Download Plex Media Server 0.9.14.6 / 0.9.15.0

Plex released two new versions of Media Server on Wednesday. Version 0.9.14.6 is a public release and version 0.9.15.0 is for paid PlexPass subscribers only. Plex Media Server is an open source media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and various NAS devices. The software can serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Client software is available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Google TV and Chromecast, for example. However, the latter requires additional software to get the stream on the Chromecast.

The program includes its own software store where plug-ins can be exchanged. For example, content from various streaming services can be viewed via these plug-ins. In addition, there is PlexPass, a paid service that gives early access to new versions, in addition to discounts on ‘Premium features’. New in version 0.9.15.0 includes support for lyrics, while 0.9.14.6 only contains some bug fixes. Since the previous public release, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 0.9.15.0 (Plex Pass only)

New

• Lyrics!
• Allow overriding log file location using an environment variable, on non-Windows platforms.

Fixes

• Apple TV could display subtitle streams as English instead of the actual language.
• (Media Optimizer) Display correctly set of optimized videos for unwatched-only optimizations.
• (Media Optimizer) Don’t fail if the file system doesn’t support creating a dot-prefixed directory.
• Update plex.tv information when secure connections preference changes.
• Browse errors in some clients after restricting music library sharing by album label.
• In rare cases, newly added episodes might not receive correct metadata.
• (Windows) Crash on startup if iTunes registry key is corrupted.
• (Windows) Show DTS-HD media flag correctly.
• Improved last.fm scrobble support.
• Remove an unused file that could trigger false positives from anti-virus scanners.

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.6

Fixes

• (Sync) Stability improvements
• (Windows) Improve handling of library sections pointed at the root of a volume
• Occasional failures detecting Internet connectivity
• Signing out didn’t always work

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.5 (Plex Pass only)

Fixes

• (Sync) Sync and Cloud Sync stability improvements
• (Sync) Update cloud automatically when Cloud Sync items are deleted.
• (Sync) Subtitles would not be burned in unless manually selected.
• Crashes using the legacy transcoder.
• Crashes signing out of server.
• Playback could end early when subtitles were enabled.
• WebVTT subtitles could cause playback to fail.
• (OS X) Incomplete or invalid media analysis results for some streams.

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.4 (Plex Pass only)

Fixes

• Improve reliability of free disk space check.
• Fix broken playback on PlayStation and possibly the iOS v3.5 app.
• Resolved subtitle issues in files without audio.
• (Sync) Subtitles were sometimes not enabled when they should have been.

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.2 (Plex Pass only)

New

• Allow client profiles to prefer MP3 over AAC audio when transcoding stereo sources.
• Allow client profiles to specify a protocol when declaring Direct Play support.
• Write server and operating system version info to every log file.
• Advise clients when HTTPS is configured to be required.

Fixes

• (Sync) Sync v1 clients wouldn’t download new files until server restart.
• (Sync) Fix composite images for photo albums.
• Fix iTunes channel playback issues
• Fix filter requests with studio names containing commas.
• Refresh cached transcoded thumbs when underlying photo changes.
• Don’t show older unwatched episodes in OnDeck after watching a newer one.
• Media analysis could generate duplicated streams in some rare cases.
• Sort Artist metadata could be overwritten when updating other metadata.
• Fix a socket leak that could cause the server to become unresponsive.
• Fix an issue with transcoded subtitles on Firefox
• Disallow transcoding online content for non-owners unless channels are shared.
• Don’t start streaming transcode sessions when disk space is too low.

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.1 (Plex Pass only)

Fixes

• Xbox 360 playback issues
• Apple TV playback issues with MP4 videos containing MP3 audio
• Prefer MP3 to AAC when transcoding for Apple TV
• Occasional failures moving items within a play queue

Plex Media Server 0.9.14.0 (Plex Pass only)

New

• Translations for Estonian, Japanese, Romanian and Russian.
• Rich support for “soft” subtitles, including WebVTT.
• Upgraded transcoder.
• Allow user to install a custom SSL certificate.
• (Windows) Partial directory scanning support added.
• Improvements when Direct Streaming high-quality files for Roku devices.
• Support for OCSP stapling.
• Add support for flagging “sidecar” subtitles as forced or default.
• Add support for compressed responses to the HTTP client.
• (API) Support for recursive play queue generation (useful for photos).
• (API) Add repeat=1 to play queue endpoint.
• (API) Add count parameter to search endpoint.
• Get all genres for album and artist from tracks.
• Increase maximum available video quality
• Add support for generating chapter thumbnails.
• Use language settings from plex.tv for server owner.
• Support transcoding of theme music.

Fixes

• A number of transcode and analysis crashes on Windows.
• A transcoder crash involving large WTV files.
• Fix a crash during multiple simultaneous calls to /prefs endpoint.
• Some issues around MPEG-DASH playback.
• Improved reporting of bandwidth in HLS manifests.
• When enabling remote access failed, the web UI might not show the error.
• Album artwork could go missing in searches.
• Fix incorrect reporting or transcoding in the web activity page.
• When otherwise equal, prefer sidecar subtitles.
• When signing out having enabled “only secure connections”, you could become locked out.
• Support “original” quality for audio.
• Searches including an apostrophe character would fail.
• Restricting music by sharing label didn’t allow access to tracks.
• Refresh “Recently Added” discovery areas more often.
• Make sure Plex Mix doesn’t duplicate the first (seed) track.
• Search also looks in original title field.
• When changing fields and artwork in quick succession, sometimes a change would be lost.
• After resetting password, plugins could stop working.
• Return similar artists in related discovery items.
• (Windows) Don’t prompt during install of autoupdates.
• Audio languages ​​now include “Uncoded Languages” and “English (Unlocalized)”.
• If SSL certificate doesn’t match cloud’s fingerprint, request a new one.
• Home video discovery area didn’t work with restricted accounts.
• (iOS) Fix an issue where (i) button on a track doesn’t work.
• Improve auto-selection or multi-channel audio streams.
• Videos inside discovery areas could incorrectly report being multi-part.
• Set year when setting air/release date.
• Prefer albumartistsort tag above artistsort for m4v music files (same as mp3).
• Only use iTunes-style metadata for movies when not empty (fixes blank writers/directors/actors).
• iTunes channel might not work with non-default iTunes library location.
• For albums with tracks from different years, use highest for album year.
• Fix for artist names in flac music files.
• Fix for TheMovieDB season and episode images.
• Make “respect tag” preference work for basic music library.
• Clearing an originally available date could reset the year to 1900.
• Detect when index files are manually deleted.
• A case where composites for photo albums didn’t display correctly.
• Fix for resuming video on an unreleased app for an unreleased fruit-themed device.

Plex Media Server 0.9.12.19

Fixes

• Improved subtitle handling on Apple TV
• Improved Direct Play support on Apple TV