Plex Media Server

Announcements
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Plex Media Server 0.9.12.11 is now available for all users.

See previous post for details.

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Plex Media Server 0.9.12.12 is now available for Plex Pass users.

N.B. There are some important fixes for Mobile Sync in this release. We recommend that people having trouble delete all synced content from their devices and re-sync (in some cases reinstalling the app can help as well). This should not be needed going forwards. As another bonus for iOS users, we’ve upgraded the iLife channels to work with the new app.

New

  • Upgraded the iLife channels (iTunes, iPhoto, and Aperture) so the new iOS app can use them.
  • Add support for videos in iPhoto channel.

Fixes

  • A handful of fixes for Plex Companion (remote control) proxy for big-screen apps.
  • Sync: Fix a large memory leak when syncing (thanks, @sa2000!)
  • Sync: Fix an issue when content synced but then the libraries weren’t visible.
  • Sync: Fix an issue when certain items failed to sync and got stuck at 50% (i.e. didn’t download). Many thanks to @foux for the help in tracking this down!)
  • Fixed an issue where some movies weren’t getting extras.
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83

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.13 is now available for Plex Pass users.

Fixes

  • Fix a new issue where background artwork wasn’t returned correctly in some cases.
  • Sync: Fix an issue where sync item status wasn’t updated.
  • In some cases, extras weren’t downloaded for movies.
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84

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.13 is now available for all users.

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Plex Media Server 0.9.12.14 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES

  • Improved Sync stability.
  • Fix a crash during multiple simultaneous calls to /prefs endpoint.
  • Fix a transcoder crash on transcode session shutdown.
  • Turn on HTTP caching for photo transcoder endpoint.
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86

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.15 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES

  • TV libraries might display a blank screen on Xbox One
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87

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.16 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES

  • Premium music libraries could lose track titles on library refresh
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88

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.17 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES

  • A case where composites for photo albums didn’t display correctly on Linux.
  • Fix for resuming video on an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.12.18 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES

  • Improve remote control reliability in certain cases.
  • Improved audio codec handling for an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device.
90

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.18 is now available for everyone.

91

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.19 is now available for everyone.

FIXES

  • Improved subtitle handling on Apple TV
  • Improved Direct Play support on Apple TV
92

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.0 is now available for Plex Pass members.

We have a giant new release for you today, which represents several months of work, which was occurring in parallel to the stable 0.9.12.x series. We’re not going to enable auto-update for now with it, because we’d prefer that Plex Pass members opt into running it and giving us feedback.

One thing to note: if you downgrade to the 0.9.12 series, your sync lists (including for Cloud Sync) will be reprocessed (due to some enhancements and optimizations around sync processing), meaning things may get converted and/or transferred again. Just something to be aware of.

Last, but not least, this release includes the new transcoder which was made available for early testing a few months ago.

NEW

  • Translations for Estonian, Japanese, Romanian and Russian.
  • Rich support for “soft” subtitles, including WebVTT.
  • Upgraded transcoder.
  • Allow user to install a custom SSL certificate.
  • (Windows) Partial directory scanning support added.
  • Improvements when Direct Streaming high-quality files for Roku devices.
  • Support for OCSP stapling.
  • Add support for flagging “sidecar” subtitles as forced or default.
  • Add support for compressed responses to the HTTP client.
  • (API) Support for recursive play queue generation (useful for photos).
  • (API) Add repeat=1 to play queue endpoint.
  • (API) Add count parameter to search endpoint.
  • Get all genres for album and artist from tracks.
  • Increase maximum available video quality
  • Add support for generating chapter thumbnails.
  • Use language settings from plex.tv for server owner.
  • Support transcoding of theme music.

FIXES

  • A number of transcode and analysis crashes on Windows.
  • A transcoder crash involving large WTV files.
  • Fix a crash during multiple simultaneous calls to /prefs endpoint.
  • Some issues around MPEG-DASH playback.
  • Improved reporting of bandwidth in HLS manifests.
  • When enabling remote access failed, the web UI might not show the error.
  • Album artwork could go missing in searches.
  • Fix incorrect reporting of transcoding in the web activity page.
  • When otherwise equal, prefer sidecar subtitles.
  • When signing out having enabled “only secure connections”, you could become locked out.
  • Support “original” quality for audio.
  • Searches including an apostrophe character would fail.
  • Restricting music by sharing label didn’t allow access to tracks.
  • Refresh “Recently Added” discovery areas more often.
  • Make sure Plex Mix doesn’t duplicate the first (seed) track.
  • Search also looks in original title field.
  • When changing fields and artwork in quick succession, sometimes a change would be lost.
  • After resetting password, plugins could stop working.
  • Return similar artists in related discovery items.
  • (Windows) Don’t prompt during install of autoupdates.
  • Audio languages now include “Uncoded Languages” and “English (Unlocalized)”.
  • If SSL certificate doesn’t match cloud’s fingerprint, request a new one.
  • Home video discovery area didn’t work with restricted accounts.
  • (iOS) Fix an issue where (i) button on a track doesn’t work.
  • Improve auto-selection of multi-channel audio streams.
  • Videos inside discovery areas could incorrectly report being multi-part.
  • Set year when setting air/release date.
  • Prefer albumartistsort tag above artistsort for m4v music files (same as mp3).
  • Only use iTunes-style metadata for movies when not empty (fixes blank writers/directors/actors).
  • iTunes channel might not work with non-default iTunes library location.
  • For albums with tracks from different years, use highest for album year.
  • Fix for artist names in flac music files.
  • Fix for TheMovieDB season and episode images.
  • Make “respect tag” preference work for basic music library.
  • Clearing an originally available date could reset the year to 1900.
  • Detect when index files are manually deleted.
  • A case where composites for photo albums didn’t display correctly.
  • Fix for resuming video on an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device the Apple TV.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.1 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES:

