How to use plexamp11/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I haven’t gotten anything similar to the Roon squid or any disconnections to the server or the iOS app crashing! The app feels like a finished, refined product, whereas the Roon iOS app feels like a forever beta. But there were times that I had to disable Qobuz in Roon just to play my local library and it was never this smooth. Granted, it’s using my local library only. The app is very snappy and search is instantaneous. Maybe my equipment is not resolving enough. To my ears, I couldn’t tell the difference between Roon and Plexamp playback. And it can stream to Chromecast, albeit not gaplessly. It plays gaplessly and my DAC reports the correct sample rate. You can control the playback with your phone, computer, etc. Streaming is from the server to the endpoint. I installed the Plexamp app on my phone to use as remote, chose Plexamp on my pi as output and presto. I then used a browser to configure the Plexamp on pi to output to my DAC and make it bit perfect (removed loudness leveling, sweet fades, etc.). ![]() And then installed Plexamp on a raspberry pi 3B+ (DietPi), put in the token from my Plex Pass sub, and configured it to run on boot. I installed Plex Media Server on a miniPC and added my modest library (320 albums, all FLAC). The main difference is that the Roon Core decodes the FLAC files and sends PCM to the endpoints, while the Plex server sends the FLAC files to the Plexamp endpoint where decoding and DSP happens. From what I can tell, it runs pretty much like Roon without the frills, magazine like UI, and the frequent disconnections (hey yo!). This is an app “as is” which works fine, but need definitely more.Hi, Michael. I hope Plex Labs will build a full sized app some day with even more features. It’s also most likely a feature and not a bug, but I hate that I can’t focus it since it lies in the menubar area of my Mac OS. UI is great, but for my “old” eyes, it’s perhaps too small. While it is sufficient for my daily use, it’s not perfect. I have to manually go through my massive collection to get everything out of Plexamp. Grapevine is great, but for my underground library it is not. This can be considered as both advantage and disadvantage, but I’m quite sure many of my readers don’t have a home server so that’s why this is a clear downside. While I personally love servers and setting up my own media files, not many do. You can listen through your related songs with just one click, how great is that? Con: Needs a server This feature is familiar from Spotify or Google Play, but I’m amazed you can do the same with your own music collections. Mp3 and flac is all you need, but if you’d happen to have aiff or wma, let’s play it! Library and artist radios Great, huh? Supports almost any music format You can download the app for Windows, Mac and Linux. That means blazing fast performance, no lags or hiccups! Gapless playbackĭidn’t remember how much I missed this feature! Listening to a Pink Floyd and Devin Townsend is a godlike experience. Well, let’s skip to the pros and cons, shall we? Fast performanceĪpp is small not only by its user interface, but I read it’s coded well. Remember Winamp? Plexamp is just like the original Winamp, kinda. The biggest disadvantage was the lack of any solid desktop player.Īfter my occasional googling of music server and music apps, I stumbled upon Plexamp. The music server and gravenote didn’t convince me first. ![]() Well, there’s Plex! It’s the best media server currently available and couple of years ago they opened their music service for the Plex Pass owners. Open source server side software like Subsonic, Madsonic and variants are ugly and need lots of work. Less known Roon is great but very expensive for a system that doesn’t work from outside of the home network. Google Play Music comes close since it hosts all your mp3s, but it lacks in metadata. Spotify is near perfect, but for a big music nerd like me it still lacks some of the more underground side of music and has quite limited support for your own mp3s. I’ve been searching for the perfect music player forever.
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