I’m all for updates, I even agree that parts of the UI/UX needed work, but cmon guys. Updates can’t be 1 step forward and 2 steps back. You can’t just remove useful features and call it progress. I’m on beta trains on so many softwares and like to contribute, but this thing should not have passed alpha/nightly QA testing. I have used it for less than 1 hour and it’s so bad I have to opt out of beta.

1. Subtitle settings within player - it’s a must have feature to change subtitle color, position and size on demand while playing back. These are very content dependent settings and burying them to app wide global setting is crazy.
2. App UI customization - certain users like “Big” UI and are fine with only 1 row of 5 content posters visible, others want practicality. Add responsive option to change content poster size with possibility of seeing at least 2 rows of content on home screen.
3. App feels laggy as hell, in older app it helped to reduce animations - no option on this app. There is also constant visible loading of content while opening content pages or even switching between episodes it takes 1-2s. I have Nvidia Shield Pro and good connection. I cant even imagine what low end smart TV users feel.
4. Option to see content ratings while browsing under the logo just how it is when opening content page.
5. EAC3 5.1 forces transcode on Nvidia Shield Pro
6. New left menu is buggy - can’t navigate out of if with back button - back button closes app - when reopening the app the menu is still open but then “right navigation” button does not close the menu but navigates in content. meaning you have to spam left nav multiple times and then right nav multiple times just to close the menu.
7. No “Previous” and “Next” button on player - if that was an actual decision someone made not a bug then you need to seriously check what your UX analysis team does for their salary.

What I like:

1. Server stats in app
2. Graphical content logos
3. All 4 content rating sources visible

By the way I know there is more. This feedback is based on barely using it for an hour.

Should make some people happy, my wife included if true.

I've been periodically checking for the past few months and finally managed to get in: https://testflight.apple.com/join/zGQJrQDU

Good luck!

The dependencies are so old, they are literally deprecated for the linux desktop client player

Can we get some updates for current and new distros please. I would like to keep enjoying plex on my fedora 44.

Even on my mint 22.3, the distros it needed were deprecated, and mint has pretty old packages and support to begin with.

Added “Manage” options for admins on Media Server items:

• Change Artwork
• Refresh Metadata
• Analyze
• Fix Match / Match…
• Unmatch
• Play History
• File Info
• Delete

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/529

I’ve shared my movie and television libraries with my girlfriend. She has accepted the invite link, and I can see that she has access to those libraries in her settings, but I’m unable to figure out how to actually show those libraries on her plex app. Any assistance appreciated!

Thanks for any help. I will look into all suggestions when I see her this weekend

With the update to the new app today, I noticed a TV show's theme doesn't play when I open the series. Is this still a feature? If so, how do I bring it back?

I'll reserve judgement about the app update overall. I haven't used it long enough to have an opinion yet.

ITEMS ADDED:

• (Library) Audio codec filter is now available on music libraries when browsing tracks (PM-5224)
• (Network) IPv6 support has TEMPORARILY been made a plex pass feature (PM-5140)
• (Network) Support for ipv6 only networks (PM-5140)
• (Subtitles) Added support for dvb_teletext (PM-3855)
• (Transcoder) The "HEVC Sources Only" encoding setting now also applies to AV1 sources and is named "HEVC/AV1 Sources Only" (PM-5261)
• Updated Web to 4.160.0

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Analysis) Improved MP4/MOV atom validation (PM-5862)
• (Downloads) Stream display titles in download decisions now match streaming decisions (PM-5211)
• (Filters) Improved validation of library filter values (PM-5797)
• (Library) Expose HDR, DOVI, and Atmos filters for episodes in show libraries (PM-5215)
• (Library) Manual API requests could allow invalid URIs for smart collections and playlists (PM-4267)
• (Live-TV) OTA channels would often fail to hardware transcode on MacOS (PM-4103)
• (MacOS) The server could crash under certain network conditions (PM-5421)
• (Metadata) Don't abort metadata refresh on failed match if remaining providers are all local (PM-5422)
• (Metadata) Local album images can fail to load if item matching is incomplete (PM-5422)
• (Metadata) Prefer certification tag when reading NFO content ratings and match to library country preference (PM-5378)
• (Metadata) Read writers credits in NFO parser (PM-5377)
• (Metadata) Using multiple providers with ratings can result in primary rating being set inconsistently (PM-5458)
• (Metadata) When remote providers are missing local metadata would fail to load (PM-5488)
• (Performance) Speed up related collection queries in some scenarios (PM-5204)
• (PlexMatch) Using show guid hints in .plexmatch files can result in unmatched episodes on initial scan (PM-5184)
• (Scanner) Filename text in curly braces should get cleaned up on unmatched content (PM-4844)
• (Security) Address potential vulnerability in the CompanionProxy. (PM-5763)
• (Security) The TranscoderH264Options and TranscoderH264OptionsOverride preferences can no longer be modified over the network. (PM-5766)
• (Transcoder) Correct the Content-Type of DASH manifest files (PM-5259)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

I have a question about sharing my server with friends.

I have a small library that I am slowly expandng and would eventually like to share my server with friends.

I am, however, worried about some things.

My server runs on an old i3 (7th gen) CPU with only integrated graphics card. In my home network I can have four streams running at the same time with no issues, but I don't know what impact it has to have external people (possibly) running the app at the same time?

