

The Plex Media Server package should be installed. Plex Media Server package is being installed. Once the Plex Media Server package is downloaded, you will see the following installation window. The Package Center app will start downloading the Plex Media Server package. To install Plex Media Server on the DSM 7 operating system of your Synology NAS, open the Package Center app 1, navigate to the Beta Packages section 2, and click on the Join Beta button of the Plex Media Server package 3 as marked in the screenshot below. At the time of this writing, the Plex Media Server package available in the Package Center of Synology DSM 7 operating system is still in Beta. The Plex Media Server package available in the Package Center app of your Synology NAS is officially supported by Synology. Installing Plex Media Server from the Synology Package Center: Initial Configuration of Plex Media Server.Configuring Shared Folder Access Permissions for Plex Media Server.Manually Installing the Latest Version of Plex Media Server.Installing Plex Media Server from the Synology Package Center.I will show you how to use Plex Media Server as well. I will also show you how to download the latest version of the Plex Media Server package for the Synology DSM 7 operating system from the official website of Plex and install it on the NAS. This article will show you how to install Plex Media Server on the Synology DSM 7 operating system from the Package Center app.

Plex can organize video and audio files as well. Plex can stream movies, music, TV shows, LIVE TV channels, and so on from the Plex server. Let me know if I missed anything, or added to your questions.Plex is a media streaming service. Plex doesn't make that real clear, but if you SSH into that folder, you will see "stay out" messages from Plex. The shared folder "Plex" is not to be used for anything. For this folder, I gave Plex read-write access. I created a separate shared folder for this optimized content (I named it "optimized"). I recommend that Plex has read-only access to your media files, as I see little reason for Plex to edit or delete those files.įor 2 tv series, I have Plex pre-transcode the next 3 unwatched episodes (Plex calls this "optimize" IIRC). Within that, I created subfolders for each individual TV series (according to Plex's recommended naming structure). In my case, I added a TV library within Plex. If you don't have that folder, you could create a new shared folder "media" and add subfolders for TV Shows, Movies, Music, etc. For example, most of my media resides in the shared folder "video" that was created by Video Station (before I moved to Plex).
