Flex - Music Player

Flex Music 2.0 — a bigger update for your own music library. PLAYBACK THAT STAYS CLOSE Play and Shuffle now start in the mini player so you can keep browsing. Expand into Now Playing with its handle, then slide back down. Enjoy smoother playlist scrolling, steadier controls, a more useful Up Next queue and consistent portrait and landscape layouts on iPad and larger screens. On iPhone Duo, use a compact player on the cover screen, a stacked layout in portrait, and the player and queue side by side when opened in landscape. Controls stay clear of the system strip, with your player and queue retained as the layout changes. Square artwork effects stay outside the cover and follow parallax. BUILD YOUR NEXT FEW SONGS Play Next puts a track first. Play After Next adds it after your manually queued songs, keeping their order. Use either from track menus or configurable swipe gestures, and jump straight to the playing song from its playlist menu. SMARTER DISCOVERY Use Smart Search with Plex filters, previews and editable starters such as Recently played, Unplayed gems and Rediscover. Save and edit smart playlists with Pro, start a mix from a track, and save a listening session as a playlist with Pro. LISTEN YOUR WAY Cast music to Google Cast and Sonos, manage speaker volume and queues, and show synced lyrics on compatible Google Cast displays with Pro. Music casting and on-device lyrics are free. Manual lyric search lets you preview and save a better match. LESS DATA, MORE OFFLINE MUSIC Optional Data saver asks Plex to convert audio before streaming, with separate Wi-Fi and cellular limits. Persistent stats show measured converted-audio usage and savings for eligible completed tracks. Converted tracks are now saved for replay and offline listening, with a cache browser and quality badges. New downloads follow your Data saver settings and reuse suitable saved audio. Offline downloads of any size and favourites sync are now free. MAKE IT YOURS New home-screen widgets, custom themes, more visualizers and independent artwork effects, alternate app icons and navigation icon styles. New installs start with Slate, Apple Line icons and Glass style; artwork effects, parallax, colorful icons and menu labels are off. Your saved preferences stay yours. The Pinned Playlist widget is free; other widgets, alternate app icons and navigation icon themes/styles require Pro. Editing playlists over 100 tracks remains Pro. MORE RELIABLE EVERY DAY Improved Plex playback reporting keeps recently played history current, including eligible offline plays after reconnecting and confirmed casting activity while connected. Better recovery after long pauses and returning to a track, corrected Watch-to-phone artwork, remembered playlist views, clearer Help and a refreshed guided tour. Menus use less space while retaining readable text and accessible controls. Settings use consistent rows and clearer explanations; Data saver playback and cached-track quality upgrades are more reliable. USAGE STATISTICS Optional PostHog usage statistics is on by default in configured builds. Events use a persistent random installation identifier, not a Plex account identity. Music titles, search text, credentials and screen recordings are excluded. Turn it off under Settings > About Flex Music > Usage statistics. Diagnostic logging is now opt-in. Requires iOS/iPadOS 18 or later; devices on iOS/iPadOS 15–17 cannot install this update. Data saver stats measure converted audio, not all network traffic. Receiver and server support varies.