Comments on: Release: Plex/Seven 0.7.0

By: luke

luke — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:12:29 +0000

is cool

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:12:14 +0000

Great work guys.

Finally AC3 / DTS works on my Sony equipment, and everything else is working fine with a few crashes. Eye-TV external support is very appreciated, I just hope in the future that we can get a better native support, so Eye-TV can run flawless in the background and record TV when enjoying the wonderful features of PLEX

By: michael

michael — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:45:45 +0000

Nice to see a new release, still I’ll stay with the 5.22 for the time being. I get a distorted sound on everything I listen too

By: elan

elan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:38:58 +0000

@Gumbyx84: You’re not bugging us at all! There’s no separate DMG for now, but you can easily pull it out of a Plex/Seven release, from Plex.app/Contents/Resources/Plex/PlexMediaServer. It’s just a command line application you can run anywhere (except for the fact that I’m an idiot and the 0.7.0 release wasn’t a true Universal Binary )

By: Gumbyx84

Gumbyx84 — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:35:33 +0000

I hate to bug you guys, but where is the Plex Media Server dmg? You guys said it would be available as a separate download, but I don’t see it anywhere. I ask because I might be trying to set up a remote iTunes library sometime in the near future and would like to use it on an old PowerBook. Thanks ahead of time for the info.

By: windy

windy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:11:45 +0000

Consider building off/mimicking some of the following features. It is not necessarily bad to be a copycat. Evil empire M$ does it all the time. Apple does it on occasion. All consumer products steal from one another. If they provide the best features of the competitor’s product along with the best of their own product, they attract more customers.

http://gizmodo.com/5095414/10-really-cool-windows-7-media-center-features

By: elan

elan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:52:43 +0000

@breakfingah: Good idea, please file a feature request on Lighthouse

@Koxman: Crackling sound at start of tracks is a known issue.

@faibistes: I’m really sorry you’re having so much trouble. We tried to make it clear that this release was known to be a step backwards in terms of stability and we recommended backing up your Application Support/Plex folder. The first bug has been fixed already, and I’ll look at the last one shortly. Ryan is working on the middle one at the moment as well.

By: theTraveler

theTraveler — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:31:28 +0000

What a great an innovative release!
Plex team is truly amazing.
You make Front Row look like an entry level product.
But watch out you may get hired by Stevie

I Feel a donation coming on!

Now the only thing I dare to dream of is true EyeTV integration!

By: faibistes

faibistes — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:15:37 +0000

Boys, worst release EVER!

I have used it for a couple of hours and discovered three showstopper bugs:

- Some videos (which admittedly were crappily encoded in the first place) that used to play fine in Plex 5, now play at some 2x speed (audio too). I must admit that it’s kind of funny watching The Simpsons as if they had been sniffing helium, but come on! After stopping the video, Plex crashes.
- Crash when going back to TV Shows main menu, if I enable Theme Music
- If I browse my iTunes music by genre, artist…, Plex shows the tracks but won’t play the music. And if I browse it by track, it will show the tracks but may a) not play it or b) play the wrong track (WTF?).

I’ll file those bugs as soon as I get back home. The last one is incredibly weird and hard to explain.

I learned my lesson. Next time I will backup my previous settings. Scraping everything again to pull back to 5 is a PITA.

BTW, wishlist: preamp for videos.

By: Koxman

Koxman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:31:49 +0000

Hi,
I tried out the new iTunes Library integration (with server). I really like the feature, but I recognise a cracking noise between two songs (I’m not sure if its on the end or beginning of a song). I’ve integrated all album covers into my mp3 so it might be that there are some problems with the meta information beeing played.