your digital life is crazy flex makes it crazy good enjoy your media wherever you
are all your movie TV show music and photo collections at your fingertips
flex takes just a few minutes to get up and running the magic behind flex is the
plex media server keeping track up and providing access to all your content on
any device with a consistent beautiful experience you'll get addicted to first
choose a computer to run your plex media server the central brain that tracks all
your media
it's best to pick a computer that's always on and has access to all of your
media
let's start by installing plex visit flex . TV and sign up for a free flex
account after that
download the free plex media server once downloaded unpack the file and do the
installation as you normally would from your platform confirm the startup
screens and flex will go ahead and start running
name your plex media server and now you're ready to add your media
collection flex will recognize just about any kind of video music or photo
format these and many more
click add a library then choose the kind of media that you'd like to make
available via flex you can add movies TV shows music photos and Home Videos
almost anything you can add as many media types as you'd like a plex works
best of each folder contains only one kind of media if you forget one
don't worry you can always add more later flex is smart about gathering
media descriptions and artwork and we'll start matching your content to its
metadata immediately
that's a fancy way of saying the Plex makes your content beautiful and
engaging with posters artwork plot summaries and more now that you've got
your content loaded into plex
let's enjoy it just to show you the basic beautiful interface and flex
we're going to use the Flex web app to check out some of your content on your
computer
it's super simple the best news is you're already in the Flex web
it's where you've been adding media
the Plex web app is where you'll manage plaques and your preferences and of
course you can play your content from here as well to play a piece of content
you just simply hover over it
click the play button and you're off try it play a movie
try some music you can also view details for an item filter or sort your library
and generally navigate around your collection
it's so easy ready to explore plex there's a lot of awesome stuff to help
take your media experience to the next level
mobile sync premium music-sharing channels & more
keep your eyes on the Flex youtube channel for new videos if you're like
most flex users are going to be enjoying your media on all your screens
you should look to install some flex applications next we have them for
practically every device you own
so get started check out flex . TV for more videos and the latest news