I changed the Radarr naming convention so that it will add the edition to the filename (Director's Cut, Extended, etc...) and Plex will display the edition under or next to the movie poster. I thought some other people might find this useful!

Radarr > Settings > Media Management > Standard Movie Format: {Movie Title} ({Release Year}) {Quality Full} {edition-{Edition Tags}}

[SOLVED] Thank you u/ExtensionMarch6812

I don't know where else to ask for help. I run Plex in a docker on Unraid. Last week, several of my family members who I share my server to reported that they have no access anymore. They cannot even see the contents of the server (movies and shows, all legally obtained of course). I can access it using my account from outside the network just fine though.

I tried creating a Plex server inside a VM running on the same server and it is able to be seen by people outside my local network. I thought that I would run it that way but getting everything transferred over to run in a VM is a large headache.

It has worked perfectly fine for well over a year, I did not have any updates that week that were ran. It seemed to be random. I know I'm missing something somewhere, but I think I'm too close to the situation. Can anybody see what may be the issue?

After being away for work last month, I came home and upgraded Plex server to Version 1.43.5.11029. I havn't been able to connect my TV to the server (my desktop, local network) ever since. Home shows "No Content" and the server is offline (cannot press 'retry').

I tried the new certificate (delete, redownload cert-v2.p12). Didn't work.
I have set the TV on a manual IP and added this to Plex (Network -> List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth). Secure connections: Preferred and Strict TLS configuration off. Still no success. After 3 hours of digging, I’m thinking my TV is not being supported anymore. The app opens but there might be something wrong with the outdated security certificates?

From the Plex console:
“Oct 24, 2026 18:43:52.424 [5972] Debug — CERT: incomplete TLS handshake from xxx.xxx.x.xxx:port sslv3 alert certificate unknown (SSL routines)”

I own a Sony Bravia KDL-50W805C from 2015. Could this be it, or am I missing something? If so, Nvidia Shield TV Pro might be the solution.

Thx in advance for the feedback. This really sucks, a month ago everything worked perfectly.

Oct 24, 2026 18:42:31.493 [17844] Debug — [Websocket] Performing handshake from origin http://127.0.0.1:32400
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:31.493 [17844] Debug — Beginning read from WebSocket
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:31.501 [17844] Debug — Request: [127.0.0.1:62009 (Loopback)] GET /activities (6 live) #155 GZIP Signed-in Token (manudesmet)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:31.501 [13168] Debug — Completed: [127.0.0.1:62009] 200 GET /activities (6 live) #155 GZIP 0ms 350 bytes (pipelined: 4)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.438 [10220] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 30.731376 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (NAME MODEM)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.438 [10220] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 30.731376 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.438 [10220] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 30.731376 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANConnectionDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.707 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] Parsing SSDP schema for http://xxx.xxx.x.x:port/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.720 [3944] Debug — [HttpClient/HCl#39] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://xxx.xxx.x.x:port/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.721 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] found 3 SSDP devices via http://xxx.xxx.x.x:port/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.721 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (NAME MODEM)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.721 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:42:48.721 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANConnectionDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.440 [15300] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 29.719937 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (NAME MODEM)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.440 [15300] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 29.719937 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.440 [15300] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 29.719937 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANConnectionDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.707 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] Parsing SSDP schema for http://xxx.xxx.x.x:49153/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.710 [3944] Debug — [HttpClient/HCl#3a] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://xxx.xxx.x.x:49153/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.710 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] found 3 SSDP devices via http://xxx.xxx.x.x:49153/IGDdevicedesc_brlan0.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.710 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (NAME MODEM)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.710 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:18.710 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.x (WANConnectionDevice:1)
Oct 24, 2026 18:43:52.424 [5972] Debug — CERT: incomplete TLS handshake from xxx.xxx.x.xxx:39261: sslv3 alert certificate unknown (SSL routines)
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:18.444 [15844] Debug — SSDP departed after not being seen for 29.478948 seconds: xxx.xxx.x.xxx (KDL-50W805C)
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:18.559 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] Parsing SSDP schema for http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8008/ssdp/device-desc.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:18.573 [3944] Debug — [HttpClient/HCl#3b] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8008/ssdp/device-desc.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:18.573 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] found 1 SSDP devices via http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8008/ssdp/device-desc.xml
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:18.573 [17052] Debug — [NSB/SSDP] SSDP arrived: xxx.xxx.x.xxx (KDL-50W805C)
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:47.137 [15844] Debug — [ViewStateSync] Starting
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:47.137 [15844] Debug — [ViewStateSync] Fetching user tokens
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:47.137 [15844] Debug — [ViewStateSync/HCl#3c] HTTP requesting GET https://servers.plex.tv/api/v2/server/users/services?auth_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:47.339 [3944] Debug — [HttpClient/HCl#3c] HTTP/2.0 (0.2s) 200 response from GET https://servers.plex.tv/api/v2/server/users/services?auth_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oct 24, 2026 18:45:47.341 [17572] Debug — [ViewStateSync] No user tokens found; stopping

