Download Plex Media Server 1.2.6

Version 1.2.6 of Plex Media Server has been released. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS 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. For the latter, however, additional software is needed 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’. Since version 1.2.2, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.2.6

Fixes:

• (TV) Issues playing transcoded music on the PlayStation 4 and other TV and Web apps. (#5703)

Plex Media Server 1.2.5

Fixes:

• (Music) Issues scanning premium music libraries. (#5684)
• (Metadata) Issues obtaining preview images from fanart.tv. (#5665)

Plex Media Server 1.2.4 (Plex Pass members only)

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.10.7.

Fixes:

• (PS4) Crash starting music playback from a PS4. (#5620)
• (Scanner) Issues handling non-ASCII characters in path names on certain platforms. (#5129) (#5231)
• (Linux) Crashes adding or removing libraries on some platforms. (#5615)
• (Linux) Don’t override the default Python install on Centos/Fedora. (5651)
• (NVIDIA SHIELD) Issues with premium music libraries. (#5643)
• (OS X) Exclude *.photoslibrary from default photos library. (#4910)
• A number of user-reported server crashes. (#5598) (#5644) (#5647)

Plex Media Server 1.2.3 (Plex Pass members only)

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.10.5.
• (Media Flags) Update bundle.
• (Localization) Updated server translations.

Fixes:

• (Network) Clients might incorrectly report a server as unclaimed or remote access as unavailable after network timeouts. (#4994)
• (Streaming Brain) In some cases the server could unexpectedly reserve any remaining bandwidth. (#5447)
• (Streaming Brain) Playback failures on Android. (#5537 #5589)
• (Streaming Brain) Issues starting transcode sessions with OpenPHT. (#5546)
• (Streaming Brain) Issues transcoding sidecar subtitles while Direct Playing a video. (#5540)
• (Scanner) Library section analysis wasn’t always working. (#5536)
• (Scanner) Issues scanning TV series with numeric names. (#5547)
• (Camera Upload) Duplicate photos could be uploaded in some cases on case-sensitive filesystems. (#5509)
• (Camera Upload) Uploads were failing if the target library path didn’t already exist. (#5553)
• (Music) Unplayable music videos might show up after refreshing certain albums. (#5559)
• (Metadata) Issues obtaining preview images from fanart.tv. (#5524)
• (Linux) Transcoder errors caused by an invalid locale configuration on certain systems. (#4717)
• (NAS) Crashes on ReadyNAS 6.6. (#5567)
• (NAS) Issues scanning when paths contained non-ASCII characters. (#5618)

Plex Media Server 1.2.2 (Plex Pass members only)

Fixes:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web 2.9.3, which was missing from the previous release