You can set a 4-digit PIN on your account.
That’s one of the reasons why you should only invite members of your own household into your Plex Home.
With a Plex pass, you can also invite regular Plex accounts into your Plex home. They will be able to “Switch User” and use the mobile Plex apps (and Plexamp) for free. In this regard, they’ll be like managed users.
OK thanks! So, does that then give each managed user the capability of having a 4 digit pin? My initial question was not intending to share my account with people not of my household. It was more of protecting my files as not to get erased easily. I don’t think that was needed assuming otherwise without being sure what I intend it for.
Can’t you be informative without being mean with assumptions?
I wasn’t assuming anything. I was merely informing.
Yes, each user can have it’s own PIN.
Please peruse https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/features/plex-home/
Thanks. Just so I understand this user issue, no matter managed or invited, they all can be managed, including restrictions. Only difference is the matter of login if added through managed, then the admin needs to login first. But invited, the invitee logs in on their own and gets a linked account sort of, not needing the home server admin to login first. Is that the sum of it? Thank you
A minor thing I have come across too is (music) what if a album is a duet, like Stewart and Gaga? Do I place it under Stewart or Gaga? Or Various Artists? Thanks
Precisely.
There is unfortunately no ideal solution to this. You’ll have to decide under which ‘Album Artist’ to place it.
I’d go with one of the participating artists, instead of Various.
(Except if the track belongs to an album, which has also other tracks by different artists. Then it’d belong under Various.)
When you’re undecided, try and find the release with the track on musicbrainz.org. Then use whatever they have picked as the Album Artist.
Thank you very much @Ottokerne! Just a small follow up question on the user matter please. So, if a invited user did a one time activation, are they able to create a managed user list of their own without a PMS? Also, invited users, do they have to be a Plex user already or can I invite like my brother who’s one state over? Thanks
“One time activation” is bound to the app store account, not the Plex account.
Which means, whoever is using the Plex app on this phone, can use it fully.
N.B.: An app store activation is not buying a Plex Pass! It only removes the 1-minute playback restriction on the app.
That being said: each plex user can create ‘managed users’ for his kids and family members, thus creating his own Plex Home.
But creating managed users makes only sense if you run your own Plex server.
If you only use a server which has been shared with your account, you won’t be able to “re-share” it with your Plex Home members.
Additionally, inviting other regular plex.tv accounts into a Plex Home is only possible with a Plex Pass.
Thanks again @Ottokerner! Can you answer my other question in regards to the invited user? If a person you’re inviting doesn’t have a plex account yet, will they be notified via email of the invite? I’m asking to know if I need to tell them or they would just be informed via the Plex email? Thanks
They get an e-mail.
Personally I’d still give them a short heads up – e.g. to set your “house rules” or if you want them to keep the default video quality for remote playback vs. going for maximum quality at all times to avoid transcoding (if bandwidth is not an issue).
As mentioned, they will get an email. If you do give them a heads-up, make sure they know to create the Plex account using the exact same email address that the invite is sent to, otherwise it won’t work.
Thanks @anon18523487
hi
I’m back with a new related question. Hope someone can help. Example artist, Ayumi Hamasaki, I can find her using a Google search, using the link @Ottokerner provided for me, but when I plug it into Plex, it can’t find a match. I know its a database avaavle thing, but is there any other way? Or do I have to manually fill in the info? Thanks!
Try to use the Japanese letters as your search term.
Hi @OttoKerner! I’ve tried that as well, no luck. Still didn’t get matched. Not for the album.s as well except the ones I has a album cover as Metadata previously. Thanks
Is your music stored in a hierarchical folder structure like below?
It absolutely has to be.
Music /
Ayumi Hamasaki /
Rainbow /
01 - everlasting dream.mp3
02 - WE WISH.mp3
...
Hi @OttoKerner!Yes, my files are placed in that Hierachy. I’ve tried last name first, first name last too. If there wasn’t a cover pic, that’s OK too. But I’m just wondering why its not showing up as even a suggested match when I use the “Match” choice on the option menu. Thanks
I got no hits with this artist name as well.
But when I used the japanese version (which I copied from musicbrainz.org) I got an instant hit with 100% certainty
Hey @OttoKerner, thanks. I just checked and its good now. I don’t know what happened, just restarted the PMS and it was there.
I hit another issue. Subtitles. I took a look Return of the Jedi.i placed in Chinese simplified, pressed play and it showed English subtitles. I changed to Chinese traditional, press play, and stillEnglish ones showed up. I checked the agents, made sure OpenSubtitles are checked, refreshed the Metadata, scanned files again and still English subtitles. What am I missing? Thanks
Sorry, please describe more precisely what you did.
Did you add subtitles as separate files?
Or did you use the integrated subtitle search in Plex?
Hi @OttoKerner! I actually did both. I went back to check the separate file and it seemed wrong, so I’m looking into it. But on the integrated one, I was basically getting the English subtitle sti), even when I choose to change language. So I’m confused.
And as you know, there is a simplified Chinese and Traditional. In naming the file, what I did was the simplified was a .zh and traditional was .chi, is that correct? Thanks
