Plex Media Server For Mac
You’ve got all that media – photos, videos, recorded TV, music and more – scattered across your network, and now there’s a load of online media to tap into as well. How can you possibly keep on top of it all while making it possible to access your media while away from home on your portable device?
- With our easy-to-install Plex Media Server software and Plex apps on the devices of your choosing, you can stream your video, music, and photo collections any time, anywhere, to whatever you want. Quick Start Video. Getting started is easy, download Plex Media Server.
- PLEX Media Server. We already have the done couple of articles on Plex and it really has some.
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I uninstalled the Plex app itself, which I had downloaded and installed, by clicking and dragging it from the App folder in finder to the trash. However, its ghost lives in this Plex Media Server thing. This remainder item shows up in my dock and opens each time and constantly runs and I can't even remove it from the dock, let alone destroy it.
Plex is one possible solution. It allows you to share the media content – photos, music, video and recorded TV – from selected folders on the host computer as well as any network shares, but that’s not all. Plex also lets you tap into online content too, allowing your clients to access internet-hosted media like YouTube, NetFlix and more through the same interface. These are served via the use of special Plex PMS Plug-ins, some of which are included with the main download, while others are available for separate download and install.
Plex comes in two parts: this is the Media Server, which you need to install on the PC or Mac that’s hosting all the media content you wish to share. Note, previous Mac builds combined both media server and client in a single application – this is no longer the case from 0.9.5 onwards.
Setup is relatively simple, but easier on the Mac than Windows – visit the wiki for full instructions (click the 'Laika' link). Your library can be organised according to four types of content: TV shows, movies, pictures and music. Select which folders – network shares as well as folders – to make accessible, and they’ll be made available to your clients, complete with metadata that helps identify the content being played, including artist bios for music and movie descriptions for video.
Then all you need to do is install the client software and your library will be available for streaming on that Mac, PC or portable device. Get the Plex Media Center client for Windows and Mac, or Plex for Android and iOS mobile devices.
Verdict:
Plex Media Server Download For Mac
The Mac version is polished, reliable and well worth trying, but the Windows server still suffers from various glitches that make it harder to wholeheartedly recommend.
I swiped the following from the Plex Forums
Delete Plex.app from your Applications folder and delete the following:
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Application Support/Plex
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Preferences/com.plexsquared.Plex.plist
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Logs/Plex.log
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server.old.log
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server.log
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Logs/Plex Media Scanner.old.log
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Logs/Plex Media Scanner.log
- /Users/[YOUR USER]/Library/Caches/com.plexsquared.Plex
see > How to Uninstall Plex - Plex Forums
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