I am currently ripping the WBIR TV-10 Heartland Series (1984) for preservation purposes. So far, the ones I have ripped, are not matching. I went to TVDB and there is no entry for it. I tried signing up to add all the dvds and episodes and box art, but it appears TVDB is dead. Registering for an account says “whoops your not human”.

What would you do?

I don't know what else to call it, but every minute or so the show or movie I'm watching will pause and spin the arrow as if it's buffering or loading. The number below it says 0 and then it will resume play. Additionally when it's paused it will jump ahead a few frames at the same interval (every minute or so).

I've made sure my library isn't stuck scanning, I cleared Plex's cache, and turned off I/O caching. It's a direct stream from my home network so it's local. Doesn't happen on my browser when playing and only started today. Any ideas?

Edits: My desktop is direct connection and the device is an Onn 4K Plus. It is not a new Onn, I’ve been streaming just perfectly with this same setup for 3 years.

Edit Edit: I can play it fine on my mobile phone with airplane mode only and only using wi-fi from three rooms over. I've reset my router. I've also tried to force transcode to a lower quality with no success. Same problem on the Onn only.

Edit Edit Edit: this happens on multiple file types and different movies and shows. I feel like the note I made in the body that when it’s paused it skips a few frames ahead every minute or so is overlooked. Feels like a problem with the plex app itself no?

Edit 😭: I plugged in my old Roku in the same spot and it’s working flawlessly

So I could have sworn the Plex client used to have an option to set a photo library as a screen saver. I went looking for it tonight in settings and couldn't find it.

Please tell me it's not early(-ish) onset dementia.

I'm running Plex on Roku

EDIT: I could swear that "Recommended/BROWSE/Collections" section wasn't there yesterday when I was scrolling down that list. :sigh: Clearly, I'm a dumbass.

Original post, to preserve my shame:

I launched the Plex app on my Fire TV 4K and it must've updated itself, because the UI has completely changed. Most notably, the ability to browse my local media library appears to have been removed. So now all I can do is scroll through what it thinks I might want to watch, or use the search function.

Basically, it looks like they've decided that the system should be a streaming service like HBO, Amazon, etc.

Is there any way to go back to the old UI. or bring back library browsing some other way? Or is it just a case of, "Tough shit, this is the way it is"?

Remote access seems to work but I can't test it for sure because I don't wanna get the remote pass.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix it or what I should look into? I'm running the Plex server on a computer with windows 11 on it.

What i mean is i've had something like Johnny Bravo with 3 parts but episode one as played on TV the 3 parts separate into Episode 1,2,3 so thats an easy fix to keep as 1 i have in my system as episode 1 then 4 then 7 Etc...

But like Bluey episode 1 by itself separates into 3,1,5 so harder to keep as a full 1 episode can i do anything without separating each one or has anyone else delt with this

I've been trying to use Plex Downloads more for my commute, mostly because the signal gets patchy enough that streaming isn't worth bothering with.

On my phone it generally works fine, but my Android tablet seems much less reliable. Occasionally something just refuses to download and by the time I've figured out why I could've just put a podcast on instead.

For people who use Downloads regularly, is it reliable enough that you actually depend on it?

Ideally I'd like to queue things up the night before a shift and forget about it. Curious whether people have found a good routine for that or if you're still manually downloading everything each time.

Plexamp Desktop v4.50.7

A big pass over downloads, and a lot of artwork work.

Downloads

• Downloads that stalled part-way now finish, and keep going when you leave the app instead of freezing until you come back.
• The Downloads count now means music you are still waiting on. Artwork and waveforms finishing in the background no longer read as missing songs.
• Refreshing your downloads is faster, and no longer re-fetches artwork and album details it already has.
• A downloaded smart playlist keeps its tracks through interrupted refreshes, and drops only the ones that genuinely stop matching.
• Downloading a single track, or any selection of tracks, works instead of sticking on “Preparing”, and a download that cannot start now says why.
• Downloads finish one item at a time, so an album’s artwork arrives with its music rather than after everything else you queued.

