{"id":262525,"date":"2018-05-30T17:30:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=262525"},"modified":"2018-05-30T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:31:33","slug":"plex-rolls-out-podcast-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/262525-plex-rolls-out-podcast-support.html","title":{"rendered":"Plex rolls out podcast support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plex has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plex.tv\/blog\/have-plex-your-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>overhauled<\/strong><\/a> its Android and iOS applications, and implemented a number of new features.<\/p>\n<p>The company has launched podcast support in beta across its iOS, Android, Roku, and Plex Web platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Podcasts are free for all users and do not require a Plex Media Server to be set up on a user&#8217;s device.<\/p>\n<p>To help users browse and play podcasts, Plex has overhauled its player to allow for variable speed playback and has implemented new discovery features.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Podcasts are also a great fit for the media platform we\u2019ve built here at Plex, which is probably why people have asked us to add them for years,&#8221; said Plex.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Screen in the Plex Android and iOS apps is now customisable, and tabs have been added at the bottom of the interface for easier navigation.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Plex-Podcasts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-262527\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Plex-Podcasts.jpg\" alt=\"Plex Podcasts\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Plex-Podcasts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Plex-Podcasts-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Plex-Podcasts-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/254945-plex-now-on-oculus-and-gear-vr.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Plex now on Oculus and Gear VR<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plex has overhauled its Android and iOS applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,691,51221,51219,31376,51217,40300,28212],"class_list":["post-262525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-media-server","tag-on-deck","tag-plex","tag-plex-web","tag-podcasts","tag-roku"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262533,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262525\/revisions\/262533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}