Could we please please please get an expansion of the types of media files PLEX recognizes and displays? PLEX is a personal multimedia server. It only makes sense that it should also have the capacity to display written media, games media, compressed files, and basically any type of file a person w…

wait what? This is a media server to serve media content, ie movies, tv shows music. this is not a file server. File servers are a dime a dozen.

As @Mdhwoods1 stated, this is a MEDIA server; not a NAS replacement. There’s already a variety of software that provides that functionality, e.g. UnRAID, QNAP, Synology, Steam In-house Streaming, etc…

YEAH, The guy who started this thread is stupid. I mean God forbid we have a media server that displays media. Media such as text files, .pdf, comic book, edocs, magazines, ect or give a directory for video games be them in .exe or .apk format. I mean seriously why add something that would benefit…

I think it is a great idea. add any file you want, create a library or tags for it, if the native plex player can’t handle it, then let the applicable default app for that file type open it. obviously if there is no default app available on a particular platform for a particular file type, then th…

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