Download Plex Media Server 1.4.3
Version 1.4.3 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.
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 1.3.4, the previous public release, the following changes and improvements have been made:
Plex Media Server 1.4.3 (for everyone)
New:
Fixed:
- (macOS) Automatic updates from 1.4.2 were failing. (#6435)
- (Streaming Brain) Occasional crashes when per-user bandwidth limits were enabled. (#6427)
- (Subtitles) Issues playing soft subtitles with certain clients. (#6386)
- (Database) Performance issues or deadlocks optimizing the database while scanning photo libraries. (#6358)
- (Metadata) Preserve customized text fields when unmatching. (#4999)
- (Metadata) Display issues with cast members for certain shows. (#6117)
- (DLNA) Crash setting preferences when preference string in settings was corrupt. (#6421)
Plex Media Server 1.4.1 (for Plex Pass members)
New:
- (DVR) Plex DVR beta 5.
- (macOS) macOS version 10.8 is no longer supported. (#6155)
- (Movies) Add related and post-play hubs for a movie’s collections. (#6005) (#6011)
- (Music) Improved performance of music hubs with large libraries (#6060)
- (Music) Removed ‘Music Videos For Recent Artists’ hub. (#6075)
- (Photos) Added same-day and same-month hubs for photos. (#5666)
- (Metadata) Added hidden ‘ArticleStrings’ preference, a comma-separated list of words considered to be grammatical articles when sorting titles in a library. (#6110)
Fixed:
- (Windows) Work around crash on startup on some Windows 10 installations. (#5719)
- (Web) Transcode multi-channel audio to stereo, when transcoding audio. (#5588)
- (Music) MP3 files with certain ID3v2 tag patterns were being ignored. (#5093)
- (Music) Local lyrics weren’t displayed in certain cases. (#6153)
- (Music) Transcoding lossless audio at ‘original’ quality to a lossy codec could result in low-bitrate output. (#5858)
- (Music) Issues with Plex Mixes on NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5724)
- (Metadata) Sort cast entries from TVDB correctly. (#5744)
- (Metadata) Posters and art were unnecessarily re-downloaded on every refresh. (#6001)
- (Metadata) Score matches similarly for TMDB and IMDB results. (#6027)
- (Metadata) Issues downloading metadata from TVDB over TLS. (#5986)
- (Scanner) Improve performance refreshing album metadata. (#3894)
- (Scanner) Fixed intermittent crash on startup, particularly for FreeBSD users. (#6026)
- (Network) Server would transiently deny access to apps that hadn’t run for a while. (#5443)
- (Network) Server might become unresponsive under load. (#5558)
- (Network) Incorrect Remote Access status reported in some cases. (#5834) (#6105)
- (Subtitles) Prefer embedded subtitles, about agent-provided sidecar subtitles in bundles. (#5848)
- (Database) Improve database backup performance. (#5839)
- (Transcoder) Improve streaming MKV output, improving seek performance with conformant clients. (#2495)
- (Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
- (Sync) Sync items in a failure state might not be cleared on next successful sync. (#6078)
- (Sync) Improved performance when garbage collecting (#6077)
- (Sync) Empty sync items might not be marked as completed. (#6194)
- (NAS) Rare installation failures on Synology devices. (#6045)
- (Channels) Issues on Windows for some channels, eg ExportTools. (#6127)
- (DVR) Fix for post-processing sometimes not moving files into library (#6087)
- (DVR) Fix a rare crash while processing recording schedule (#6050)
- (DVR) When adding or removing a device, make sure we re-run scheduling (#6177)
- (DVR) Support for logical channels in XMLTV, may require remapping.
- (DVR) Support for previously-shown element in XMLTV.
- (DVR) A recording with pre-padding could be canceled prematurely (#6256)
- The default sort order for albums was alphabetical (#6255)
- A rare crash when computing recently added TV shows.
Plex Media Server 1.4.1 (for Plex Pass members)
New:
- (DVR) Plex DVR beta 5.
- (macOS) macOS version 10.8 is no longer supported. (#6155)
- (Movies) Add related and post-play hubs for a movie’s collections. (#6005) (#6011)
- (Music) Improved performance of music hubs with large libraries (#6060)
- (Music) Removed ‘Music Videos For Recent Artists’ hub. (#6075)
- (Photos) Added same-day and same-month hubs for photos. (#5666)
- (Metadata) Added hidden ‘ArticleStrings’ preference, a comma-separated list of words considered to be grammatical articles when sorting titles in a library. (#6110)
Fixed:
- (Windows) Work around crash on startup on some Windows 10 installations. (#5719)
- (Web) Transcode multi-channel audio to stereo, when transcoding audio. (#5588)
- (Music) MP3 files with certain ID3v2 tag patterns were being ignored. (#5093)
- (Music) Local lyrics weren’t displayed in certain cases. (#6153)
- (Music) Transcoding lossless audio at ‘original’ quality to a lossy codec could result in low-bitrate output. (#5858)
- (Music) Issues with Plex Mixes on NVIDIA SHIELD. (#5724)
- (Metadata) Sort cast entries from TVDB correctly. (#5744)
- (Metadata) Posters and art were unnecessarily re-downloaded on every refresh. (#6001)
- (Metadata) Score matches similarly for TMDB and IMDB results. (#6027)
- (Metadata) Issues downloading metadata from TVDB over TLS. (#5986)
- (Scanner) Improve performance refreshing album metadata. (#3894)
- (Scanner) Fixed intermittent crash on startup, particularly for FreeBSD users. (#6026)
- (Network) Server would transiently deny access to apps that hadn’t run for a while. (#5443)
- (Network) Server might become unresponsive under load. (#5558)
- (Network) Incorrect Remote Access status reported in some cases. (#5834) (#6105)
- (Subtitles) Prefer embedded subtitles, about agent-provided sidecar subtitles in bundles. (#5848)
- (Database) Improve database backup performance. (#5839)
- (Transcoder) Improve streaming MKV output, improving seek performance with conformant clients. (#2495)
- (Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
- (Sync) Sync items in a failure state might not be cleared on next successful sync. (#6078)
- (Sync) Improved performance when garbage collecting (#6077)
- (Sync) Empty sync items might not be marked as completed. (#6194)
- (NAS) Rare installation failures on Synology devices. (#6045)
- (Channels) Issues on Windows for some channels, eg ExportTools. (#6127)
- (DVR) Fix for post-processing sometimes not moving files into library (#6087)
- (DVR) Fix a rare crash while processing recording schedule (#6050)
- (DVR) When adding or removing a device, make sure we re-run scheduling (#6177)
- (DVR) Support for logical channels in XMLTV, may require remapping.
- (DVR) Support for previously-shown element in XMLTV.
- (DVR) A recording with pre-padding could be canceled prematurely (#6256)
- The default sort order for albums was alphabetical (#6255)
- A rare crash when computing recently added TV shows.
| Version number | 1.4.3 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, BSD, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| Website | plex |
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| License type | GPL |