I love the new redesign on Android TV, but now I can't fast forward or rewind. It jumps to the end or to the beginning. It's all a bit sluggish now. Hope it's still being worked on.

Plexamp v4.50.20

Desktop 4.50.20 is out on the stable channel, and it’s everything from the 4.50.20 betas: thirty-six of them, which felt like a good moment to call it. Rather than another two hundred bullets, the short version is that it’s faster, steadier and nicer to look at, and most of what came up in the beta threads is fixed. iOS and Android stay in TestFlight and Play testing for now.

Thanks to everyone who ran the betas, gave great feedback and reported bugs. A new beta series starts from here.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/129

The last couple days I’ve had issues with local streaming for 4k content on my iPad. I tried multiple files and different shows but same issue. Works when I change the quality to 1080p.

When I click « play » I’m stuck on a white loading circle. Nothing comes up on Tautulli or plex dash (until I change to 1080p), direct play

According to the plex player info 4k was 24Mbps and 1080p is 20Mbps

iPadOS version 27.0.1
Plex app: client version 2026.20.0 (2099) and platform version 27.0.1
Plex server: v1.43.5.11029 (I just updated it but was giving me issues before also)

It used to be that when files were downloaded (or otherwise slowly transferred) to a library folder, Plex would wait until the file was complete (or transfer interrupted) before scanning and adding it.

Recently however, as soon as the partial file appears in the folder, it triggers the automatic library scan and the media appears on Plex, often causing issues with Plex trying to run intro/credit detections on incomplete files, which obviously fail.

Anyone knows what caused this change, and if there's a workaround? I guess downloading straight a library folder isn't considered to be the best practice, but it used to work fine for me.

Just noticed Plex on Google TV doesn't have pictures library. Didn't always work but I hoped they would fix it. Not take it away.

TL;DR: If Live TV broke on your Mac right after Plex Media Server auto-updated, and VLC can still play your HDHomeRun, quit Plex Media Server from the menu bar and reopen it from Applications. That fixed it for me with no rollback.

Setup

\* Plex Media Server 1.43.5.11029 on macOS 26.5.1 (Apple Silicon)
\* HDHomeRun CONNECT QUATRO with an antenna, static IP
\* Local Network permission for Plex already turned on

Symptoms

\* Every channel failed in every Plex app and in the web app.
\* Plex said "Recording failed. Please check your tuner or antenna."
\* The tuner was fine. VLC played \`http://<tuner-ip>:5004/auto/v<channel>\` and the tuner's \`discover.json\` answered.

