Plex for Alexa

FIXED

  • fixed a case where a small number of users were unable to play music
1 Like

FIXED

  • Allow relay connections to be used if no other remote connections are available
1 Like

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
1 Like

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
6 Likes

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 level. You can listen to your favorite album in your office while a family member or roommate listens to a Library Radio in the kitchen.
  • Performance improvements
5 Likes

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
1 Like

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
2 Likes

FIXES

  • In certain cases playback would fail between songs due to untested server connections
  • Fixed a case where a bad cache would cause a sporadic generic error response
1 Like

This release is the first set of changes to broaden and improve music playback support on 3rd party Alexa devices. More information available in this post: Improved 3rd Party Device Playback Support

NEW

  • Added playback support for Alexa Connected Speaker devices (such as Sonos One and Bose Home 500)
  • Improved transcoding support for 3p devices

FIXES

  • Certain 3p devices were truncating http request parameters causing playback to never work
  • In some cases /timeline wasn’t sending to PMS for 3p devices
1 Like

FIXES

  • When flinging content to remote players Alexa would respond with an error response even when flinging was successful
1 Like

NEW:

  • Streaming music from a recent Plex Media Server will now be much more robust. We’ve re-written the core connection code to handle more challenging network scenarios that could previously have resulted in no media playback whatsoever.
1 Like

FIXES

  • Fixed a case where resuming media could result in an error response
  • Devices without a video player were not responding with the appropriate error message when video playback was attempted

FIXES:

  • Fixed a case where a corrupted default player preference could cause an error response
  • Improved caching heuristics for PMS connections to reduce Alexa response latency
  • Switched the audio playback engine to use adhoc PMS transcodes to reduce time-to-playback latency

FIXES:

  • Fixed a case where missing session data could cause the skill to return an error response
  • Improved caching of the current queue for music playback to reduce latency when moving through the queue
  • Fixed a case where the pre-buffered next track would be thrown away if a user manually requested the next track causing unnecessary latency
  • In some scenarios Alexa would return a response that contained missing metadata

NEW:

  • FLAC support! Direct Play for First Party Echo devices and Direct Stream support on Sonos and Bose devices

FIXES:

  • On some devices moving through the queue with next or previous could cause playback to fail
9 Likes

FIXES:

  • Stripped loudness tags from streams. Echo devices weren’t using them and they were causing the Alexa player on Sonos devices to occasionally fail in strange ways.
5 Likes

FIXES:

  • On some newer versions of PMS fetching the play queue would fail and Alexa would only play a single track
4 Likes