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FIXED: Rewrote timeline event handler to avoid various state issues Timelines could fail to send causing playback to abruptly end after the current track In rare cases offsets were reported greater than the duration causing timeline events to get rejected Transcode sessions for buffering content c…

FIXED in some cases remote control commands failed to send changing default video players could fail

NEW music playback will use local connections first when possible FIXED in some cases a play queue could prematurely run out of items improved media connection logic for networks with NAT Loopback or DNS rebinding protections media connection information is cached less aggressively when in a no…

FIXED fixed a case where a small number of users were unable to play music

FIXED Allow relay connections to be used if no other remote connections are available

FIXED: Include new remote control parameters. Improves compatibility with new Roku player and Plex Web Fix a case where resuming media could say your server was offline

NEW Support for German Improved support for filtering media by artists and albums (e.g. Alexa, Ask Plex to play the album Night at the Opera by Queen) Improved search algorithm to more accurately match titles to your media FIXED Increase timeout when connection testing servers

NEW: Server and video player preferences are now remembered on a per-device basis rather than at the account level. Have an echo in more than one room? Now you can set each to a different Plex player when flinging video content. Music queues now live at the device level rather than the account lev…

FIXED: Fixed a case where the skill could respond with an error if a default server didn’t exist for a given device Fixed a case where an offline server would get set as the default

NEW Add support for Add to Library Tidal content (requires Plex Media Server 1.15.8 or later) FIXES Default server could be incorrectly set resulting in error responses while using the skill Remote control on Android TV could fail silently

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Include new remote control parameters. Improves compatibility with new Roku player and Plex Web
Fix a case where resuming media could say your server was offline

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