# Plex Media Server

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release-announcements\
**Created:** [March 10, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447 "2013-03-10T03:33:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/108 "2016-03-01T04:00:51Z")

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**Plex Media Server 0.9.16.0 is now available for Plex Pass members.**

**NEW**

- (Metadata) Support local artist posters and fanart.
- (Metadata) Support local album fanart.
- (Metadata) Support ‘short’, ‘featurette’ and ‘other’ sidecar movie extras.
- Log files are now versioned as .X.log instead of .log.X.
- (OS X) Log files are now stored in a dedicated “~/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server” directory
- (PMP) Support remuxing FLAC audio for video transcodes.
- (Prefs) Move advanced Update Channel pref to non-advanced section.
- Improved startup times on multi-core systems.

**FIXES**

- (Lyrics) Handle lyrics files with CR linebreaks.
- (Media Optimizer) Improved default sorting of items for Media Optimizer, Playlists, and Sync.
- (Metadata) Show correct release date for MP3 music files.
- (Metadata) Read metadata from MP4 movie files without audio track.
- (Metadata) Don’t strip dots from song titles.
- (Metadata) Artists with trailing dots weren’t showing album metadata in music libraries using the Last.fm agent.
- Generate thumbnails with correct aspect ratios for anamorphic content.
- Reliably find local assets for multi-disc music albums.
- Improve reliability of .plexignore handling.
- Improve reliability of library cleanup during scanning.
- Incorrect playlist durations when items have multiple versions.
- Prevent scheduled tasks from starting and ending at the same time.
- Don’t label media items as “Original” when there’s only one.
- Enable uninstalling manually installed plugins.
- (Transcoder) Improve performance transcoding video to MP4 containers.
- (Transcoder) Prefer transcodes of stereo sources to AAC over other multi-channel codecs.
- (Transcoder) Improve compatibility of HLS transcodes with some older Samsung TVs.
- (Transcoder) Failures transcoding audio with low sampling rates for the Roku.
- (Transcoder) Failures copying invalid chapters when transcoding to streaming MKV.
- (Transcoder) Failures burning DVB subtitles.
- (Transcoder) Incorrect name and language attributes when transcoding subtitles to WebVTT.
- (Transcoder) Online content requiring a specific user agent wasn’t transcoding correctly.
- (Prefs) Removed obsolete “Offer higher bitrates over 3G connections” preference.
- (Prefs) Removed obsolete “Enable Dolby Digital on Apple TV” preference.
- (Playlists) Sorting playlists by duration wasn’t working.
- (Windows) Failures installing when Windows Firewall service is disabled.
- (Windows) Automatically launch the server after auto update.
- (Windows) Incorrect Windows version listed in installer logs.
- (iOS) Failures playing MP4 video with MP3 audio.
- (DLNA) Connect to remote media servers securely.
- (DLNA) Crashes when video has no audio stream.
- (Roku) TV play queues weren’t advancing.
- (Bundles) A number of small service fixes.

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