This way, iTunes remains the place to manage your music collection. Sharing – iTunes sharing enabled: If you use iTunes on the same system the Plex server is running on (independent of Mac OS X or Windows), Plex can use your iTunes library.Both the instance in PMS and the file itself. Enabling this setting allows every client to delete an item directly. what episodes I watch the previous night and delete them manually. I don’t retain the files I’ve watched, so the time I sat behind my MacBook, I had to remember e.g. Before Plex, I used AirVideo to watch media on my iOS devices. Library – Allow clients to delete media: Awesome feature.Otherwise you can still chose a movie in the client but upon play get an error the file can’t be found. When you sometimes manually delete media files like me, you also want PMS to remove the item from its index. Library – Empty trash automatically after every scan: This one is off by default.You can use a category as many times as you like. This is used in the client to distinguish between the different media. The left column allows you to specify folders with your media content and assign a category to them, like movie or TV series. Double clicking the tray icon opens the media manager, PMS’ main interface. That specific setting is found clicking the tray icon. Except for the setting to start PMS together with Windows, something you definitely want on a mediacenter.
Not much else I can tell about he actual installation.Ĭonfiguring PMS is pretty straight forward and is done from within the Media Manager. PMS will manifest itself in the background. Download both the Plex client and Plex Media Server (PMS from now on) and install as normal. Installation and configuration is fairly easy, but there are some things to consider. It even allows you to resume watching a video on your iPad you stopped halfway on your TV or the other way round. How it seamlessly delivers all my media with the exact same experience to either my TV, iPad or laptop over either LAN or WAN. I’ve been using Plex for some time now and love its multi-device flexibility. It’s free with multi OS and multi platform support. When I started my Mac Mini Mediacenter project, one thing was absolutely clear I wanted, no, needed Plex as my media front end and server. For the ones who don’t know Plex it’s a very powerful and easy to use media indexer, streamer and transcoder for images, music, videos and more.
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