Plex 0.9.1.1

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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.

What's new in this version:

NEW: ï»¿Cast information restored to movie information dialog in Plex for Mac.
ï»¿NEW: Ability to choose a specific piece of media to watch (e.g. HD, SD) if you have multiple media items. (You can disable this in Preferences > Video.
ï»¿NEW: Added back "By Albums" in iTunes plug-in. Sometimes all you need is a little more cowbell.
NEW: Allow splitting apart TV Shows and Movies in the media manager. You can see an example here.
ï»¿NEW: Added an... See all new features

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2.0 stars

"User unfriendly"

November 7, 2010 | By mackaay

Version: Plex 0.9.1.1

Pros
Nicely collects information about performers

Cons
Too difficult to use with mouse (and keyboard)

Summary
Needs more work to become really good

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What's new in version 0.9.1.1

NEW: ï»¿Cast information restored to movie information dialog in Plex for Mac.
ï»¿NEW: Ability to choose a specific piece of media to watch (e.g. HD, SD) if you have multiple media items. (You can disable this in Preferences > Video.
ï»¿NEW: Added back "By Albums" in iTunes plug-in. Sometimes all you need is a little more cowbell.
NEW: Allow splitting apart TV Shows and Movies in the media manager. You can see an example here.
ï»¿NEW: Added an "Unwatched" section for Movies and TV Shows.
ï»¿NEW: Added "By Album" in music library sections.
ï»¿NEW: Allow browsing for on-disk graphics (posters/art) in the Media Manager.
NEW: Support for volume control in new remote control protocol.
ï»¿ï»¿NEW: Display number of items for each piece of media (e.g. if you have SD and HD versions of a movie). If you sort by items descending it's a good way to see if you have any duplicated media (Reveal in Finder will show all of them) or if the agents have mistakenly matched two different pieces of media to the same thing. Yes, I'm really this disorganized, or at least I was until now!
NEW: Searching for matches in the media manager is now asynchronous and can be cancelled. Death to beach balls!ï»¿
NEW: ï»¿In Preferences > Transcoding, we've added an option to offer higher bitrates over 3G.
NEW: In Preferences > Library, you can optimize your database.
FIX: That dratted issue with posters and art continually re-downloading off the Internet. The Plex Media Server is now the single entity that downloads the graphics, and all the clients request from it. Expirations have been fixed, and other improvements around caching have been made. The bottom line is that, while not perfect, it should be much, much better. N.B. As part of this change, it's of course going to have to download everything one last time in order to transition over to this new scheme.
FIX: Leopard crash on start (thanks, Ryan!). Also a crash on start when your computer didn't have a name. And a few other crashes on start.
FIX: Stuttering playback (mostly with HD media). In some cases the cache size was being set incorrectly based on bad analysis, and this could lead to stutters during playback.
FIX: Anamorphic videos fix for iOS. Additionally, anamorphic MP4 files play correctly on Plex for Mac (thanks, Ryan!).
ï»¿FIX: High CPU usage during scan, which could cause stuttering during playback as well.
FIX: Plug-ins could go missing in Plex when starting at same time as PMS.
FIX: We now quit the Scanner if the Media Server quits.
FIX: When detecting a rename, we upload location the in the database, otherwise media gets whacked when removing old location.
FIX: When a duplicate episode was found, it lost the "addedAt" time (making it disappear from "recently added").
FIX: Allow backspace to exit the weather section, preferences, and a few other places where you could get stuck with the iOS app.
FIX: The "-1â?³ year issue in list view.
FIX: Better handling of locked database file.
ï»¿FIX: In certain cases, stacked movies were not played in the right order.
FIX: Sometimes partial fanart files were displayed, leading to corrupted images being displayed.
FIX: Better handling for audio/video distinguishing in iTunes for foreign languages.
FIX: Allow changing metadata agent settings when there are no sections.
FIX: Video podcasts passed back as Video elements instead of Track.
FIX: Hebrew subtitles were displaying punctuation incorrectly.
FIX: The word "dvdmedia" was displayed at the end of the movie title.
FIX: Occasionally startup issues could result in agents not showing up, improve the recovery from this.
FIX: Issue on startup, due to space in home folder.
FIX: Videos stopping randomly in the middle of play.
FIX: A few tweaks to the Media Server's menu bar, to make canceling a library refresh possible, and to make it harder to accidentally start one.
FIX: iTunes/iLife plug-ins mysteriously disappearing.
FIX: Lots of crashes while scanning and analyzing media, including some MP3s.
FIX: The Media Server starts (and installs) on a machine without Internet.
FIX: We fixed a .BUP/.IFO ordering issue which could cause a crash when playing a VIDEO_TS movie. You'll need to remove and add the section to fix the ordering (but you won't lose view state/progress doing so).
FIX: A buffer overflow issue reported by d1dn0t, which also caused crashes when navigating into some plug-ins.
FIX: Adding library sections from the command line wasn't working (thanks, Atrus!).
FIX: The library would occasionally refresh continually.
FIX: Crash of the iOS app near the end of a video.