Plex Windows Desktop Player has no update check?

Server Version#:1.26.2.5797
Player Version#: 1.44.0.2981-e2d72ac2

Does the Windows Plex Dekstop Player app have no update / version checker? It seems the only way to check if the app is current or update it is to go the Plex downloads page?

This seems like a big oversight, if so?

It checks for updates automatically when it starts. It will then ask if you want to update on the next run. You are already on the latest.

@anon18523487 - but it never checks though!

When I launched the app last night I was on1.43.2.2949 and it never checked or asked for an update. The only way I found the new version was to go to the Plex downloads page.

I just now uninstalled 1.44.0.2981, reinstalled 1.43.2.2949, rebooted and launched it again and it is not checking for updates and is not giving any notification there is a newer client available.

In the last year or so that I have been using the desktop app, it has never once offered to update or notified that a new version is available.

Can you get me the log from 1.43.2?

well it seems to be working from 1.44 as it just auto-updated to 1.45…that the first time I have ever seen that happen since 1.39 on my system…go figure…I guess the magic of making a post solved the issue :wink:

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