Plex Media Server 1.18.0.1846 is available to PlexPass users in the Beta update channel
Starting with this Plex Media Server release, we’re introducing new and improved features for music libraries: better matching, improved metadata, better artwork, and more! There are no longer “basic” vs “premium” music libraries; there is just a single type of music library. Plex Pass subscribers will continue having access to premium music-related features (automatic lyrics, Sweet Fades, loudness leveling, visualizers, etc.) just like before.
Visit our Upgrading Plex Music Libraries forum topic to get started!
NEW:
- (Library) Brand new music scanner and metadata system! More details at https://support.plex.tv/articles/upgrade-music-libraries-new-metadata-system/
- (BIF) Improved performance when generating media indexes (#10455)
- (DVR) Now supports team and sport tags in XMLTV guide data (#6272).
- (Library) Add an “Unmatched” filter.
- (Library) Allow artist/album title override during fix match.
- (Library) Improved music library preferences.
- (Library) Magic shuffle heuristics now employed in many more scenarios (e.g. smart playlists).
- (Library) Maximum number of On Deck items is now a preference.
- (Library) Mood now works for artists and albums, and add new style tag.
- (Library) Support for reading OGG tags.
- (Transcoder) Support for zero-copy hardware transcoding on Windows with Intel GPUs
- (Web) Updated to 4.8.3
FIXES:
- (Companion) Some companion apps would not be available to control from the Web player (#10522)
- (Diagnostics) Attempts to download logs from WD MyCloud would fail
- (DVR) Rarely would crash while extending a rolling subscription (#10535)
- (EPG) Change to daily full guide refresh instead of incremental refreshes multiple times a day. (#9403)
- (EPG) On Windows, XMLTV guide would fail to refresh (#10624).
- (Library) An issue on macOS where media with non-ASCII characters could be removed and added during scans.
- (Library) Disable popular tracks for Various Artists.
- (Library) Ignore a few more prefix characters when generating sort titles.
- (Library) In some cases, cast members could be shown in the wrong order.
- (Library) More fields are read from music file tags during refresh.
- (Library) Newer locations are now scanned before older ones.
- (Library) Refreshing Various Artists now refreshes all its albums.
- (Library) Slight speedup for database writes.
- (Music) Albums added from TIDAL would not match correctly with the new Plex Music libraries.
- (Networking) The server could become inaccessible when IPv6 is configured on Android (#10426)
- (Transcoder) Fixed H263 hardware decoding (#10580)
- (Transcoder) Hardware encoding wasn’t used in some situations when hardware decoding was unavailable for HEVC Main 10 (#7897)
- (Transcoder) Hardware transcoding could fail on input with ATSC closed captions on Windows systems with Intel GPUs (#8509) (#9840) (#10517)
- (Transcoder) Individual subtitle lines could fail to display in some clients when there are no subtitle lines for a long period afterwards
- (Transcoder) Individual subtitle lines could randomly fail to appear in certain clients
- (Transcoder) Playback could fail after a long period between subtitle lines in certain circumstances (#10582)
- (Transcoder) Reduced the amount of I/O load when streaming subtitles
- (Transcoder) Some packets could randomly be skipped in certain clients, resulting in a “skipping” effect (#10401)
- (Transcoder) Subtitles could vanish after a random period after seeking in certain clients (#10573)
- (Transcoder) Transcoding HEVC Main 10 content could fail on hardware without built-in support (#10590)
- A rare crash during scanning.
- Fix for empty/missing “Shows you might like” hub. (#10375)
- Long-standing issue which could lead to lack of recommended media in some cases.
- The blob database was not cleaned up during periodic maintenance.
- When analyzing tracks, menu item would never re-enable (#8477)
- When fixing match for an album, the year could disappear temporarily.
