Hi all,

Honestly, Plexamp is a pain in the ...

I do not have any single playlist, just music I like to listen to. I maintain my "collection" for 25+ years now by just simply adding or removing mp3 (which I bought btw). It sits around +/- 2500 songs.

I never had any playlists (as I do not want to invest any time in managing categories, which I do not care about) and definitely do not plan to invest a single second in this (for me) useless concept, I do not want to use. Nor did I vote in any kind for any songs, as I do not want to tap constantly on my phone like a zombie, just listen to music while I am abroad without data plan (no I will not buy a expensive abroad data plan just to listen to my music that I own and have available space on my phone to sync to) and no connection to my homeserver (as all countries besides my homecountry are geoblocked by my ISP from accessing my home network, which is completely fine and I do not want to change it in any way).

For years, Plexamp does not allow to sync the whole library. Depending on the way I try to sync it, I get different amounts of songs on my phone (but never all). "All music" syncs around 1/3, the method via library syncs ~300 songs more) - everywhere the slider set to maximum. This behaviour is total crap!

The developers are ignorant. They want everyone use the app they like to use it. But that is not how I want to use it! I just want to sync all my songs I legally own to my phone, where i bought enough storage. I bought a Plex lifetime pass to have a software to do that - It worked previously before the mandatory Plexamp, but now it does not work anymore for a while. That is not how you treat someone who funded you from early days!

Reading around, he argues with shady arguments, asking users for "use cases" - well none of your business! Just implement full sync feature, as clearly a ton of users need it. And your argument that some smart playlists or other fancy crap saves storage - well - yes, because it simply does not sync the whole library and I do not want to constantly manage libraries, playlists, check every time before travel that all those synced - Just hazzle-free sync of my whole library to my phone. Simple as that. And your current solution does not save any storage, it uses more. I use two library syncs, one sortet upward, the other sorted downwards. That kinda syncs all songs (but also syncs the overlapping ones, which results in more diskspace used than it would need for just a "sync all".

To anyone who got this far: Thanks for reading my rant, any suggestions for Android apps which are capable of simple sync of my whole music library to my phone (no need for any fancy smart things)?

Thanks for reading!

I have a Yamaha receiver to which I am intending to connect a Raspberry pi 4b with a HiFiberry digi+ hat via an optical cable.

My initial intention was to have both the plexamp and server on the same Pi but I am now thinking of putting the Plexserver on an Orange Pi5 I have spare and running the Plexamp on the Raspberry pi using RoPieee XL as the OS.

This means that I will have a more efficient server as it is connected to a Buffalo Link station so will do the uplift from there.

The Orange Pi5 is more than capable providing they I can get it all working

The only question in my mind is that it seems a little overcomplicated for the end result that I am looking for and ongoing maintenance will involve looking after two different hardware solutions.

I could of course simply install Volumio on the Raspberry pi and have a much simpler solution but, it wouldn't have all the functionality that the Plexamp solution has.

Had anyone else gone down a similar route and what would be your advice?

8 Mile: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture (deluxe limited edition)

https://musicbrainz.org/release/e2c46f54-4e66-4ab0-9ff7-4d616cebfbd9

I just ripped this album and I am unsure how to correctly tag the album so that it shows up correctly in Plex / Plexamp.

First I had the first CD tagged with the complete title and that works, and the second CD with The Shady Aftermath Sampler, but it didn't really work very well. Plex doesn't seem to recognize that this is a two part album and it gets messy.

Any tips?

Hello,

it seems that my Sonic Analysis is stuck at an album (in the dashboard it says "processing 1 album") and it is currently running for over five hours without any changes.

Usually the Sonic Analysis is able to process about 10 albums/hour on average, so even if it is an multi-disc album with 20 discs it should have been finished by now.

Is there a way to see what album exactly is processing and why it takes so long?
I took a look at the console, but I cannot make out any indicators.

I run Plex on a Synology Nas423+ if that is relevant.

I have a mac mini 2025 running plex, (plex amp is not),

I log on to any device on my internal network and it plex says it cant connect to the device despite it shows in the list of servers and that they're very bummed about it.

I've looked around and I haven't found a valid explanation of why this happens on a daily basis. My Router is my modem so I don't use any third-party mesh devices in the house. All devices are online and working with my network

This drives me bonkers since recently I have a bad knee, and I have to go 3 flights down to sit on the mac, log on, close and open plex, open, close plexamp, close it again then go up again to log on to my office pc and then I'm able to play some music. I just miss the effortless access i had with ROON minus the Roon Tax.

Can someone suggest what can it be?

Thanks

While I read tons of cool posts about creating playlists with AI, ratings and so on, I just put all my favs (albums and singles) in one giant list and press shuffle. There is one thing that is annoying about this and that are tracks that are meant to be played sequentially but don't on shuffle.

Is there a way to tag two or more tracks to play sequentially in order when in a larger shuffled playlist?

Or, as a feature request please make a way to tag tracks so they play sequentially and in a specific order even if in a larger list that has been shuffled.

Thank you.

So I downloaded an album but messed up and had a bunch of songs in the album that were just the whole album. I redownloaded the song and it plays right if I download the album or if I play on web player, but in this plex amp it's stuck playing the original file that was wrong.
I've tried clearing the playback cache... how do I force it to update the songs? Why is this not a setting to rescan?

I'm excited even though any programmer or serious nerd would probably scoff at this. I have finally given up on Wiim getting things together to make their products Plex endpoints and their half baked solution sucks for Plex. It's too bad. They do make a pretty good product that does a lot. It just didn't work for my case.

I managed to dig out my old Raspberry Pi 3B+ and get Ropieee going on that and put it upstairs. It works so well as an endpoint I wanted another. Well....Pi's are stupid priced anymore. So, I saw an Orange Pi 4 Pro for a decent price and decided to go for it as they can supposedly run quite a few different OS.

Got it and immediately tried doing Ropieee. Nope. Not sure what the underlying OS is for Ropieee but it didn't want to work for the 4 Pro. Tried some others and burned them to a card and still didn't work. The Orange Pi Debian install wouldn't activate SSH no matter what I tried. So, I decided to give Ubuntu a try as I have good history with it. BOOM! Ubuntu Jammy 5.15.147 did the trick and was running just fine.

Then, I used the process from Odinb which installs Plex headless (his is made for DietPi but works on Ubuntu). I actually followed this guide to get it going. Followed instructions and it worked! Had to adjust the output but now my second stereo is streaming from Plexamp just fine. Now, to figure out Snapcast and how to get stereos synced for whole house music. This is mainly for others to know that the Orange Pi 4 Pro can be used for this purpose and does a great job and pulls very little power. Cheers!

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So i just subscribed to plex remote play and gave my friends access to my library and plex still ask them for a subscription to remote play did i get it wrong ? cause i thought the host must subscribe and it'll apply to users.