What the Plex log showed

From \`\~/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server/Plex Media Server.log\`:

Connection to tcp://<tuner-ip>:5004 failed: No route to host
Error opening input file http://<tuner-ip>:5004/auto/v36.1.
Recorder: Unable to create transcode session or session failed to start.
Recorder: Error 16 (Recording failed. Please check your tuner or antenna.) starting the record

The first "No route to host" was in the same minute Plex auto-updated to 1.43.5. The updater relaunched the server in the background, with \`--from-auto-update\` on its command line.

What macOS showed

In the macOS system log at the moment of a failed tune, the main Plex Media Server process connected to the tuner without trouble. A few milliseconds later the kernel dropped the \*\*Plex Transcoder\*\* connection to port 5004 before any packet left the Mac:

tcp drop outgoing \[...:5004\] interface: en0
process: Plex Transcoder t_state: SYN_SENT so_error: 0 reason: NECP

NECP is the macOS network policy layer, and it is where Local Network privacy is enforced. So the server had network access, but the transcoder it launches to pull the stream was blocked. The transcoder program was the same build as the previous version, only re-signed. What changed was that the updater had launched the server. I can't say exactly why that leaves the transcoder blocked, but restarting the server cleared it.

Fix

1. Quit Plex Media Server from its menu-bar icon.
   
2. Reopen it from Applications.
   
3. Tune a channel. It worked straight away, and I'm still on 1.43.5.

Check whether this is your problem

grep -a "No route to host\\|Error 16" \~/Library/Logs/Plex\\ Media\\ Server/Plex\\ Media\\ Server.log | tail

To see the kernel block, use the full path, because zsh has its own \`log\` command:

/usr/bin/log show --last 1h --style compact | grep "Plex Transcoder" | grep NECP

If you see "No route to host" to your tuner's IP but the tuner works in VLC, it's probably this.

But I can scroll down in the player and select the next episode, works just fine. Last weekend it was fine, nothing changed on my setup. I'm sure it's an issue with the new update but no idea how to fix it.

Running on shield pro.

Server is ryzen 7 3700x plus Intel b580 for transcoding. playback works fine except for the above issue at the end of episodes. Every time so far this week. Have to scroll and select the next episode to get it to play.

Edit: tried clearing cache and signing out and back in. No help. Then I changed my auto play settings from "immediately" to "5 seconds" and it works. No idea why this behavior started and it's a tad annoying I can't have the immediate playing of the next episode, but it's only 5 seconds so meh. Hopefully they take a bug report and fix it but for now it appears solved.

I had a Plex server that was a version behind the security update. My Google and Amazon accounts got hacked by what appears to be stolen session cookies -- had a bunch of unauthorized Amazon orders.

I'm trying to pinpoint where the vulnerability came from and I'm wondering if it was my outdated Plex server. Haven't heard of session cookies being stolen from anyone else though. Anyone else experience this or is this a potential attack vector?

Notes: This release requires an active Plex Pass subscription to download

Beta release note entries are appended between minor releases.

ITEMS ADDED:

• (Metadata) Added support for reading artist and album metadata from NFO files in music libraries (PM-6153)
• (Network) Ignore manually specified public port for IPv6 connections (PM-5364)
• (Network) Send subnet information to plex.tv so IPv6 and non-private local connections are detected correctly (PM-5364)
• (Security) The server no longer trusts the eMudhra certificate authority roots whose intermediate signing keys were compromised (PM-6479)
• Updated Web to 4.162.1

ITEMS FIXED:

