC, VP9, and 10-bit H.264.
  • (Transcoder) Fixed an issue involving VOBSUB subtitles on interlaced video.
  • Improvements to NAT traversal, especially using UPnP.
  • Potential fix for an rare issue resolving EventSource server.
  • If Internet access comes back after outage, make sure NAT port is still mapped (thanks, sa2000!)
  • For unmatched media, the Local Media Agent data wasn’t properly loaded.
  • When signing out and in again, make sure we properly publish TLS availability (thanks, sa2000!)
  • (Local Media) Read sort titles from MP4 files.
  • (Local Media) Fix a bug where album art wasn’t getting cleared out.
  • (Plex Music) Improved artwork downloading.
  • (Plex Music) Fix “None” genre preference for artists.
  • (Plex Music) Don’t add data/posters for Soundtrack and other such generic artists.
  • Better analysis of MP3 files for duration.
  • Improve quality of downscaled images.
  • Fix an issue where cached tags could get out of sync with full tag set.
  • Fix a regression where every play was showing as Direct Play in the web app.
  • Improve ID3v2-skipping code.
  • Don’t move deleted bundles to Trash, delete them right away.
  • During analysis, make sure we check the existance (or lack thereof) of media index files.
  • Season posters weren’t always showing up in season editor.
  • On Deck wasn’t working for users with restrictions.
  • (FreeBSD) Fix start.sh to work.
  • Optimize the library after deleting a library.
  • Make sure selected artwork is downloaded locally, fixes cases where selected posters can be reset.
  • (Linux) Further improvements to filesystem-watching code.
  • Make sure we update plex.tv when disabling remote access.
  • (Windows) Adding/removing a library doesn’t cause it to scan all other other ones.
  • Revamped iOS device profiles to provide better quality streams to newest (and unreleased) devices.
  • Publish connections to plex.tv when connected directly to the Internet.