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[21st century cowboy]

Does anyone know if I can plug my Amazon Fire USB into my PS4?

 

[tokkun]

Yes but you was comparing the interface so I figured you was just talking about as a media player

Aside from this one fatal flaw, it does have a better interface than Plex, even as a pure media player. It is faster. DLNA allows you to browse both by metadata and folder structure; Plex only allows the former. And it has broader compatibility.

Now, if your only choice is between Plex and PS4 Media Player, I would pick Plex, because song order is just so essential. But if we are talking about all available solutions for doing in-home music streaming, I don't think Plex is particularly good. Whereas PS4 Media Player would be great if it just fixed this one issue.

 

[Mendrox]

Yes it does, you have to press Options then select the PSVR icon while the video is playing.

No. VR SBS videos don't work like this. It has to be a sphere video.

 

[Wonko_C]

The console can't find any of my FLAC music, only MP3. What am I missing here?

 

[CouchMaster]

The latter is thanks to Sony’s DSEE HX™ technology. What this means is any MP3s or AACs – files whose space-saving compression strips out some of a song’s subtleties – played through your PlayStation 4 will be automatically upscaled. It means your compressed music will now sound much richer as a result. You can get a more in-depth breakdown on how the technology works here.

Time to cancel my Spotify premium.

 

[androvsky]

Using Plex means sacrificing the ability to play music in the background. The app is also pretty slow compared to the PS4 Media Player and requires the use of a Plex server, whereas the DLNA standard works with a bunch of apps and network appliances. Personally I would rather just use the PS3 than use Plex on PS4.

I do wish Plex supported background music playback, but I suspect that's more on Sony since the radio apps don't do background music either. Plex does have builds for the server that run on network appliances, and there's a web client built-in that works with anything that supports HTML5 video and audio streaming. The Plex server also doubles as a DLNA server automatically, so all of my music in Plex is available to the PS4 Media Player.

Aside from this one fatal flaw, it does have a better interface than Plex, even as a pure media player. It is faster. DLNA allows you to browse both by metadata and folder structure; Plex only allows the former. And it has broader compatibility.

Now, if your only choice is between Plex and PS4 Media Player, I would pick Plex, because song order is just so essential. But if we are talking about all available solutions for doing in-home music streaming, I don't think Plex is particularly good. Whereas PS4 Media Player would be great if it just fixed this one issue.

The Plex app on PS4 does have a sort by folder option. Granted, it took them way too long to add it but it's there now. I'm not 100% sure it's available for music, but I use it for unscraped videos (Plex doesn't handle disc extras for TV shows well).

The Plex app on PS4 does have a lot of issues, but it's more flexible than you think.

The console can't find any of my FLAC music, only MP3. What am I missing here?

If you're using a DLNA server, it might still think the PS4 can't play FLAC and is ignoring the files. Seems unlikely though, since most of the servers that do that can transcode. Might depend on your settings. If it's on a USB drive I don't know.

 

[Wonko_C]

If you're using a DLNA server, it might still think the PS4 can't play FLAC and is ignoring the files. Seems unlikely though, since most of the servers that do that can transcode. Might depend on your settings. If it's on a USB drive I don't know.

I'm using Universal Media Server (like, for the first time actually), I'll test it via USB and see if It detects them there. Thanks.

Edit: No luck, it acts is like nothing is there. The Media Player is updated and all.

And not even the MP3 versions are detected, strange:

 

[icecream]

Has anyone tried FLAC in an MKV container yet?

 

[onQ123]

I'm using Universal Media Server (like, for the first time actually), I'll test it via USB and see if It detects them there. Thanks.

Edit: No luck, it acts is like nothing is there. The Media Player is updated and all.

And not even the MP3 versions are detected, strange:

Might be some kinda protection on the files or something, is it just one album that's doing this? or maybe the files have a name that's not readable by the PS4 so make a copy of one of the files & use a simple name to see if it shows up

 

[brightsons]

Does anybody know if it's possible to convert a 3D side by side (sbs) 180 degree file to a 360 file?

 

[PaulLFC]

Is anyone getting "track numbers" displayed as some sort of weird binary number after the update?

I use BubbleUPNP to get the media player to play my Google Play Music library - before the update this worked fine. Now, it still works, but every track has numbers before it, and unfortunately they aren't track numbers either. It's just a combo of 1s and 0s, getting longer and longer as there are more songs in a playlist.

It's more an annoyance than anything but I don't understand why it would do this. It makes no sense.

 

[Wiped89]

Ps4 media player support dlna and mp3.

About mkv:


The main problem with mkv files is DTS sound

Does it? How? I've never been able to play files off my home network...

 

[Schrade]

Does it? How? I've never been able to play files off my home network...

Use MediaInfo on the files to see what's in the mkv container. List the codecs and we'll tell you why.