Download Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4881

Version 1.23.6.4881 of Media Server has been released. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. 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, Google TV and Chromecast, for example. The program is free to use and also has PlexPass, a paid service that gives access to ‘premium features’ and earlier to new versions. Since version 1.23.4.4805, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.23.5.4801 (Plex Pass users/ beta channel)

New:

• (Web) Updated to 4.59.2

Fixes:

• (Agent) The Plex movie agent was ignoring IMDb ids inside NFO files during matching.
• (Analysis) Music file bitrates contained bitrate for more than just the audio track (#10068)
• (Collections) Respect limit when creating collections from the advanced filters screens (#12622)
• (Collections) Shared smart tv collections could appear empty (#12642)
• (Extras) The TV show extras hub would disappear after playing one of the extras (#12799)
• (Hubs) Disabling the top pinned Recently Added hub would prevent the Merged Recently Added hub appearing (if preference was set) (#12625)
• (Hubs) Hubs relying on ratings would not work as expected when not using Rotten Tomato ratings (#12588)
• (Hubs) Merged Recently Added would not appear for both movies and home videos (if both were pinned, and the preference was set) (#12632)
• (Library) Searches including original titles weren’t working.
• (Metadata) Genres from embedded movie tags could contain unwanted whitespace.
• (Music) Aural fixations were broken for TIDAL subscribers w/o a full Plex Pass (#12812)
• (Music) If genre preference is “Plex Music” don’t read genre from tags (#12812)
• “(Music) Scanning multi-disc albums couldxC2_result in split discs.”
• (Network) DNS lookups could fail on some Linux systems that rely solely on systemd-resolved (#12791)
• (Statistics) Bandwidth usage by device could be logged under a global value instead of individually for each device (#12805)
• (Utilities) The Plex SQLite utility failed to launch on FreeBSD systems (#12796)

Plex Media Server 1.23.5.4841 (Plex Pass users/ beta channel)

New:

• (Web) Updated to 4.59.2

Fixes:

• (Agent) The Plex movie agent was ignoring IMDb ids inside NFO files during matching.
• (Analysis) Music file bitrates contained bitrate for more than just the audio track (#10068)
• (Collections) Respect limit when creating collections from the advanced filters screens (#12622)
• (Collections) Shared smart tv collections could appear empty (#12642)
• (Extras) The TV show extras hub would disappear after playing one of the extras (#12799)
• (Hubs) Disabling the top pinned Recently Added hub would prevent the Merged Recently Added hub appearing (if preference was set) (#12625)
• (Hubs) Hubs relying on ratings would not work as expected when not using Rotten Tomato ratings (#12588)
• (Hubs) Merged Recently Added would not appear for both movies and home videos (if both were pinned, and the preference was set) (#12632)
• (Library) Searches including original titles weren’t working.
• (Metadata) Genres from embedded movie tags could contain unwanted whitespace.
• (Music) Aural fixations were broken for TIDAL subscribers w/o a full Plex Pass (#12812)
• (Music) If genre preference is “Plex Music” don’t read genre from tags (#12812)
• “(Music) Scanning multi-disc albums couldxC2_result in split discs.”
• (Network) DNS lookups could fail on some Linux systems that rely solely on systemd-resolved (#12791)
• (Statistics) Bandwidth usage by device could be logged under a global value instead of individually for each device (#12805)
• (Utilities) The Plex SQLite utility failed to launch on FreeBSD systems (#12796)

Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4810 (Plex Pass users/ beta channel)

NOTE: This release changes how DVR identifies channels internally. You should not notice a change after you upgrade to this release; however, if you then downgrade to an older version of PMS, you will need to refresh your EPG before tuning and recording work as expected.

New:

• (Downloads) Download access now enforced on the server via shared user settings (#12859)

Fixes:

• (Hubs) Stop showing opted out items in Merged Recently Added hubs (#12820)
• (Music) Discovery radio only loaded the first few tracks.
• (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with names including both vertical and horizontal resolutions (#12830)
• (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with version-number suffixes (#12830)
• (Scanner) Some episode files would get skipped if it was a low confidence match (#12861)

Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4881 (Plex Pass users/ beta channel)

New:

• (Downloads) Download access now enforced on the server via shared user settings (#12859)

Fixes:

• (Hubs) Stop showing opted out items in Merged Recently Added hubs (#12820)
• (Music) Discovery radio only loaded the first few tracks.
• (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with names including both vertical and horizontal resolutions (#12830)
• (Scanner) Improved matching for TV episodes with version-number suffixes (#12830)
• (Scanner) Some episode files would get skipped if it was a low confidence match (#12861)
• Issues starting up (database locked)

Plex Media Server 1.23.6.4881 is now available to everyone