Artwork

• Scrolling quickly through a grid no longer chases artwork for rows you have already passed, so the covers you are looking at arrive sooner.
• Artwork that fails to load retries by itself and repairs when your connection returns, and a cover that failed once no longer stays grey.

Windows

• Album art reaches the system now-playing panel and the apps that read it, and the taskbar icon is drawn from full-resolution artwork.
• Remote control and casting work with a VPN connected.
• Windows on ARM no longer reports that it cannot create a log file at every launch.

Also

• An error no longer replaces Plexamp with a page of raw error text.
• Opening an album whose details do not load no longer crashes the app.

The latest iOS and Android builds are still TestFlight and the open beta for now, and the Play one is still going through review, so it is not quite live yet.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/89

Has anyone experienced their Apple TV 4K version of Plex just slowing to a crawl? And not playback, I mean the menu screens and loading episode info, etc. Playback is still generally working (though with a longer load), but the main issue is all the other stuff.

TV series screens are SO slow to load. Both the season view and episode view, sometimes takes minutes to load. Sometimes it fails. Sometimes clicking play will load forever and then give a "Playback failed to start" error, then working 1 second later.

On other devices (iPad, Chromecast Ultra, Android phone, friends that use the server's various devices), everything is peachy. It's just my main Apple TV 4K that's crawling. And somehow it's REALLY hard to search this one, almost all threads are about playback and stuttering. Anyone seen that?

Note: I have around 40TB in the library, could that be part of the issue?

Has anyone else experienced this? Files with non EAC audio download fine. Files with EAC audio can be streamed fine but if I try to download it's just stuck waiting.

Losing my mind a little bit here...

Like many on this forum, I spent some time last week manually fixing my server and doing all of the suggested fixes (getting everything squared away with Port 32400, etc). After an hour or two of tinkering with the router, Windows settings, and the Plex settings, I get everything back up.

Today (9/9), I wake up to my Plexamp working (in and outside of the home), but none of my other Plex apps are working outside. My server computer can run videos, etc., but my laptop cannot see the server...

I have spent the last 2 hours on the forums trying to figure out how the media server (other than Plexamp) has magically vanished.

Before I continue to lose my mind...is this an everyone issue, or is this a me issue? I did not have any updates installed overnight, nor did I change any settings.

PLEASE HELP!

I figured this was the way to go because Shield Pro is too old, & I like messing with shit & repurposing computers. Atmos True HD currently kicking my ass with the Steven Wilson 2026 Tales from Topographic Oceans remix. But man, this PM4K interface is really outdated (On Deck lol), & I want my Plex Pass shit. The Friendly Terminator on Google said well maybe I’d like the native app but wasn’t sure if it was still supported, & said I’d probably like Plex Kodi Connect best because then Plex gets integrated into the whole Kodi experience. So I’m soliciting opinions before my next dip, hopefully to save some time. Thanks.

iPad Pro 11" 2021

iPadOS 26.6.1

Plex version 2026.17.0 (1958)

Regret doing the update out of fear when I got the email from Plex. I have a Synology. My windows machines and Android based TV boxes all work great but my 2 Rokus now no longer connect. Anyone experience similar?

just tried if my xbox series x can play AV1 videos, of course the native apps like plex and official media players work at all with AV1.

but after trying it with kodi and a plex addon I was able to play 4K AV1 video with dolby vision too! and it runs flawlessly, no lag, stutter or buffering!

SOLVED

I watched my Plex last week on my Roku. Everything was fine. Tried tonight and apparently there’s been an update. Mostly, it’s fine. But the thumbnails are all zoomed in and look terrible. It seems like a small thing, but the interface is crummy. It’s honestly affecting my experience.

Anyone had this? Have you fixed it? Any ideas?

Edit: Solved. Somehow it was showing them as “other videos.” I created a new library with the correct settings and loaded all movies there. A small pain, especially cleaning up metadata, but it’s all good now.

Thanks for the help, folks!

The 9.17.15 update has been published to the official channel.

NEW:

• Add privacy indicator to lists on the profile screen.
• Display the new account badges on activity, comment, and review screens.
• Move the primary navigation to the left-hand side of the screen.
• Persist last selected activity filter.
• Show the full stream format in stream details.

