# 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:** [June 14, 2021, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/437 "2021-06-14T10:56:34Z")

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**Plex Media Server 1.23.3.4692 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.**

NEW:

- (Library) Add ability to sort things randomly.
- (Music) Add “artist last played” field.
- (Music) Add popularity as a new track sort field.
- (Music) Allow periodic music refresh to perform metadata upgrades.
- (Music) If a single directory appears to have multiple albums, match them all.
- (Music) Support for ‘releasetime’ tags in FLAC to give precise release dates.
- (Search) Ability to search for track artists.

FIXES:

- (Jobs) The server could get into a state where it no longer processed media index files until the next restart (#12698)
- (Library) Changes to local metadata wouldn’t be detected automatically for movies and episodes using the Plex agents (#12700)
- (Music) Improvements to Smart Shuffle to improve diversity.
- (Music) Use style radios over genre unless the library has genres coming from tags.
- (Photos) Photos with geolocation metadata failed to load.
- (Preferences) Fix temporary preferences.xml files on Windows (#12718)
- (Preferences) Use international time format for hours of day preferences (#12664)
- (Radio) Play queues could end up repeating in some rare cases.
- (Search) Improve searching for exact matches.

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