Release notes

Plex Players Player Betas
21

3.0.45

First UWP beta for Windows 10 Mobile!

22

3.0.46

FIX

  • (Home) Home users with a single account could not sign in
23

3.0.47

NEW

  • (Video) Only try to Direct Play HEVC-encoded files if using 4:2:0 chroma subsampling

FIX

  • Fix app hang on splash screen when resuming from termination
  • (Video) Fix bug where reason for server terminating a transcode might not be displayed, if happening right at the beginning of playback
  • (UI) Remove Play/Pause button label in video player
  • (Album) Fix selection in album page
  • (UI) Show “sync” and “players” buttons in thin layout mode
  • (Status) Fix crash on sync status page when in thin layout mode
24

3.0.49

FIX

  • Fix crash when resuming app on photo gallery
  • (Video) Fix video player not being fullscreen
  • (Music) Fix music player not being able to resume after pausing for a while
  • (Music) Correct alignment of music player scrubber blob
  • (Music) Add playlist button
  • (Sync) Fix missing Save button when creating sync item
  • (UI) Show “status” and “servers” buttons in thin layout mode
  • Some other reported crashes
25

3.0.51

FIX

  • (System Transport Controls) Many fixes to make the state coherent with the app state, including the previous/next track
  • (Music) Fix many bugs related to background music playback
  • (UI) Fix Camera Upload status screen on thin app layout
  • (Camera Upload) Fix crash if image is deleted or moved during upload (#1807)
  • (Camera Upload) Ask Windows to allow us to continue uploading images when app is suspended (#1808)
  • (Play Queue) Don’t show Play Queue context menus on photo items, since we don’t actually support them yet (#1792)
  • (Play Queue) When we can’t shuffle a Play Queue, for clarity hide the button instead of disabling it (#1791)
  • (Playlists) Handle music playlists consistently with video playlists (#1178)
  • (Post Play) Make sure that pressing play on the system controls behaves correctly when Post Play is showing
  • Log background audio task also on desktop (previously was only logging on phone)
  • Several bugs reported by users
26

3.0.52

FIX

  • (Sync) Ask Windows to allow us to syncing when app is suspended (#1809)
  • (Sync) Refresh sync items when a sync item is deleted on plex.tv
  • (Movie) Allow queuing commands on Movie page items (#1789)
  • (UI) Fix initial keyboard focus field on sign in and sign up screens (#1788)
  • (UI) Fix Sync status page in thin layout (#1816)
  • (Companion) Fix crash when casting music to remote player
27

3.0.53

FIX

  • (UI) Navigation would not work if the app was started offline with a user not protected by a PIN
  • A number of user-reported crashes

3.0.54

FIX

  • (Movie) Movies with certain extras types caused the app to crash (concert, featurette, short, other)
  • (Server picker) Unavailable servers that could be reached indirectly were not being listed
  • (Server claiming) Only try to claim available servers
  • Opt-in to prelaunch app on Windows 10 Anniversary Update
28

3.0.55

FIX

  • (Account picker) Don’t show back button after going back from PIN entry state
  • Crash at startup on pre-Anniversary Update Windows 10 deployments
29

3.0.56

NEW

  • (Beta only) Add more info to crashes so that current crashes can more easily be tracked down
30

3.0.57

FIX

  • (UI) Move breadcrumbs bar into a separate row on mobile (#1817)
  • (Photos) Initial item selection was not being respected
  • (Photos) Players popup was not usable on photo gallery page
  • (Photos) Fix crash when casting to a remote player
  • (Music) Show album artist instead of track artist (#1823)
  • (Music) Skip buttons are greyed out after song switch while app is in background (#1814)
  • (Music) Player interactivity is broken after being minimized (#1821)
  • (Relay) Wait for indirect connections to become available if doing connection testing
  • (Video) Fix “Session Terminated by Server” error during video playback
  • A number of user-reported crashes
31

3.0.58

FIX

  • (Music) Several fixes to the system transport controls (#1815, #1825, #1813)
  • (Share) Sharing to Plex was not working (#1738)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
32

3.0.59

FIX

  • Extend beta preview period
33

3.0.60

FIX

  • (Artist, WP) Hide music videos pivot if no videos are available
  • Correctly handle OS pre-launch activation (likely to fix some random crashes)
  • Only verify package integrity after a package version upgrade
  • (Cortana) Only install command definitions after a package version upgrade
  • Improve startup performance
34

3.0.63

NEW

  • (Music) Open app on music player when tapping on system transport control artist/song info (#1815)
  • (Movie) Add summary, director and writer, stream selection to movie info pivot in thin state (#1839)
  • Extend app execution if tasks such as Sync and Camera Upload are running (#1836)
  • Only lock account if app is suspended for more than 5 seconds
  • (UI) Make desktop hide entire shell when going full-screen (#1832)
  • (Photos) Make photo gallery page’s header and appbar appear only on interaction (#1832)

FIX

  • (Sharing) Fix use of Plex as a share target
  • (Single Server) Allow selecting unauthorized servers, so that a prompt is shown
  • (Post Play) Don’t show when next/previous is hit (#1693)
  • (Music) Several bugs/stability fixes
  • (Music Player) Improve scaling of UI
  • (Lyrics) Timed lyrics are not updated during audio playback (#1704)
  • (Hubs) Fix season title and subtitle
  • (Security) Show shared servers which are not available as a result of a conflict in the ‘Allow insecure connections’ preference with the server’s own preference
  • A number of user-reported crashes
35

3.0.64

NEW

  • (Photos) Toggle header and app bar when tapping on photo (#1832)
  • Use new Windows Store SDK on Windows 10 Anniversary Update

FIX

  • (Single Server) Allow selecting unauthorized servers, so that a secure connection preference prompt is shown
  • (Music) Play button was causing non-played music to be queued, instead of all music
  • After watching a video, watched status wasn’t updating (#1783)
  • Deleting a video item in preplay page did not erase it from the section list (#1726)
  • On Deck didn’t display new episode once current episode is watched (#1697)
  • Continue Watching hub didn’t display new view once a new video is partially watched (#1697)
  • A number of user-reported crashes
36

3.0.66

NEW

  • Automatically select account when user starts entering PIN

FIX

  • A potential crash at startup if no server is available
  • If secure local connections were blocked by DNS rebinding protection and downgrade was allowed, an insecure alternative connection was not being tested and selected
  • Certain crashes were not being logged
  • Improve reliability of music playback UI after suspending and resuming the app
  • A number of user-reported crashes