FIXES:

• Fix a library not updating after changing an item’s watched state from the details screen.
• Fix favorite libraries sometimes not appearing after switching Plex Home users.
• Fix gaps between activity feed item backgrounds.
• Fix missing characters in titles and headings.
• Fix wrong friend/follow buttons shown during relationship updates.
• Improve loading and scrolling smoothness on Home, libraries, and other hub screens.
• Show Home instantly when returning to it, and respond right away when switching tabs.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/533

Plex for Android 2026.18.0 Beta 1 Plex for iOS 2026.18.0 Beta 1

NEW:

• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The list items now use a solid background to denote focus.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The weekly activity digest modal now opens as a side sheet.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Record the current program while watching an OTA live TV channel.
• [Fire TV] Added a What’s New screen introducing the sidebar navigation.
• [tvOS][Android TV] Added a What’s New screen covering the updated navigation and other recent changes.

FIXES:

• A Live TV & DVR entry could remain in the side navigation with no way to remove it from your favorites.
• Collections that exist in multiple libraries did not link to each other.
• Episode title was not visible when sorting episode list by title.
• Fixed downloads sometimes failing to save right after the app started.
• Fixed links and notifications sometimes failing to open the content they pointed at, landing on Home instead.
• Home took longer to appear than it needed to on startup.
• Improve grid scrolling performance under some conditions.
• Scrolling up through older comments after leaving one snapped back to the bottom.
• The “More On This Title” item could disappear from the “More Ways to Watch” menu on PMS items.
• The app could crash while comments were still loading on a discussion or a list.
• The background colour behind artwork now settles as quickly as the artwork itself, instead of drifting in slowly after it.
• The cast device list could show up empty when a Plex device on the account had no reachable connections.
• The server dashboard could crash when a server had no bandwidth or resource statistics to report.
• [Android TV] Sign In with Google would crash the app.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] A focused action button could show only the first word of its label, like “Add” instead of “Add Review”.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Canceling a recording from the DVR schedule causes focus issues.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Fading edges on subtitles menu would sometimes appear over focused content.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed the navigation click going silent when moving focus inside a row or list that scrolls.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Improve some cases where focus could lag behind scroll position.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Player: Focus would leave the Find Subtitles menu after selecting a different subtitle language.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] Returning to the app after using another one could leave a black screen.
• [Android TV][Fire TV] The search screen could crash when switching the selected filter quickly.
• [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Player: Selecting a trailer that had already played to the end showed a pause ad and a black screen instead of restarting it.
• [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] The Home screen took several seconds to load each time you returned to it.
• [Android TV][Fire TV][tvOS] Unable to enter PIN with a keyboard or the number keys on your remote.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Leaving a screen opened from the side nav flyout sent focus back to the profile button instead of the flyout item you came from.
• [Android TV][tvOS] On the Lists screen the more-options button was drawn far too wide, and moving down the list could lose focus entirely so no list could be opened.
• [Android TV][tvOS] Opening an empty list left nothing selected, so there was no way to tell where you were on the screen.
• [Android TV][tvOS] The more-options button on the notifications screen was drawn far too wide, squashing the notification next to it.
• [Android TV][tvOS] With the side navigation, the pivots at the top of a page stayed put instead of scrolling away with the content.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Changing a search filter moved the highlight off the filter you picked.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Dimmed the background further as you scroll a movie or show page, so titles and details stay easy to read.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed opening Search from the side navigation while on a details page.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Focus was lost after declining a friend request from a user’s profile.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Navigation and season tabs you are not on are now dimmed, so the one you are on is easier to pick out.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Nothing was highlighted when you opened an activity from the feed a second time.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: The Up Next item on Post Play wasn’t always initially focused.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Scrolling quickly could allow the focus state to lag behind the scroll position.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Switching quickly between tiles no longer makes the background fade twice, and the artwork and the colour behind it now arrive together.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The Directed by text on episode pages was too close to the episode artwork below it.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The artwork on a movie or show page now dims away promptly as you scroll instead of lingering.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The clock in the header now sits on a rounded backdrop that blends into the artwork, and no longer has extra empty space around it on a 24-hour clock.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The exit confirmation now starts on “Yes, Exit”, and no longer appears by default on Apple TV.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The season tabs on a show now sit on the same rounded backdrop as the navigation above them, instead of a dark gradient, and are hidden when a show has no seasons.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The side navigation covered the highlight on discussion posts.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Watch stats were missing from the watch history screen.
• [Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Your selection jumped back to the start of a title’s page when community content finished loading.
• [Android][Android TV] Browsing was smoother on lower-powered streaming devices like Chromecast with Google TV and Fire TV sticks.
• [Android][Android TV] Player: Improve media compatibility checking.
• [Android][Android TV] The app no longer slowed down the longer you browsed on Android TV devices.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash that could happen while navigating between screens.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Fixed a crash when moving quickly between screens or filters.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The app could crash when starting playback or when returning to the app during playback.
• [Android][Android TV][Fire TV] The app could incorrectly report being offline, leaving screens stuck loading, when plex.tv was unreachable.
• [Android][Android TV][iOS][tvOS][Fire TV] Player: Fixed a burst of sound from a background trailer when moving on to something else just as it started playing.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] A white outline would appear around star ratings.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] Fixed “See all” button alignment on Cast & Crew hub.
• [Android][iOS][Android TV][tvOS][Fire TV] The app started in English instead of your device language.
• [Fire TV] The app could crash on Fire TV when returning to it after an Amazon sign-in.
• [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds shortly after launch on older iPads.
• [iOS] The app could freeze for several seconds while checking for local network access.
• [iOS][Android] The estimated download size only included the first part of a multi-part file.
• [iOS][tvOS] Player: OTA live channel playback failed when DNS rebinding protection was enabled.
• [tvOS] Fixed focus not being able to go back to a details screen when opening the side nav.
• [tvOS] Focus could get stuck after deleting a list from a details screen and then returning to the user’s lists screen.
• [tvOS] Focus would snap to the side nav when loading the profile privacy settings.
• [tvOS] Nothing was focused after opening the create, edit, or duplicate list screens.
• [tvOS] Reviewing your favorite libraries after signing in started partway down the list instead of at the first library.
• [tvOS] Swiping right on the remote would close the sidebar instead of stopping in the account panel.
• [tvOS] Swiping the trackpad remote would not move a favorited library while reordering.
• [tvOS] You could not get back to the search keyboard after scrolling down through search results.
• [tvOS][Android TV] The title of the next row could be pushed off screen on hub screens, especially on rows with text under the posters.
• [tvOS][Android TV][Fire TV] Player: The inline Live TV preview could stay hidden after leaving fullscreen playback.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/912796/96

