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Plex media player plex mix5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s the future of audio playback across all Plex applications which can host it. We’ve also implemented a few effects plugins on top for spoken word audio: one for voice boosting, and the other for silence compression. It’s portable across almost all desktop and mobile platforms, and provides the features you might hope for: sample-accurate gapless playback, high quality resampling, Sweet Fades, soft transitions, pre-caching. Over the next two years, we worked to overcome both of those limitations.įirst, we set out to create a new audio player library we call TREBLE, built on top of a low-level commercial audio engine. ![]() The app itself was built in React, which is tied to the web. It incorporated an advanced player under the hood which provided features like gapless and crossfading and it drove a number of improvements to the Plex Media Server for music libraries, including advanced loudness analysis and library and artist radio.Īt its core, though, it suffered from a number of inadequacies which limited its potential: the player engine had portability and licensing issues beyond desktop platforms and didn’t have an easy way to add functionality (effects plugins, e.g.). ![]() Oh, and one more thing… Plex HTPC (and the Plex Desktop app) now come with official support for Linux! Head over to the Snap store and check ‘em out! (and what about flatpaks you may ask? We are actively working on flatpak builds that will be released on flathub initially).The first version of Plexamp was a small, highly opinionated music player released for macOS, Windows and Linux. Thanks as always to our intrepid community members who have been with us through the forum previews and provided tons of great feedback! The curious can find lots more details on all the advanced features of Plex HTPC on our support site. The HTPC is where we got our start many moons ago, and we’re delighted to help carry on the tradition! Crafted with love by Mac-loving, Home-Theater-PC-loving folks, for like-minded individuals with Mac minis in their home theater racks and a keen eye for audiovisual perfection. If you rewind all the way back to 2008 or so, the very first Plex app ever, OSXBMC, was a Mac port of the excellent (for its time) Xbox Media Center app. It’s an amazing app designed specifically for use on the big screen. Well, it’s been a long time in the making (better late than never, right!?), but as of today Plex HTPC goes live as the true spiritual successor to PMP TV mode. And of course, a dedicated Home Theater PC (HTPC) app (designed to run on a computer connected directly to your home theater setup) would need support for advanced features like audio passthrough, refresh rate switching, controller support, and configurable input maps. We quietly set about building a true PMP TV mode replacement: an app that would combine the buttery-smooth and modern TV UI shared by the rest of our TV apps with the amazing player capabilities of the desktop app. Turns out people want their PMP TV! We committed to supporting PMP until we had a better solution, but we knew that plan wasn’t sustainable in the long run due to the aging code base that’s no longer shared with our other TV apps. Sure, most people may not even understand half the words in that last sentence, but if you know, you know. Some folks spoke up in defense of their dialed-in mappings for their favorite controllers, others had a penchant for particular scalers, and some were just looking to squeeze the most out of an already-connected gaming rig. Well, suffice it to say that we heard no shortage of feedback from die-hard TV mode fans explaining how the alternatives weren’t up to the task for their intended use. ![]() “Streaming devices are pretty great these days,” we thought, “maybe a gentle nudge is all the remaining TV mode holdouts need to make the switch?” A Lot of Love for PMP TV Our original plan was to retire Plex Media Player entirely, and with it, our support for “TV mode”-the “10 foot” UI intended for use on the big screen with a connected Home Theater PC. It was intended to replace the aging Plex Media Player’s (aka PMP) “desktop mode,” bringing best-in-class playback capabilities, support for Downloads, and more, in an app that was focused on the desktop experience. A while back (like, in the Before Times), we launched the Plex desktop app for Windows and macOS. ![]()
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