Hej,

Since I moved plex to my NUC, it has been chugging along to “analyze” the 8000 folders. This has been going on for three weeks or so and I haven’t been able to r play any music from my library. I have no idea what the status is of pms wrt updating the music library.
I have the plex music player installed, that gives me an error message and the plex app starts playing and just stops and jumps to the next two tracks and stops. Plex still works for playing movies etc but I would like to play my music and at some point move away from Spotify.

LG C2 webOS connected to a Denon AVR via ARC, does not support DTS which is fine. But the Plex server converts DTS audio to AAC 5.1 which ends up as 2.0 PCM on the AVR.

Is there a way to tell the Plex server to transcode DTS to AC3 instead which should work fine (at least it works when the audio is already AC3 on the server)?

I'm new to any server or mini pc stuff and am currently running plex off my gaming pc. It's in my room and don't want it on 24/7. Looking at different solutions including nas setup and mini pc's. I have a Seagate 16tb external storage. Sorry if I'm overlooking something simple just dove into the plex stuff like a week ago.

I have been seeing these complete desktops for sale with the Intel 14400F with a RTX 3060 or 4060 starting at about $550 (at bestbuy). From what I have read the F signifies that it lacks an iGPU. Will the RTX 3060 or 4060 be enough by itself for transcoding since the F lacks the iGPU to do so? I'm not sure if they work concurrently or it's an either or situation.

Thanks.

I'm trying to figure out a way to setup a computer at a different location to act as an alternate host for my plex server. Here's my theorized layout: The primary server at location 1 is the one changes are made to such as media additions. The secondary server at location 2 downloads all content from server 1 to provide faster local access to people at location 2, but also acts as a fallback if the internet were to go out at location 1.

Is this feasible??? I don't want to have to set up a second server and reshare it with everyone but could if that's the only way. The best way I could think of is maybe a plugin that auto-downloads/syncs media to a plex client instead of a server and turn on the advertise as server setting. Would this work?? and if so does anyone have recommendations on how to automate syncing content?

• Plex Media Server (settings and server "signature")

So far, every time I’ve reinstalled Plex Media Server, a new server is created (despite logging into the same account and using the same name). This requires re-authorizing all devices. Is there a way to maintain server continuity, including its approved clients and settings, across fresh installs?

Hey everyone,

I’m running into an issue with my Plex server and a VPN setup, and I could use some advice. I want Plex to bypass the VPN and use my regular internet connection so that remote access works properly.

I’m running Plex on a Beelink mini PC with Linux Ubuntu. My VPN client is AirVPN using the Eddie client. I’ve configured Eddie to route Plex traffic outside the VPN tunnel by adding both the private and public IPs of my Plex server to the routing settings. But as soon as I turn on the VPN, Plex loses remote access and says it’s unavailable. I used to run Plex on Windows with Surfshark, and their split-tunneling feature let me keep Plex out of the VPN tunnel without any issues. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Surfshark doesn’t have that feature on Linux.

Port forwarding is correctly set up on my router, and everything works fine when the VPN is off. I’ve also manually set the public port in Plex and disabled UPnP, but the issue persists.

Any advice or tips to get this sorted would be awesome. Thanks!

What if you have some money you wanna throw at a plex server, say 5 grands

I had to work thru a problem and after some help found out that a user had to be added to my Home Plex group. Problem was solved.

It does make me question though, what is the difference from a "normal" user that you have given access to, in my case a nephew and my wife who just was added to the Home Plex group

I see that there is a warning about security and such, but I really do not understand what the actual difference between a Home Plex user and just normal account is.

Any pointers helpful, thanks in advance.

Hello, I’m new here. My goal right now is to set up a family media server, streaming to about 4-6 people at any given time. Below is are the specs of the mini PC I’m looking to purchase.

Beelink Mini PC EQi12, Intel Core 1220P(Max 4.4GHz 10C/12T), 24GB LPDDR5 5200MHz 500GB PCle4.0 SSD Mini Computers,Dual LAN/Wifi6/BT5.2,Dual 4K Display,Built-in Power Supply Office Mini PC

I was looking to boot Unraid on this and have an external hard drive bay attached with a few hard drives of various sizes. Still super new to this but the mini pc seems to meet my future proofing criteria and projected streaming ability, just worried about what to do about storage. The idea of a NAS seemed redundant to me with a mini PC hosting Plex media server, so the DAS idea seemed appealing. Any ideas? I probably got the wrong terminology so my apologies!