  • Xbox 360 playback issues.
  • Apple TV playback issues with MP4 videos containing MP3 audio.
  • Prefer MP3 to AAC when transcoding for Apple TV.
  • Occasional failures moving items within a play queue.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.2 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW:

  • Allow client profiles to prefer MP3 over AAC audio when transcoding stereo sources.
  • Allow client profiles to specify a protocol when declaring Direct Play support.
  • Write server and operating system version info to every log file.
  • Advise clients when HTTPS is configured to be required.

FIXES:

  • (Sync) Sync v1 clients wouldn’t download new files until server restart.
  • (Sync) Fix composite images for photo albums.
  • Fix iTunes channel playback issues.
  • Fix filter requests with studio names containing commas.
  • Refresh cached transcoded thumbs when underlying photo changes.
  • Don’t show older unwatched episodes in OnDeck after watching a newer one.
  • Media analysis could generate duplicated streams in some rare cases.
  • Media analysis could crash on PPC NAS devices when media contained embedded artwork.
  • Sort Artist metadata could be overwritten when updating other metadata.
  • Fix a socket leak that could cause the server to become unresponsive.
  • Fix an issue with transcoded subtitles on Firefox.
  • Disallow transcoding online content for non-owners unless channels are shared.
  • Don’t start streaming transcode sessions when disk space is too low.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.3 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW:

FIXES:

  • Playback issues on servers with small temp partitions.
  • Playback issues with videos with non-standard orientations.
  • Fixed an issue with Cloud Sync reliability.
  • Embedded metadata in video files wasn’t being read correctly.
  • Media analysis could crash on PPC NAS devices when media contained embedded artwork.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.4 is now available for Plex Pass members.

Happy Turkey day to everyone in the US :slight_smile:

FIXES

  • Improve reliability of free disk space check.
  • Fix broken playback on PlayStation and possibly the iOS v3.5 app.
  • Resolved subtitle issues in files without audio.
  • (Sync) Subtitles were sometimes wouldn’t be synced when they should have been.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.5 is now available for Plex Pass members.

FIXES:

  • (Sync) Sync and Cloud Sync stability improvements.
  • (Sync) Update cloud automatically when Cloud Sync items are deleted.
  • (Sync) Subtitles would not be burned in unless manually selected.
  • Crashes using the legacy transcoder.
  • Crashes signing out of server.
  • Playback could end early when subtitles were enabled.
  • WebVTT subtitles could cause playback to fail.
  • (OS X) Incomplete or invalid media analysis results for some streams.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.14.6 is now available for everyone.

FIXES:

  • (Sync) Stability improvements.
  • (Windows) Improve handling of library sections pointed at the root of a volume.
  • Occasional failures detecting Internet connectivity.
  • Signing out didn’t always work.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.15.0 is now available for Plex Pass members. Woot!

NEW

  • Lyrics!
  • Allow overriding log file location using an environment variable, on non-Windows platforms.

FIXES

  • Apple TV could display subtitle streams as English instead of the actual language.
  • (Media Optimizer) Display correct set of optimized videos for unwatched-only optimizations.
  • (Media Optimizer) Don’t fail if the file system doesn’t support creating a dot-prefixed directory.
  • Update plex.tv information when secure connections preference changes.
  • Browse errors in some clients after restricting music library sharing by album label.
  • In rare cases, newly added episodes might not receive correct metadata.
  • (Windows) Crash on startup if iTunes registry key is corrupted.
  • (Windows) Show DTS media flags correctly.
  • Improved last.fm scrobble support.
  • Remove an unused file that could trigger false positives from anti-virus scanners.
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Plex Media Server 0.9.15.1 is now available for Plex Pass members.

NEW

  • (Sync) Transcodes for iOS now include all audio streams from the source file.
  • (iOS/Apple TV) Support Direct Play for HLS streams from channels.
  • Support Synology DiskStation DS216play and DS716+ devices.

FIXES

  • (Windows) Resolved installer error “Another version of this product is already installed”.
  • (Windows) Allow host PC to go to sleep.
  • (Windows) Transcoder errors with non-ASCII user names.
  • (Media Optimizer) Update default target max bitrates to 1080p/8Mbps (TV) and 720p/4Mbps (Mobile).
  • (Sync) Original item order wasn’t preserved when processing items.
  • (Sync) Unwatched-only policies weren’t working as expected for some sync items.
  • (Sync) Unwatched-only and limit policies weren’t being applied to synced playlists.
  • (Sync) Cloud Sync stability improvements.
  • Improved accuracy and reliability of PubSub server selection.
  • In some cases, movie year was incorrectly being set to the file’s creation time.
  • Playlist duration and item count could be incorrect in some cases.
  • Fixed a case where optimizing the database could hang the server.
  • Fixed crash on WD ARMv7 devices.
  • Fixed favicon requests.