Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 7.24.0.13247-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Playback: improve performance starting playback.
  • [TV] Player: Dolby Vision support.
  • [TV] Photo album names were not displayed.
  • [TV] Live TV: selecting a currently airing program in the TV guide will tune straight away.
  • [TV] Live TV: record directly from the TV guide using your remote control record button.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: TV guide programs could be incorrectly grouped into a single channel.
  • [TV] Show that more items are available in hubs.
  • [TV] Lyrics could not be displayed for Tidal content added to PMS libraries.

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242

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13291-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Shuffling a playlist doesn’t work.
  • Transcoded music from a Windows Plex Media Server would not start playing.
  • [TV] Player: ensure postplay is shown in-between play queue items.
  • [TV] Player: refresh rate switching could also change the resolution.
  • [TV] Player: support for seeking via arrow keys whilst the UI is hidden.

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243

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13403-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • TIDAL augmented content could not play from artist preplay screen.
  • Shuffling a playlist could display wrong item initially.
  • [TV] Player: temporarily disable Picture-in-Picture when refresh rate or resolution switching is enabled.
  • [TV] Player: prevent menu focus from jumping to the top.
  • [TV] Player: remove home screen Now Playing notification when playback is stopped.
  • [TV] Player: stop playback when display is turned off.
  • [TV] Player: prevent refresh rate / resolution switching when playing Dolby Vision content.
  • [TV] Player: stop button on a remote control now stops.
  • [TV] UNO: Home screen could get stuck in “No internet” error state.

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244

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13466-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent incorrectly identifying the item has changed, and killing the transcode session.
  • [TV] Player: provide easy way to exit picture in picture mode.

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245

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13532-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: ensure AC3 over Live TV or transcoding has a valid channel count.
  • [TV] Player: quick seek interface when seeking via remote buttons.

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246

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13560-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

FIXES:

  • [TV] Photos: prevent crash when viewing photos when moving to a video item.

BETA:

  • [TV] Player: less grey, more black.

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247

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13641-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • First track in audio playback could incorrectly transcode.
  • Live TV: fix issue where live TV could get stuck attempting to tune.
  • [TV] Player: prevent crash on Amazon devices when using refresh or resolution switching.
  • [TV] Player: ensure AAC LATM over Live TV doesn’t drop video frames.
  • [TV] Player: ensure quick seek UI resets countdown when seek direction is changed.
  • [TV] Audio player could not display correct list of tracks.

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248

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13686-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • No user-facing changes on TV.

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249

Plex for Android 7.24.0.13705-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • No user-facing changes on TV.

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250

Plex for Android 7.25.0.13736-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: TV guide will now automatically refresh as time progresses.
  • [TV] Live TV: minor tweaks to TV guide program description UI.
  • [TV] New background color.
  • Automatic Home mode that seamlessly configures your home screen based on your pinned sources. Upcoming versions of Plex Media Server will allow unpinned sources to be filtered from your home screen. Automatic Home can be toggled via HOME options.

FIXES:

  • UNO: would not always re-discover offline servers in More screen.
  • Starting playback from a playlist item could generate wrong play queue.
  • Android Auto: playback operations would not run.

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251

Plex for Android 7.25.0.13834-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • TV: starting video playback while music is playing could cause app crash.
  • UNO: would not always re-discover offline servers in More screen.
  • Starting playback from a playlist item could generate wrong play queue.
  • Android Auto: playback operations would not run.

BETA:

  • App could crash at start-up when preferred server is offline.
  • [TV] Playback: skip user picker when being controlled remotely.

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252

Plex for Android 7.25.0.13841-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Podcasts: fix crash when navigating to “All Episodes”.

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253

Plex for Android 7.25.0.13933-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Live TV: tweaks to how we display time remaining of shows in the TV guide.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: fix issue where live TV may get stuck attempting to tune.

BETA:

  • App could crash when closing audio player with visualizer active.
  • App could crash when exiting the Users & Sharing screen.
  • [TV] Make sure server name is displayed in manage home hubs screen.

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254

Plex for Android 7.25.0.14014-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • App could crash when accessing to TV Show preplay.

BETA:

  • Don’t display tabs if we only have one.
  • Possible crash when starting playback.

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255

Plex for Android 7.25.0.14096-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Make sure changes in custom home are reflected.
  • Player: ensure next item appears on the postplay.
  • Android Auto: loading podcasts content could crash app.
  • Display the source title for media providers during first run.
  • Old servers didn’t load home hubs.
  • [TV] Player: subtitles would not be visible on Sony TV’s.

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1 Like
256

Plex for Android 7.25.0.14108-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Just a few minor bug fixes.

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257

Plex for Android 7.25.0.14152-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Starting playback from a playlist item could generate wrong play queue.
  • Android Auto: playback operations would not run.
  • [TV] Update library was missing from library action menu.

BETA:

  • [TV] Hubs could appear as “offline” when Custom Home was enabled.
  • [TV] Make sure server name is displayed in manage home hubs screen.
  • [TV] Playback: skip user picker when being controlled remotely.

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1 Like
258

Plex for Android 7.25.0.14177-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Update library was missing from library action menu.

BETA:

  • Player: ensure audio software decoder doesn’t crash.
  • Android Auto: root page content might not load.

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1 Like
259

Plex for Android 7.25.2.14252-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Fix potential crash loading images on some devices.

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1 Like
260

Plex for Android 7.26.0.14255-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Fix ‘reconnect’ action in offline home screen hubs.
  • Delete option was incorrectly showing on some items.
  • [TV] Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) passthrough could result in video frame drop.
  • [TV] Reduce tearing on home screen when scrolling vertically.
  • [TV] Libraries that were deleted from the server were not being removed from the app.

BETA:

  • [TV] Player: keyboard did not show for subtitle search.

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2 Likes