Hi! I recently have starting having an issue on PLEX where no media is played, regardless of type, age, or platform. I simply get a “Playback error: An error occurred loading items to play.” error on Windows / “Error Occurred: Failed to fetch play queue response” on iOS I’m on Unraid using plexinc…

I have tried reverting to older PMS on my windows 11 machine, It didn’t address the issue. What version did you try to get it to work again? Did you uninstall and install an older version, restoring for backup? Or did you just reinstall an older version on-top of the existing application? I am cu…

I went back to version 1.41.6.9685 which was released in April. Somewhen in May Plex started to request more memory, which got worse. In July it stopped working with that error message posted above. I am running plex as LXC container on a Proxmox host - which is basically a ‘lite’-version of a virt…

Is there any Permanent FIX to this issue? Something so major affecting a lot of people, and yet silence from Plex.

I tried this and the same error occurs immediately. No luck. IS THERE ANY FIX IN SIGHT FOR THIS. WHY IS THERE NO RESPONSE FROM PLEX???

@Damionix Where’s your previous post? You’ve posted in Linux - Docker I just happened to look in here and found your post. ( I have now enabled notification for server-docker )

I have found browser based applications throw this error. The old version of the Android app (before the preview build) will play fine. Nvidia shield will play fine (it’s running the non preview build).

I see. Unfortunately, with so many of the users using diverse apps from different platforms to access the server, not sure how to get these people to downgrade their apps. If they can at all.

My 2 cents on the matter: Considering (1) the handling of this issue has been absolutely atrocious from the PLEX side of things - with no formal acknowledgement of a seemingly decently widespread issue - from people who paid for a product. (2) this has persisted since May with zero fixes identified,…

I was able to fix my database by restoring to an April 2025 version. I dumped both com.plexapp.plugins.library.db to my desktop and i ran a comparison between the two, here is what it found: Comparing files C:\old.sql and C:\NEW.SQL ***** C:\old.sql 654: INSERT INTO schema_migrations VALUES('20…

Playback error: An error occurred loading items to play

Plex Media Server

Damionix September 18, 2025, 9:05am 65

Apologies if this is in Linux - Docker. But the issue is exactly the same. I have Windows and all my devices are exactly doing the same thing. None are able to play anything.

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Playback error: An error occurred loading items to play

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