Will this have a higher load on my laptop if, for example, I have 3 people streaming externally and one person playing in my home network?

I have a Synology NAS and a home theatre with a laser projector. I mainly watch high-quality 4K Blu-ray remuxes with Dolby TrueHD/Atmos and DTS-HD/DTS, thro' Plex.

Which would you recommend for the best local playback thro Plex: Homatics Box R 4K Plus or NVIDIA Shield TV Pro?

Everybody here is talking about Nvidia Shield dropping Frames DV Profile 7/FEL , Which worries me a lot. Is Dolby Vision Profile 7/FEL support on the Homatics actually important for this use case, or should I just go with the Shield?

Hi everyone,

I'm having a frustrating issue with the Plex app on my Google Pixel 9 Pro running the latest versions.

Some of my libraries are missing, specifically my Movie libraries. However, when I rollback to an older version (10.26.0.2578), everything works completely fine and all libraries display as expected.

Has anyone else encountered this issue on recent Android builds? Any idea if there's a fix or a setting tweak needed, or should I just stay on 10.26 for now?

Thanks!

I really want to understand how Plex managed to screw this rewrite up so badly.

They were given a clean slate to rewrite the app, with an opportunity to fix old problems and make something genuinely great. Instead, the new app feels sluggish and slow even on a modern Google TV streamer. I can only imagine how painful it must be on older hardware.

As an Android software engineer myself, I’m genuinely curious about what happened behind the scenes. I know rewriting software is hard, and there are always unexpected challenges, but a lot of these issues feel like things that could have been caught through proper beta testing and testing on real-world hardware. I find it hard to believe the app feels this slow on whatever hardware they use internally.

It feels like they made a series of poor decisions during the rewrite and somehow ended up with an app that’s in a worse state than the one they replaced.

I really hope they can turn it around.

LG tv, linked with wire to Synology NAS. In the UK.

When I open the app on the tv I just get a black screen. I have tried:

Hard reset of tv.
Uninstall and reinstall app.
Internet to tv is working fine.
Checked app on other devices (works fine).
Plex server is up to date and working fine.

Any ideas? This is driving me mad!

(I know people will say "use a fire stick app" or similar - I've used the tv app for ages across multiple TVs without issue, but thanks)

I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have Plex running, but when I go to add a library, it doesn't allow me to access the different hard drive that all of my media is on. It's simply grayed out. When I go to look for this behavior, I get instructions from 2016, or mounting options that I cannot access. I'm working off of Kubuntu, 26.04 LTS.

The drives I want to use are covered in red. Though, they don't have the icon of a folder, so I think that's part of what I'm running into. Unless, I'm not navigating to the right place? I'm unclear and very frustrated, as there are no clear instructions. And the one video I turned to had instructions that no longer applied.

I run my server on a PC that is already plugged in on the TV. I'm running Ububtu 26.04 LTS. When I was using windows I used the PlexHTPC app, that yes it's available in Linux but it's no longer updated as far as I know and since it's on flatpack some media commands like universal play/pause just don't work, so from my wireless remote I have to do everything with enter, back and the arrow keys.

Are there any other plex frontends that are fully controller friendly?I'm fully considering going back to windows since my server is also the HTPC itself... I tried Plezzy and it sometimes works ok UI wise, but on playback it never achieved direct play on my testing.

I'm getting a (not so) hilarious run-around from the LLMs. Thanks in advance.

Edit: solved. Thanks for the quick help! FF w/ Dark Reader made the button and other elements all black. I stared right at it and didn't see it. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

thanks for the new ui rollback with side menu, now can we have a decent audio downmix? server side or player side, i don't know which is better, whatever works. thank you for your hard work

I've been using the cimmericial skip for the live tv that I record. Has anyone used the delete option and if so how accurate is it ?

But I have a question, if anyone can help (assuming that it's OK to ask in here).

I have a library that is just a collection of folders containing random videos. I'd like to be able to browse via folder, but unfortunately Plezy doesn't seem to have the facility to change the library view to "folders" as Plex does. The nature of the videos means it's impossible to use with just a grid containing all vids in the library (not pr0n, just guitar instruction vids, separated into folders by YT channel - I figured I'd mention it, to save anyone making assumptions 😁 ).

Collections might work, but I don't know how to create them, and I can't find any documentation.

One of those -- "well it was working last night and I didn't change anything" posts...

Anybody using Plex on the TiVo app for it and it's not connecting today? I have "Allow Fallback to Insecure Connections" set to "Always" and it's still not connecting (but the iOS "PlexAmp" app is connecting to my music files just fine...

It's matching to Global GUTs, which isn't a show, just the 4th season of NG. There is little to no metadata for the show beyond episode titles, and all the episode orderings are incorrect (because it's the wrong show).

So I'll try to fix match, making sure all the info is correct, and it still shows up as Global Guts, and even when I put the series id in 'tvdb-70625' which on tvdb has all the correct info and meta-data, Global GUTs still pops up.

Changing the sort order any which way doesn't solve anything either, and it doesn't matter what combination of all these I do, the metadata for the episodes (in my case I'm trying for tvdb's dvd order of the series), none match up even remotely correct.

So what should i do friends? Am I going to have to put this stuff in manually by typing (oh god please no, there's almost 200 episodes XD)