If I have a 4k video file on my Plex server and play it on an Apple TV 4k that is connected to a 1080p TV, where does the transcoding happen (if at all)? Does the Apple TV 4k request a 1080p stream from the Plex server since that's as high as the TV can handle, therefore forcing the Plex server to transcode the file to 1080p? Does the Apple TV 4k pull a 4k stream from Plex and then convert it to 1080p? Or does the TV receive the 4k feed and show it at 1080p?

Designed to jump on the bandwagon after forced migration by $ynology to discontinue Video Station, an app which is the primary reason I went for Synology at the first place, and its ease to use with the intuitive and simple UI has benefited my parents who are not tech-savvy. Good luck with $ynology saving a few bucks per user and basically ask us to GF yourself.

Decided to go for Plex with the BF campaign, as a newcomer to Plex, would anyone be able to advise an metadata scraping agent that is best suited for Anime? Does it matters if my folders are named in characters other than English, say Japanese or Chinese for it to work properly with the built in agent, or TVDB/ TMDB/ HAMA?

Thanks a ton!

Hey all,

This Christmas I have given myself the task of digitizing all of our home movies from old tapes and dvd's and putting them on the plex for the whole family to be able to access. Since I am having to record these home movies myself via capture card there is no metadata associated with them. How would someone go about trying to organize these random clips and tapes across many years into a format that my non techy family would be able to easily navigate?

Originally I was just thinking to add everything by year in folders and call it good but I was hoping there was a way I could add descriptions to each video so they can be giving some background info. Any and all ideas on how something like this could work would be super helpful. Thanks!

I am new in Plex and would like help in resolving an issue. Here is my set up.

I have a TrueNas server to which I am running Plex. I have also a Denon 7.2 channel AV receiver and a Roku Streaming media player plugged into one of the HDMI port of my receiver. I use Roku as my Plex client. The AV receiver is connected to A Samsung TV via ARC. Source movie is a 4K Blu Ray rip with 5.1 AAC. Plex recognized the file as AAC 5.1. However my Denon is receiving only 2-channel PCM. Can somebody tell me what settings to change so that I can have a multi channel input for my receiver?

Tnank you for the help.

My friends are telling me that they keep getting bombarded with ads telling them to buy Plex pass while they were watching a movie on my Plex account. Did something change? Do they now have to pay for Plex Pass?

I have added to my Plex server local live TV via antenna and box to connect to network. I have added the feature into plex, and when I am logged in under my admin account at home, it works great.

My question is my wife has an account on Plex as well, but not paid for, and she can see all the libraries I have shared with her and watch everything with no problems.

But now that I have added the live tv stream, she cannot see it under her live tv section.

Is there anyway to make this happen where I can share my live tv with other users? I searched the settings for library permissions for the users but could not see where I could add this.

I’m running plex in a docker container but it’s still going down randomly. I am wanting to automate the restart if something fails so I dont have to wait for my users to tell me it’s down. I was thinking something like a curl to my plex server over port 32400 or something but I’m curious if someone’s found a better way to check plex status.

The default plex healthcheck is doing its thing but I still need something to automate the restart if certain conditions fail like if my plex server isn’t reachable or goes down.

What is everyone else doing for health checks and automated restarts?

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to get a hypnosis training I bought a while back. It's hosted on the Kajabi platform, and I'd rather watch it on my TV. Not by hooking up a computer to the TV.

So I downloaded all of the videos into separate folders. I've made a screenshare of what I've done. Can someone please explain how I can get these to load up properly in Plex.

I've made a folder called courses and put my folder of the hypnosis trainings in there. If you watch the video, it'll explain my situation a little bit better.

https://youtu.be/jdyLQc8PQRg

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I need a free software to rename the files.

I’ve been thinking about using Plex off and on for the last 6 months. I‘ve only had people who’ve had access to a friends library as an end user, and don’t know anyone who hosts their own server and when I cut cable, that’s when I saw that Plex is a viable alternative for some free movies.

