Like other options, Plex also transcodes on the fly and automatically adjusts its performance and quality for available bandwidth. Plex transforms your library into a visual menu, adding metadata like cover art and IMDB results to enhance your viewing experience. If you have multiple terabytes of media content with metadata, cover art, etc., it will only populate this information as fast as your connection permits.Īside from this folder-specific issue, the menus are beautiful, fast, and easy to navigate from every platform I have tested. The menus are fast and easy to navigate, though I do run into some hiccups trying to browse my stupidly large music collection. One of the first things you’ll notice about Plex is that its menus are beautiful on every platform. Remote access is ready out of the box and does not require any port forwarding or additional setup. Setting up your Plex server is a largely automated process, and getting a stream set up on the other end is usually as simple as downloading the free app for your chosen platform, be it a smart TV, web browser, XBox One, PlayStation, or Apple TV. Or, if you leave your PC on 24/7 you can use that too. Plex can be set up on any hard drive, ideally, a NAS (network-attached storage device), but since I already use a web server to store my media collection I can install Plex on the server. Plex is possibly the most popular media server software out there, as it offers an easy setup and a highly flexible system for managing different types of media libraries. Menus don’t handle large media collections well (depends on connection quality).Many features require a subscription or lifetime pass.
Provide cover art, music videos, trailers, and more.
The Extension is now restricted to tabs with the path "web/index.html" so it won't be in your face all the time.Īdded support for libraries that were shared with you.įixed download link so it will also download pictures not just music. Also rewriting file/pathnames to not conflict with Windows path restrictions. The downloads are now queued in a background script so they will continue even if the active tab is changed. The extension now matches host "" and path "/web/index.html" to try and not be in your face on pages that have nothing to do with Plex.Īdded path match "desktop" because the host isn't using the same path as the self hosted version. If you want to do the same for photos one workaround is to add the selected photos to a new (temporary) album and then download that.Ĭhanged file name of TV Episodes to format 'Series name - Sx圎xx - episode name.format' Downloading only the selected files is currently only possible for music albums. A Chrome extension to assist with downloading multiple files from a Plex server Browse to any album (music, photos, movie collection or tv season) and click the extention icon and then download to start downloading the whole album.
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