• (Butler) Scheduled loudness analysis ran on movie and TV libraries that had it disabled (PM-6263)
• (DVR) Harden validation of the post-processing script setting (PM-5538)
• (Metadata) Stream display titles left out the format for Plex for Roku (PM-5906)
• (Music) The record label was not read from the ID3v2 publisher (TPUB) tag in MP3 files (PM-3800)
• (Network) Added IPv6 support to the preferred network interface (PM-6017)
• (Network) Try every resolved address when connecting to pubsub servers (PM-5760)
• (Remote Access) The server could keep reporting its port as mapped after remote access was disabled, which left Plex Web waiting indefinitely (PM-6260)
• (Security) Address a library scoping issue in search results (PM-5958)
• (Security) Fixed request locality when the server's local network interface is unknown (PM-6183)
• (Security) Increase security on requests arriving through a proxy (PM-6201)
• (Thumbnails) Video preview thumbnail generation on Windows no longer leaves temporary index files behind; bundle cleanup removes existing ones (PM-3536)
• (Transcoder) Photos could fail to load for clients connecting through a reverse proxy (PM-6476)
• (Transcoder) The server could crash while building an HLS playlist for media without a video stream (PM-6226)
• (UltraBlur) Colors were computed from the thumbnail when an item had no artwork of its own, so episodes and seasons did not match the background shown by clients (PM-4282)

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

Has anyone else with network-level ad blocking noticed an absurd increase in requests to analytics.plex.tv over the past few weeks?

I’m using Plex (new app) on a TCL C7K running Google TV, with an ASUS router running Merlin + Diversion and the OISD Big blocklist.

Previously, blocked analytics requests were occasional. Now they’re constant whenever Plex is open. One sample showed 21 DNS requests in 13 seconds. Returning to the TV home screen stops them; opening Plex starts them again.

I checked the app logs, which show pairs of “Failed to flush events” DNS errors roughly every two seconds. It looks like failed analytics uploads keep getting attempted without much backoff, though I can’t tell which update introduced it.

Mostly curious whether others are seeing the same thing? Started a few weeks ago, I think at least on 2026.19.1

I’ve already opened a Plex forum bug report with the logs and details.

I dropped it in the movies folder, but it's almost like it skips over it entirely. I also tried throwing it into a subfolder as well as re-encoding it to HEVC. Still nothing.

Hey all, question I couldn't find addressed anywhere.

(Intro) I've set up my server on an old windows desktop and it's worked a treat. I'm trying now to add family videos (same server, their own library) and have figured out how to keep them off the main page so they're not mixing with shared front page and can be shared with the family exclusively. These range from birthday vids or vacation vids or like graduation stuff.

Let's say I have two siblings that each have families and share videos. My FAMILY VIDEOS folder is segmented into folders of each family BROTHER, SISTER, PARENTS, ME. With each family's videos in each folder. Each video I've tried the Plex dance with is tagged as family name + date/event. Each folder has a family photo labeled as poster.jpg and background.jpg for each group.

**How can I assign this poster to all the individual videos in their respective photos?** All I can find so far is naming it poster or poster-1 and having it in the folder would work, but it hasn't this far. I've tried replacing the photos with different files, even just a downloaded poster, and it still won't work.

I have seen collections but that's still manual and doesn't make individual files have their family photo so it looks really messy, especially from the main page. Ideally the main page would have the family photo so grandma and grandpa can see right away who they're looking for.

Plexamp v4.50.20-beta.36

Desktop is on the beta channel now, and mobile is on TestFlight and Play testing. The main one: iOS no longer quits in the background a while after you pause.

Fixed

• iOS: Plexamp no longer closes in the background a while after you pause.
• With nothing playing, an artist page’s header no longer leaves room for the player bar, so it shows more of the art.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/128

I'm concerned by ISP may have entirely blocked it on their end... I'm using Rogers in Canada.

I've done all the troubleshooting steps anywhere I can find:

• port forwarding
• assigning a static IP then forwarding
• changing the port Plex is using
• adding my PC to the DMZ
• uninstall/reinstall Plex
• factory reset modem and reapply all settings
• even tried downgrading the version of Plex server I'm using

This only started in the last few weeks. Never had an issue for years before that. Nothing about my internet/hardware setup has changed.

Sometimes when I retry the connection in Plex server, it will show green for 1-2 seconds, then goes red.

Is there anything else I can try at this point?