As I think about it, I’m low key considering just buying a lifetime pass - I know it doesn’t give me access to more content, but gives me the ability to host my own content if I want in the future, if I understand correctly. So I’m thinking about playing around with it and possibly starting a small server - somewhat just to stay up with the technology.

I had a few questions -

- Plex advertises as part of an account feature that you can use it to create a unified Watchlist for all your potential shows and movies, regardless of the platform it’s on. How does that work? Thats one of my complaints about having multiple streaming platforms is you have multiple watchlist? Do you create a watchlist in Plex and it links to the streamer you need to watch it directly from the Plex app?

- when you place your content on the server (in my case, an old MacBook Pro could be the server?), it has to be always on from what I’m reading. Does it really always have to be on, or only when you want to access your Plex account? Can the laptop sleep? If I really liked it, I could upgrade and expand to other types of servers, like Nvidia Pro Stream?

- how long does it take you to rip a DVD these days? I have a few in my collection. Do they come out as good quality? A friend and I ripped an adult movie once years ago and the quality was okay, lol, but I’m sure the technology has changed significantly since then. What do you use to retain the DVD quality?

- is your stuff secure? Is there any reason for it to be secure?

Thanks for any tips or tricks.

Hi guys, as the title says, will a pro desk 400 g6 mini pc be okay to run a plex media server? Managed to get one for $50 aud

Currently have it set up through my gaming pc but I'm wanting to seperate the server

Thank you in advance

Hi Everybody, So I’m starting the process of setting up my first Plex server on my Mac, and I was wondering if there were any OSX settings specifically that I need to change in order for my server to be always on and accessible for me to play media, located on my NAS, locally? I’m not planning to do anything with remote access at least not yet, until I get more familiar with things. So do I need to disable my internal drive from sleeping, turn off Mac locking, stop Require Password On Unlock, anything like that? Any other weird OSX settings that I should be on the lookout for?

It's been almost a week now.

Probably gonna get some biased answers being this is the Plex subreddit, but whatever.

So with a lifetime pass being on sale as we speak for $85 or something like that...is it worth it? I'm running Jellyfin right now and it's not bad, but my Google TV doesn't have an app to run it natively which is rather annoying. From what I've googled I'd have to invest in a Nvidia Shield ($150~) or a Firestick (cheaper, but I've heard these are less reliable or something?)

Are there any benefits to the Plex Pass beyond just hardware transcoding that make it attractive to what Jellyfin can't do/won't be able to do for an indeterminate amount of time? I'm not a complete anti-privacy zealot, so the whole having to authenticate through their servers isn't an immediate killer for me.

The 7.27.8 update has been published to the official channel.

NEW:

• Display “Other Editions” list on movies details with multiple editions.
• Respect Roku’s accessibility auto-play video setting.

FIXES:

• Don’t show “Browse” option for items in a grid view.
• Fix “Watch from these locations” row loading initially under other rows.
• Fix back button behavior for Activity, Find Friends and My Profile tabs.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/421

I created a Plex playlist back in October using a URL for a>!< list but now I can remember how I did it. I've tried googling & retracing my step but have gotten nowhere. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

More of an annoyance… I wanted to move my 6tb library to a new 20tb drive. Just the tv shows library takes two days …. Ain’t no time for that to be honest. I’ll use the opportunity to hand pick files I want to keep, and copy them, and just start a new library. Mostly just me using the server, and the few friends I can grant access to the new one.

What’s your experience with moving data?

I've been looking at the Acemagic S1 Mini for my first plex server, there are three options for specs: The first costs 145usd, Has 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD and a Intel Alder Lake N95 Processor The second costs 172usd, Has 16 GB Ram, 1TB SSD and a Intel Alder Lake N95. The third is the difference in cpu,cost 186usd,Has 16GB Ram,1TBSSD and a Intel Alder Lake N97. How suitible would this be for transcoding 1080p using the CPU only and using intel quicksync?

A few days ago I started up Plex on my iPhone 16 Pro Max and Alexa announced she had added plex as a skill. At that point Plex crashed, and crashes out after the splash screen to this day. I’ve tried disabling the Alexa integration, but that didn’t help, and neither did uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Any ideas?

Does anyone know when Plex does the automatic Christmas movie groups?

Kinda related - Plex needs a way to add stuff to collections from the mobile app