Changelog

What’s New

• Free 14-day trial — Try MediaAegis free for 14 days with no payment required. Start a trial right from the app — no credit card needed — and subscribe whenever you’re ready.

Improvements

• The License screen now shows your remaining trial days and the date your access runs through.
• License activation and validation now handle license keys containing special characters more reliably.

New Features

• Collection Builder — Import existing Plex collections: bring your manual and smart collections into MediaAegis in bulk. Smart filters are translated into condition rules, “Title is” picks become manual items, identically-named collections across libraries merge into one profile, and you can assign a Maneuver label during import
• Collection Builder — Custom item ordering: drag to arrange a collection’s items and have that exact order applied in Plex when Sort Order is Custom
• Collection Builder — A collection can now carry multiple labels, written to Plex as separate labels

Improvements

• Subtitle Studio: the Timeshift tool now accepts milliseconds (e.g. 00:00:46,500) for finer sync

Bug Fixes

• Subtitle Studio: PGS (.sup) extraction no longer mistimes or drops cues when a subtitle is redrawn back-to-back
• Collection Builder: imported smart collections now keep their correct sort order (Alphabetical vs. Release Date)
• Collection Builder: with the Maneuver active, newly built collections are set to the Maneuver’s display mode without needing to undo and reapply

New Features

• Subtitle Studio — Bulk subtitle extraction: drop a whole season at once, select tracks across every file (including a one-click “select every track of a language”), and queue them all together
• Subtitle Studio — AI subtitle translation: translate a subtitle into another language with Claude while preserving timing, with an option to also save a clean copy with SDH/HI markers stripped
• Poster Factory — Ratings overlays now support IMDb and TMDB rating sources in addition to Rotten Tomatoes, and work for TV shows and seasons
• File Manager — Naming Studio detects Dolby Atmos from Plex’s audio profile reported by newer Plex Media Server versions

Improvements

• Subtitle Studio: AI Translation is available in both the Subtitle Extractor and the Subtitle Workbench
• Anonymous usage telemetry now distinguishes each AI feature (correction, Vision OCR, translation) and the Claude model used
• Updated Users Guide and website with the new features

Bug Fixes

• Poster Studio: the Ratings Overlay is now available for TV shows and seasons, not just movies
• Poster Studio: the Double Shadow frame now renders for TV show seasons
• Poster Studio: renaming a season and uploading it individually now updates the title in Plex (previously only the batch upload did)
• File Manager: Folder Workshop no longer inflates the Snapshot Health count when it updates an existing snapshot

New Features

• Poster Factory — Ratings overlays composite critic scores, audience scores, and star ratings onto posters, with customizable icons, layout, and presets
• Poster Factory — Ratings Overlay Presets with an “Enable by Default” option
• Collection Builder — MediaAegis Maneuver automatically manages collection display mode to resolve Verse vs. Franchise conflicts
• Collection Builder — Collection Label condition field for cross-collection rule logic
• Policy Agent — Metadata Tools for bulk metadata operations
• Library Research — Saved queries and a condition clipboard
• Chronos — Reinstall Helper button for recovering a stale LaunchAgent

Improvements

• Poster Factory: set a default frame variant and text color in Text Presets (Canvas defaults)
• Collection Builder: per-server Maneuver state tracking
• Poster Studio: season title editing and collection lock bypass
• File Manager: improved folder colon matching
• Updated Users Guide with new screenshots and documentation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed app displaying as “MediaAegisGUI” instead of “MediaAegis” in the menu bar, window title, and Sparkle update dialogs
• Fixed Sparkle showing a false update available on fresh installs due to a build number mismatch

The first public release of MediaAegis — a complete toolkit for protecting, recovering, and maintaining your Plex Media Server configuration.

Core

• Plex library snapshot and restore with sidecar-based storage
• Support for Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos, Playlists, and Collections
• Per-field lock state preservation during export and import
• Cross-server migration with intelligent metadata matching
• Health Check for verifying snapshot coverage and integrity

Add-ons

• Policy Agent — Rule-based label automation with 8 built-in templates
• File Manager — Formula-based naming profiles and folder compliance auditing
• Subtitle Studio — OCR extraction, AI-powered correction (Sonnet & Haiku), and batch processing
• Audience Vault — Per-user configuration, permissions, content filters, and activity backup
• Poster Factory — Custom poster overlays and episode titlecard generation
• Publishing House — Collection automation and library research tools
• News Kiosk — Change tracking with categorized timeline of all modifications
• Chronos — Background scheduling with recurring jobs and multi-queue support

Infrastructure

• Sparkle auto-update with EdDSA-signed appcast
• Freemius licensing with 14-day free trial
• Native SwiftUI app for macOS 26.4+ (Apple Silicon & Intel)