#Plexamp settings install
#Plexamp settings software
#Plexamp settings series
#Plexamp settings windows

#Plexamp settings software

You are paying (and pay for the app on whatever device you don't control) for a cloud service that can reach through your firewall and access all your media via their unaudited server software you install, while it is you that is providing the bandwidth of getting media to your device.

#Plexamp settings install

The only reason I would ever install Plex is if you must use a walled-garden device that can't use standard file shares nor DLNA (Echo, Roku, Sonos., you know, the kind that monetize your media usage and anything they can scrape out of your mobile device, and serve up unskippable ads in media and in the UI). And one last small glitch is sometimes Plex doesn't bring up subtitles that I've downloaded.īut, overall, I've been very pleased with Plex.Īs far as I know, it's taking the data right off of the files that you've asked it to 'watch'.

#Plexamp settings windows

This might be due to some unfamiliarity on my part with networks and Windows and sharing folders, etc., so don't go by me on this point. This caused all kinds of problems to the point where we had to delete his server and rebuild it. Another weird glitch that I've come across is I've tried to share servers with another Plex user on my network, so that when he brings up his Plex server you can also switch, via a dropdown, to another server.

#Plexamp settings series

If you don't tag a series episode properly Plex won't 'see' it. The downside that I've found is, it seems like Plex is very sensitive to tagging conventions.

It automatically sorts by season (if you've tagged things correctly), and usually puts up the correct card for any series you've put there. I love that you can create libraries to use as sort of short cuts to series (I have 'libraries' for things like Better Call Saul, MASH, etc.). On tablet devices the cards form a grid, so you can-as we cheekily suggested in the App Store description which somehow Apple didn’t notice-duct tape your iPad to the wall in landscape mode.I've been using Plex for years with video exclusively and I've had few problems.

It was clear to us that the primary user task was to answer “what’s my server doing?” so we built a data-rich screen to show all the plays as beautiful cards (using Plexamp’s UltraBlur for backgrounds and seekprints for audio). A wave of the hand turns on the wall of monitors you lean back, put your BatBoots up, and watch your Plex Media Server hard at work. You pull into your Batcave in your (modified, clearly) CyberBatTruck, leap out (cape trailing) and settle into your (unmodified) Herman Miller chair. After a few months of work, we’re finally ready to share the results with you! Command Center The goals for Plex Dash were similar to those for Plexamp-building a fun user-focused application which could also serve as a platform for exploring new functionality and interactions. It also seemed like a great case for a separate app, as opposed to trying to cram the functionality inside our existing (consumption-focused) apps. At the same time, a lot has changed in the last half-decade, and an increasing number of people want-nay, demand-first class functionality on mobile devices.Īfter rewriting Plexamp to run on iOS and Android, we thought we had a great opportunity to explore building a mobile app for media server owners, without incurring a platform multiplier and also reusing lots of components from Plexamp.

Just over a year ago, we also added a powerful dashboard to provide monitoring capabilities. Since its inception, the best place for administering and curating your Plex Media Server has always been our awesome web app.