Summary
For streaming your collection, Plex is an excellent tool, but it can do even more by acting as a middleman to your streaming services. It’s so handy that you’ll find yourself opening Plex more than the other apps.
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How to Connect Streaming Services to Plex
Searching For Content From Other Streaming Services
Now, with your streaming services connected to Plex, open up the “Discover” tab. See the streaming services under “Your Selected Services?” If you select one of those, you’ll get a list of content that the streaming platform offers right now.
Additionally, if you stay on the “Discover” page, you’ll find a series of categories, like content recommended to you based on the services you’ve connected to, as well as content that’s trending too.
It’s a really handy way of seeing everything all at once—the forest rather than the trees, in a sense. For me, it dramatically reduced the amount of time I split among all of my subscriptions. Now, I just use Plex to look for something to watch.
When you want to watch a movie or TV show, you select it in Plex, then look under “Watch from these locations.” Pick the most relative subscription, and Plex will launch that app. The content is not streamed through Plex!
Creating a Universal Watch List
The other handy feature Plex has is the ability to create a universal watch list. It’s another reason I rarely use my subscriptions to proprietary apps. Instead of having, at most, six different watch lists, I can have just one with Plex.
Go back into the “Discover” tab and choose one of your streaming services. Any time you find something you want to watch later, select it and choose “Add to Watchlist” next to the poster. You can check out your universal watch list by selecting “Watchlist” on the left side. I also use it to keep track ofanime added to mainstream streaming services, too!
Get Updates When New Content is Added
Another super helpful feature is Plex’s RSS feed and Push Notifications. The former is useful for getting updates from other Plex media servers—which you may also send to people you’ve invited to your server—and the former is useful for getting notifications whenever content from your watch list, universal or otherwise, is added.
To send your own RSS Feed to other people:
To receive notifications of your watch list when content becomes available:
Plex Pass
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