Release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
1

3.0.10

NEW

  • Initial beta release
2

3.0.11

FIX

  • Clicking on the same library section twice makes Browse section become empty (#1581)
  • App crashes when being resumed
  • Clear hubs when switching account or server
3

3.0.12

FIX

  • Fix wrong count of search results (#1552)
  • Fix subsequent searches showing the same results as the first one (#1588)
  • Fix navigation to library sections of the same type showing the same content as the first one (#1592)
  • Fix occasional unintended navigation to home page
  • A number of user-reported crashes
4

3.0.13

NEW

  • (UI) Update PQ [+] button to Sort/View Type style (#1590)
  • (UI) Improve Sync Item popup
  • (UI) Double-click to toggle full screen state

FIX

  • (Hubs) Display items from servers which don’t support hubs (#1569)
  • (Movie) Display studio logo
  • A number of user-reported crashes
5

3.0.14

NEW

  • (Music) Add volume control in music player page
  • (Remote) Handle play/pause key in video player page

FIX

  • A number of user-reported crashes
6

3.0.15

NEW

  • (UI) Update currently selected library section indicator on navigation page

FIX

  • (Companion) Fix non-responsiveness when app is serving as a remote player
  • (Theme music) Don’t play theme music when navigating back to a page (#1584)
  • (UI) Remove right and bottom margins on home page
  • A number of user-reported crashes
7

3.0.16

NEW

  • (Video) Display buffer underflow warning as an overlay instead of a toast (#1604)
  • (UI) Show progress on library sections and server picker

FIX

  • (Music) Playing music from artist page resulted in an error
  • (Video) Empty ratings menu (#1603)
  • (Video) Pause video playback when app is hidden
  • (Movie) Don’t list trailer in Extras section
  • (Movie) Long summaries were cropped
  • Back button was not visible on popups displayed on home page
  • A number of user-reported crashes
8

3.0.17

FIX

  • (UI) Minor aesthetic fixes
9

3.0.18

NEW

  • (UI) Add scroll bar to server list
  • (UI) Only enter full screen mode if in tablet mode
  • (Video) Show Volume/Fullscreen/Zoom buttons on when wide (#1547)
  • (Music) Make clickable artist/album on player page more obvious
  • (Music) Display remaining time on player page

FIX

  • (Movie) Selecting any video from the extras causes playback of the actual movie (#1594)
  • (Video) Do not display server termination message if use-initiated
  • (Channels) Fix thumbnail size
  • (Music) Fix playback initiated from artist page
  • (Post Play) Fix image of previous episode (#1573)
  • (Status) Fix layout of Friends pivot
  • (UI) Fix visibility rules for buttons on the app bar in show, season, episode and movie pages
  • A number of user-reported crashes
10

3.0.19

NEW

  • (Season) Seasons can now be marked as watched/unwatched (#1615)
  • (Episode) Minor UI improvements in episode page
  • (Video) Media versions can now be selected for playback on the app bar (#1567)

FIX

  • (Music) Don’t hide volume button in player (#1547)
  • (UI) Home page items now update when item is viewed or marked as watched (#1570, #1556)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
11

3.0.20

NEW

  • (Hubs) Limit hub to one scrollable line (#1555)
  • (Hubs) Increase number of hub items (#1555)
  • (Play Queue) Add support for reordering playlists (#1597)
  • (Home) Add Watch Later and Recommeded sections (#1612)
  • (Search) Item sizes are now appropriate for each category

FIX

  • (Browse) Fix crash in browse sections
  • (Play Queue) Fix shuffle and delete in video play queue popup (#1596)
  • (Hubs) Fix refresh of items in hubs (#1556)
  • (Movie) Make hubs occupy a single row
  • (Photos) Make keyboard arrows work on photo gallery
  • (Photos) Fix photo zoom (#1614)
  • (UI) Make app window start in the same position and state as the last session
  • (UI) Miscellaneous UI tweaks and fixes
  • A number of user-reported crashes
12

3.0.21

FIX

  • Switching sorting direction twice breaks album display in music section (#1630)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
13

3.0.22

NEW

  • Group left navigation bar items
  • (Music) Add ‘repeat’ and ‘shuffel’ to player (#1620)
  • (UI) Implement in-app toast messages (#1634)
  • (UI) Several minor UI tweaks and improvements

FIX

  • (Companion) Timelines were being reported to players every 5 seconds, instead of every second (#1599)
  • (Lyrics) Fix lyrics display (#1574)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
14

3.0.23

NEW

  • (Playlists) Add duration to playlists (#1622)
  • (Music) Second line of info added to music hub items (#1622)
  • (Music) Play button added to album page track list (#1622)
  • (Music) Tapping items shows flyout in album page tracklist (#1622)
  • (Online) Warn when there is no connection or no items in Recommeded and Watch Later sections (#1519)
  • (UI) Several minor UI improvements

