Today I was setting up Plex with a friend of mine. It was completely new to him. So he ran into some little problems and had a lot of questions to ask. During our talk I had the idea of a quite little but maybe handy feature which could make it a bit easier to manage the media library. When you ad…

This has been requested several times before. Plex has a policy to not modify the original media files under any circumstance, so getting a built-in Plex feature is highly unlikely. A plug in would be possible, but it will have to be made by a 3rd party.

Well since I posted that feature request of course I have to defend it and tend to see things a bit differently. So please don’t be mad at me if I don’t agree with you completely. I understand that they have this policy and can imagine why they have it as well. But in this case the media itself wo…

Ugh. The “P” word again. The ultimate stopping point for progress and thinking. Do keep in mind that someone human created that “policy” at some point with the information that person or multiple people had at that time and that available information or the interpretation and technical possibilitie…

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