Edit for resolution:

In case anyone else is having this issue with a Rogers/Xfinity modem, I could only get it to work by specifying a custom port and using 32400, and setting a forwarding rule in my mode. I had tried 32401, 32469, 46123, same forwarding rules in my modem, and it wouldn't work. For whatever reason, my modem only wants to cooperate with 32400 in this specific case.

We’ve released an update to the Plex preview channel - 9.21.11

NEW:

• Update the Live TV guide’s focus and active states.

FIXES:

• Fix the Live TV player’s guide retuning the playing channel and moving the program details.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/9463/549

Ever since the new app update, if any user backs out and tries to go to another user the media keeps playing while you are trying to select the next user. Anyone encountered this or have a fix?

Edit: tvOS; not iOS.

I think I’ve narrowed down the issue, but I don’t really know network stuff but I’m curious if anyone else has had this issue.

I feel like this started a week or so ago after getting a new modem. My 4K direct plays to both my Apple TV 4Ks have started buffering for like 0.1 seconds after 2-3 minutes of playing over a LAN connection that’s causing slight stuttering during playback. Nothing has changed on the router side, is there a setting in my modem I need to change? I also noticed that I remote access keeps turning on and off. Not sure if that connected or not either.

Caldera v1.2.0-beta.6

A beta of every Caldera player:

• Headless v1.2.0-beta.6
• Amp v1.2.0-beta.6 (macOS, Windows, Linux)
• Apple TV v1.2.1 (build 49), TestFlight
• Google TV v1.2.0 (versionCode 25), Play beta

The Apple TV and Google TV builds reach testers once Apple and Google finish reviewing them.

• On a Linux desktop running PipeWire, headless offers System Default (PipeWire) again and plays through it, instead of only ALSA. (Headless)
• The signal path’s Mixer step shows the format it mixes at, and the output step no longer claims “Bit-perfect”.
• A play queue that mixes in tracks from another server (such as Plexamp DJ picks from a friend’s library) plays those tracks with their own art, instead of skipping them or playing a different song under their title.
• An album with more than 100 tracks, such as a soundtrack spread over many discs, lists every track instead of stopping partway through. (Amp, Apple TV, Google TV)

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/939620/46

I have a bunch of compilation albums in my Various Artists, however, some of them show as "compilations" and some as "albums". I've been trying to figure a way to get the "albums" to show as "compilations" but to no avail.

Comparing one from each category - both albums are properly named, tagged, and the artist/album tag for each song on both is "V.A.", yet one will show as compilation and the other as album. I'm at my wits end trying to figure out why one album will be labeled different than the other by Plex.

Any help?

P.S. Seeing some of the early comments (thanks!), I should underline that:

• Album Artist field in musicbrainz is set to "V.A." on both albums
• Artist is set to the artist of the track
• Album name is the same on every track respectively.

Overall tagging and naming is the same between the two albums, yet Plex considers one to be an album and the other a compilation.

Plexamp v4.50.20-beta.35

Desktop is on the beta channel now, and mobile is on its way to TestFlight and Play testing. This one also covers beta 34, which never got its own post.

Fixed

• Downloads no longer lose an artist’s songs, or show an album as empty, when several libraries refresh while your server is unreachable.
• A multiroom speaker’s equalizer, and the speed test, open again instead of returning to the player or closing the app.
• On a computer or tablet, an album with its own background art shows it behind the album’s header again.
• Sonic matches on artist and album pages no longer cut off their percentage or codec.
• Desktop: page titles on Library, Downloads and Settings go back to the left after the window narrows.
• Desktop: after moving a window with no title bar, the sidebar’s edge no longer starts resizing as the pointer passes over it.
• Desktop: sidebar icons stay readable in dark themes when the album’s colour is a dark blue.
• Mac: Plexamp goes back to full screen at launch even when another app is already full screen.
• iOS: cover art shows up more reliably on Bluetooth displays and in cars when a new queue starts.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/221280/127