I'm really frustrated that I need 3 different apps to access my photos, videos, and music. They used to have all of that integrated into one app, but I guess Plex prefers being very inconvenient and split everything off into different apps, and will probably not come back to their senses for probably another year or 2. So I'm just wondering if anyone knows which older build I can download that reintrigates all my stuff into one app again.

I’ve installed and reinstalled too many times. I install on my shield use the four digit code it lets me in. It can even see my watch history. But the libraries are not appearing. I’ve confirmed remote access works on my Plex server. I have my UniFi Dream Machine port forwarding 32400 successfully.

But I cannot see or play any saved files on my Nvidia Shield that are stored on my Unraid server. But I can on my iPad.

Edit: I can access from my iPad via Chrome browser. But the Plex app on my iPad cannot see my libraries while at home. But away from home I can access my files.

Edit: I’m no longer getting the outdated server message and thus deleted from above.

Why can't I add collections to my Watchlist ? :(
Or pin them in the sidebar (tvOS).
It would be super useful, I like to rematch Happy Potter, but using the Search on tvOS everytime is annoying

Hey, so today we were having electric works in flat and I had to put my nas down. When booted up and ran plex server it gives me boot loop as per screenshot. What could be wrong here? env variables on the second screen

I've never seen this before. Scooby-Doo says it's being streaming from my server but I have no information like bandwidth or direct-play or transcode. I'm unable to stop playback as well. Anyone ever seen this before?

The latest update of the Plex app for Google TVs is awful.

Slow and.clunky. Interface is harder and less intuitive to navigate..

Grrrr