# Playback error-can't get arround it **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Media Server\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [July 9, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-error-cant-get-arround-it/727644 "2021-07-09T13:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pdeanb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pdeanb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Pdeanb)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-error-cant-get-arround-it/727644/1 "2021-07-09T13:55:03Z")
Server Version#: Player Version#: I have the latest server and client, I believe. My media is on a 3TB external drive. I have the server on a Dell laptop, running Win 10 (i just replaced the HDD with an SDD, 1 TB). Everything else seems to work OK, but not Plex. The client displays the many icons for the movies I have, but when I click on one of them, the screen shows Playback Error. This occurs on all four of my libraries. How can I fix this? ---
**Author:** ![Paulios](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/paulios/32/84113_2.png) [@Paulios](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Paulios)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-error-cant-get-arround-it/727644/2 "2021-07-14T17:15:11Z")
Hm how long has this been happening because I have been using Plex for years now and yet a few days ago this started happening and now, today, no matter which file I select, and no matter if I try to play it on the browser interface or through my Samsung Smart TV, which is how we usually watch stuff from Plex, it will not play. I just get the flashing icon on the top left of the TV as if Plex is waiting to load the description info of the file, the meta data I mean…but it never magaes to and eventually it says Error. In the browser I get a similar thing. It spins and spins and seems to be trying to load the mopvie or tv show and then eventually it says " Playback Error Content is unavailable"" I am stumped. And gutted that now I have to use thatr slow piece of erm, excrement, windows network to stream some media to the TV…if it works!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-error-cant-get-arround-it/727644/3 "2021-10-12T17:15:35Z")
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