Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 7.8.0.8088-beta

Available on Google Play.

This version only includes internal changes that don’t affect current features.

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162

Plex for Android 7.8.0.8169-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Nothing new for TV

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163

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8224-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Multiple improvements in artist preplay screen.

FIXES:

  • ExoPlayer v2: updated timeout detection to use correct values.
  • Prevent multiple audio tracks playing on top of each other.
  • Sync: improve detection of external storage locations.
  • Make sure theme music changes to selected related show
  • On-demand subtitles were available for content other than movies and tv shows.
  • Restore headset actions during audio playback.
  • [TV] Improve hub scrolling performance.
  • [TV] : display proper information for EPs in artist preplay screen.

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164

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8267-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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165

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8273-beta

Available on Google Play.

Mobile changes only.

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166

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8283-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • ExoPlayer v2: prevent incorrect codec version from being used.

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167

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8393-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Podcasts and News “Categories” screen could not display correct icons.

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168

Plex for Android 7.9.0.8414-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when loading home screen.

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169

Plex for Android 7.10.0.8573-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Improve search speed.
  • External subtitle offset adjustment support.
  • [TV] Display “Now Playing” view in the top bar.
  • [TV] External subtitle files can be deleted from a Plex Media Server.
  • [TV] Optical passthrough support.

FIXES:

  • Add rest of items to the play queue when playing a music video from preplay screen.
  • Make sure audio player uses local items when ‘Prefer synced content’ enabled.
  • TIDAL: “Add/Remove to my TIDAL” action not present in preplay screen when opened from library artist screen.
  • App could crash when starting audio playback.
  • TIDAL: close playback settings menu when “Add/Remove to My TIDAL” option selected.
  • TIDAL: curated playlists could appear as modifiable.
  • TIDAL: play version most suitable for current quality settings.
  • New audio player could show duplicate notifications.
  • ExoPlayer v2: updated timeout detection to use correct values.
  • Sign out would not correctly clean up previous user data.
  • Smart playlists could not be removed.
  • [TV] Improve hub scrolling performance.
  • [TV] Playback: holding fast forward/rewind actions don’t update progress bar.
  • [TV] Signing out could result in a crash.
  • [TV] Improve layout of alert dialogs.

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170

Plex for Android 7.10.0.8636-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when pressing “Home” button on devices with Android 5.0.
  • [TV] App could crash when selecting certain view from top bar.

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171

Plex for Android 7.10.0.8745-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android TV platform.

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172

Plex for Android 7.10.0.8832-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android TV platform.

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173

Plex for Android 7.10.0.8852-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • [TV] Mini player view was not focusable on devices with API < 23.

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174

Plex for Android 7.11.0.8947-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] TIDAL: display “Add/remove” action in audio player.
  • [TV] TIDAL: display HIFI indicator in audio player screen.

FIXES:

  • Signing out of the app could leave music playing.
  • TIDAL: select a music video starts playing first item in the hub.
  • Prevent random crash during app use.
  • Player could pick the wrong stream when resuming.
  • Playback: chapter streams would show instead of subtitles.
  • [Sony Android TV] Fix grey background displayed when playing 21:9 HDR videos.
  • [TV] Disable passthrough when playback is started and headphones are connected.
  • [TV] Make sure system screensaver does kick in for music playback.
  • [TV] App could crash while fast scrolling through hubs.
  • [TV] Optical passthrough will now force transcode unsupported multi-channel audio codecs.
  • [TV] App could crash when opening home screen.
  • [TV] Playback could not be stopped correctly in Fire TV device running Nougat.

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Grey bars in HDR instead of black
175

Plex for Android 7.11.0.8965-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Optical passthrough will now transcode 7.1 to 5.1 AC3 if configured appropriately.
  • [TV] Videos would resume from incorrect position after screensaver.
  • [TV] App could crash when closing video player in devices running Android < 7.0.

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176

Plex for Android 7.11.0.8996-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Prevent restrictions applying to audio playback on TV.

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Trouble Adding Music
177

Plex for Android 7.11.0.9025-beta

Available on Google Play.

This release does not include any changes that affect the Android TV platform.

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178

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9084-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Display album reviews in preplay screen.
  • [TV] TIDAL: display badge in preplay screens.

FIXES:

  • IP addresses using the 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 range weren’t detected as local.
  • App could crash on start-up when sorting libraries from an offline server.
  • [TV] Prevent crash when using XML TV guide data with invalid date.
  • [TV] TIDAL: display “Add/Remove from my TIDAL” actions in popular tracks list.
  • [TV] Items could be repeated in home screen “Discover” row.
  • [TV] Prevent possible crash closing video player.

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NVIDIA Shield always transcodes when connected to a local server.
179

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9101-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Reading persisted data could cause app to crash.

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180

Plex for Android 7.12.0.9120-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • [TV] Fix random crash during app use.

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