Software Update: Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929

Version 1.27.2.5929 of Plex Media Server has been released. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various NAS devices. The software can serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Client software is available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Google TV and Chromecast, for example. The program is free to use and also has PlexPass, a paid service that gives access to ‘premium features’ and earlier to new versions. Since version 1.27.0.5897, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.27.1.5891 (Plex Pass/Beta channel update)

Fixes:

• (Library) When media was deleted it could leave behind its sidecar files (#13479)
• (Music) Album year and date fields could differ when preferring local metadata (#13591)
• (Transcoder) Audio could drop out partway through playback when remuxing videos with very long keyframe intervals to DASH (#13411)

Plex Media Server 1.27.1.5916 (Plex Pass/Beta channel update)

Fixes:

• (Database) Fix an issue where re-migrating a database could fail after downgrading, interrupting the server startup process, then immediately re-upgrading (#13643)
• (Library) When media was deleted it could leave behind its sidecar files (#13479)
• (Music) Album year and date fields could differ when preferring local metadata (#13591)
• (Transcoder) Audio could drop out partway through playback when remuxing videos with very long keyframe intervals to DASH (#13411)

Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929 (Plex Pass/Beta channel update)

New:

• (Logging) Improved context provided in log lines related to asynchronous HTTP request processing (#13530)
• (Music) Support for Musicbrainz release type embedded tags (#13593)

Fixes:

• (Linux) Improve Intel Compute Runtime version detection in packaging on Ubuntu 22.04 and newer.
• (MDE) Remuxes could be rejected unnecessarily on files with certain color spaces (#13634)
• (Scanner) Album release date tags could be imported incorrectly from tags when using the legacy music scanner (#13560)

Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929 is now available to everyone