FIX

  • (Semantic Zoom) Fix semantic zoom in several views (#1624)
  • (Lyrics) Close lyrics view if returning to the music player and lyrics are no longer available
  • (Online) Hide Channels and Playlists sections if user has no access to them (#1641)
  • (UI) Improvements to behavior of Software Input Pad in the app (#1636)
  • (Video) Could not reach UI on the left side of the app window when video was playing (#1639)
  • Unable to scroll through list of friends during recommendation for watch later videos (#1644)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
15

3.0.24

NEW

  • (Cortana) Cortana support is here! Due to a bug in Insider builds, it is only available on regular builds
    • Try Play the (movie, show, episode, song, album,artist) (title of the media) on Plex
  • (Lyrics) Show progress while fetching lyrics (#1543)
  • (Lyrics) Display error message after fetching lyrics, if any (#1543)
  • (Music) Drag & drop reordering of items in the music player (#1583)
  • (Music) Add flyout to tracks on music player (#1583)
  • (Channel Store) Add channel store UI (#1635)
  • (UI) Several minor UI improvements
  • Display message when loopback exemption is needed

FIX

  • (Lyrics) Fix crash when scrolling lyrics
  • (Watch Later) Video offsets were not being saved (#1645)
  • (Local videos) Fix playback of local videos (#1666)
  • (Sync) Synced items are not displayed on ‘This Device’ (#1659)
  • (Libraries) Ratings were not displayed when sorting in ascending order by rating (#1651)
  • (Shows) Unable to play from TV Show or Season level if all episodes have been marked as watched (#1671)
  • (Video) Unable to view play queue during video playback (#1650)
  • (Music) Shuffle/Repeat button state in music player is inconsistent (#1655)
  • (Music) Fix session timeout when resuming playback from a post-0.9.17 server after 3 minutes of pause (#1662)
  • (Music Section) Fix crash when switching to Browse mode in music section (#1653)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
16

3.0.25

NEW

  • (UI) Movie progress indicator and watched status is now displayed on all pages (#1660)
  • Servers on the LAN can now be claimed from the app (#1637)

FIX

  • (Music) Playback start should now be more resilient (#1660)
  • (Preplay) Summary wasn’t scrollable
  • (Preplay) Item wasn’t marked as viewed after video finished playing (#1683)
  • Breadcrumbs were not displayed when the app resumed
  • Fix crash when marking media as viewed
  • A number of user-reported crashes
17

3.0.26

NEW

  • (UI) Show hint when there are no playlists of a certain type (#1686)
  • Backspace will now go back
  • (Preplay) Add fallback cast images (#1690)

FIX

  • (Video Player) Fixed error changing stream on a movie
  • Focus wasn’t getting set correctly when navigating
  • Added “Scan Section” on section pages where is was missing
  • (Preplay) Play button in appbar was visible while the app was thin when it shouldn’t have been
  • Relative dates were not consistent with Plex Web (#1652)
  • (Movie) Progress indicator was missing from browse pivot (#1660)
  • (Watch Later) Corrected thumbnail (#1654)
  • Fixed some item widths not being set correctly when navigating
  • (Music) Fix music task not shutting down correctly (#1663)
  • (Status) Adding Sync button
  • (Flyouts) Slide out instead of resizing (#1688)
18

3.0.27

NEW

  • (Preplay) F5 refreshes preplay page

FIX

  • (Preplay) mark shows up instead of stars when rating videos (#1687)
  • (Search) Adding spaces before or after search keywords returns different results (#1680)
  • Watch Later filter options do not work (#1682)
  • Crash at startup introduced in 3.0.26
19

3.0.28

FIX

  • (Music) Error when playing music filtered by rating (#1665)
  • (UI) Horizontal hub lists sometimes scroll with mouse wheel (#1691)
  • (UI) Fix side navigation bar sometimes disappearing when refreshing home page
  • “On Deck” section does not refresh after playing an episode from “Continue Watching” (#1692)
  • (Companion) Unable to fling photos to app from remote device (#1673)
  • (Video) Timeline updates stopped getting sent to server after playing first part of a multi-part video
  • (Now Playing) This time for real! - fix music position not being restored after reopening app (#1483)
  • The protection for key repetition on the PIN pad was preventing fast entry of PIN
20

3.0.29

NEW

  • (Containers) Added PlayQueue actions and multiselect (#1664)
  • (Sign up) Updated wording and UI
  • (Cortana) New command: “Shuffle the {artist, album, show} on Plex” (#1546)

FIX

  • (Now Playing popup) UI improvements
  • (UI) Cannot scroll horizontal hub lists with arrow buttons (#1695)
  • (Album Page/Music Player) Improved tap/hold/right-click behavior (#1664)
  • (Music Player) PlexMix was not working on later tracks
  • (Preplay) Don’t crop cast backings
  • (Preplay) Fix crash with no-name actors
  • (Focus) Focus works much better on home and section pages (#1536)
  • (Cortana) Playing a show can now continue watching where you left off (#1546)
  • A number of crashes