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Description:
Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.
Media Management
Organize all of your media, from local drives, network shares, optical media and the Internet, in one easy to use application. Plex supports a wide range of video, audio and image formats without having to install any additional third party plug-ins or programs. Plex will make the days of trying to find the right plug-in to work with the right application a thing of the past.
Skinable Interface
Plex includes a highly customizable skinning engine that allows users to alter the entire user interface. Colors, controls, navigation, positioning of elements, animation, even adding additional functionality can be achieved with a skin. Each skin provides a totally different user experience. Many skins have been designed with high definition wide-screen televisions in mind and will look great on your 720p or 1080p television. With Plex and custom skins, your media center experience will rival (or even exceed!) that of costly closed media center systems.
Library
Being able to play all your media in one application is great. Being able to do that and automatically download movie and TV show artwork, fan-art, plot and episode information as well as artwork and artist/album information for your music is simply brilliant! The Library does the work so you spend less time organizing your media and more time enjoying it. Looking for a romantic comedy? Browse by genre. Looking for a horrible movie to make fun of? Sort by IMDB rating and pick the bottom one!
NEW: Plug-in preferences show up on the context menu for the plug-in itself.
NEW: Auto-sourcing of remote Plex Media Server iLife plug-ins. Let’s say you have a laptop with iTunes music, or your wife’s iMac has iPhoto on it. No longer do you have to manually add the sources, or wonder if they’ll work when you click on them. With the new version, sources add and remove themselves auto-magically thanks to Bonjour. Make sure you install the new Plex Media Server on the remote machines.
FIX: A bug where Plex and the Plex Media Server could get out of sync and display the wrong contents for a directory.
FIX: An issue when stopping music playback, where the GUI “clicks” don’t restore and the playing track is still selected.
FIX: Photo thumbnails were broken for plug-ins (thanks to orr721 for the report!)
FIX: Hitting the menu button during a blank slideshow causes a crash. (thank to Majkel and other for the report!)
FIX: When a track fails to play, Plex jumps into (blank) Now Playing screen anyway.
FIX: Sometimes the photo screensaver started going “crazy fast”.
FIX: The new remote code logged too much.
FIX: The duration didn’t show up in plug-ins.
FIX: You weren’t returned to the main menu correctly from items added to your Favorites, or direct links to plug-ins in the Music section. Existing favorites will need to be removed and re-added. (James)
FIX: The iTunes plug-in now sorts artists by the “sort artist” field in iTunes. This one is for Scott!
FIX: Crashes with WebKit plug-ins that appear in the Music section.
FIX: Sometimes Plex didn’t start after the first run. Believe it or not, this was an OS X bug, now worked around.
FIX: Plex hung when using the mouse wheel to scroll through text (thanks to hqrs for the report!)
FIX: Changed the servers in the TVDB scraper to use the load balanced ones. (many thanks to kruisje for the fix!)
FIX: Fixed a crash loading some RAW files.
FIX: DTS-to-AC3 was broken in the last release. Thanks to our audio doctor Ryan who fixed it and improved the AC3 trancoding in the process.
FIX: When you select “previous track” it now does the right thing with streamed content: moving to the start of the track or the previous track depending on how far along the track is (awesome, James!)
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