Select the Windows version of Plex and then click the DOWNLOAD button.Click that link (if you have any issues you can always head directly to the Plex Downloads section of their site). Once your account has been created (instant) you’ll be sent an email from Plex with a download link.Just visit the Plex Sign Up page and fill in the required info. It’s is completely free, but you do need to create an account. The very first thing you’ll need to do to install Plex is to sign up for an account.Anything it has trouble identifying is easily fixable after the initial setup. Don’t worry too much about the file names as long as they generally adhere to the ‘rules’ we covered above. You can see all of the naming rules, suggestions and info here. All that it’s really looking for is the name of the show and the season and episode numbers. For example, if you have things like “dvdrip” in the file name, it doesn’t care. In fact, Plex is so good it’s able to disregard information that isn’t important. Again, it allows for some leeway – it has no problem with my dots instead of spaces and dashes – Where Name of Show is the name of the TV series, S01 is Season one (01) and E01 is Episode one (01). When it comes to naming the files for TV shows, Plex follows the “standard” of: As you can see in the screenshot below, I had to include the year of the movie Sisters, because there was one made in 1973 and one in 2015. One thing that will ‘help’ Plex to identify your files is to make sure the year of the movie is in the file name, although it’s only really important if there are two movies with the same name. Fortunately, Plex is incredibly good at figuring these things out, and it doesn’t actually matter that I use dots instead of spaces. For example, the best way to make sure that Plex can identify a movie is to name that file the title of the movie.Īs illustrated in the above image, I have ‘dots’ between each word in the title rather than spaces (Plex recommends having spaces). Generally Plex looks at the file name itself for information. Hopefully that won’t be the case though, and Plex does a lot of helping :) When you add a media file to Plex it automatically tries to identify that file so that it can download descriptions, cover art, background art etc. It’s possible that the part of this process that will take you the most time is making sure your audio and video files are easily identifiable by Plex. Plex Apps for iOS, Android and Xbox Overview Between the amount of effort and thought that went into making Plex so easy to use and the level of detail in this guide, absolutely anyone can install, setup and start using it in no time at all!ġ. Plex works on all modern versions of Windows (Windows 7, 8 and 10). This guide takes you each and every step of the way through installing and configuring Plex on a Windows PC. It supports virtually every media file format you can throw at it (including hi-fi music and video formats), it supports Chromecast – you can even share your content with friends and let them stream from your collection. While most of you probably already know what Plex is, for those of you who don’t… In a nutshell, Plex is a piece of (free) software that organizes your media, makes your collections look great, and lets you access and stream all of that content from other computers, TVs, gaming consoles, tablets, smartphones, etc. This detailed guide will take you step by step through the process of setting up the Plex Media Server on your Widows PC.
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