# Plex Media Server **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 289
**Author:** ![ahiyahiya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@ahiyahiya](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ahiyahiya)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/289 "2019-10-02T14:12:11Z")
**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](https://forums.plex.tv/t/upgrading-plex-music-libraries/469659) 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/](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. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447)._