Plex Media Player for iOS Gets a Major Overhaul

Plex today updated its media player application for iOS.

The Plex application allows you to use your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch to browse and play your media (video, photos and music) using the Plex Media Server installed on your Mac or PC. You can view online media from a variety of sources. If you have Aperture, iPhoto, or iTunes installed you can also stream the content to your mobile device.


What's New In This Version:
Everything has changed. Except the icon.


• NEW: Zero-configuration access to your remote media via myPlex.
• NEW: All-new home screen with recently used channels and recently added media.
• NEW: Universal media queue via myPlex.
• NEW: Access to shared media via myPlex.
• NEW: Alphabet indexing for quickly browsing through large media collections.
• NEW: Subtitle scaling.
• NEW: Audio boost for videos.
• NEW: Internationalized to French, Swedish, German and Korean.
• NEW: Much improved Direct Play.
• NEW: Search integrated into home screen (pull down!)
• NEW: Much faster and more reliable connections.
• NEW: Caching improvements, images cached between WiFi and 3G.
• NEW: Remember last filter (e.g. Recently Added) for each section.
• NEW: Dynamically adjust buffer size for audio streaming.
• NEW: Display album art/track name on lock screen (iOS5).
• NEW: Display air date for episodes.
• NEW: Support for photos via Plex Media Manager.

• FIX: Lots of memory leaks fixed.
• FIX: Tons of crashes fixed.
• FIX: Lots of improvements to music player.
• FIX: Much better behavior switching between networks.
• FIX: Less unneeded reconnecting.
• FIX: Lots of tweaks for aesthetics, rotation.
• FIX: Much faster starting and resuming.
• And over 150 more bug-fixes!

★ Please head to www.plexapp.com to download the latest version of the software
★ Many new features require the latest Plex Media Server

You can purchase Plex from the App Store for $4.99.


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