Too little to late imo. I long switched to jellyfin and can use all the features that plexamp offered for free in various apps of my choosing
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Ya I'm surprised that people are advocating for Plex these days especially in a self hosting community, it's overbloated and mostly exists to force their FAST service down your throat
Plex has to be one thing where I like the bloat. It makes it feel like a fully featured streaming service that I control instead of just a fancy looking video folder.
I'm assuming cause it works good enough for most that the incentive to change it nearly none. Kinda the same deal with moving from reddit, works good for the use case that open stuff might be worse.
which apps? I tried jellyfin and plexamp works better than any of the jellyfin android music players I tried.
Currently using symfonium, does everything I need at least. Can't speak for plex since it been years but it has most of the things you need, offline playback, playlist downloading and syncing, casting, supports transcoding etc. Plus it works with plex already so you can try it out (it's free for a week then paid iirc but it's well worth imho)
I use symfonium too. Great app. I've stumbled across some bugs here or there but that might be due to my setup and if I actually bothered to report them, I imagine the developer would be quick to fix them. At least he was fast to reply the last time I opened a ticket.
One great thing I like about Symfonium is the aggregation of multiple libraries. You can add a plex, jellyfin or subsonic API compatible server (like navidrome) simultaneously.
Give Gelli a try, I pretty much use it exclusively to listen to my music on the phone.
Didn't find a good alternative for desktop yet though.
I tried it but had issues with offline content, does it work now?
I haven't looked in a few years, does jellyfin have seeded shuffling where you pick a song and it builds a playlist around it?
The player I use for it is symfonium and it can do instant mixes. Genre tagged based tho, so it can be a little wonky but it gets the job done for the most part
Symfonium is great. The devs "Yatze" kodi remote is also excellent.
If Jellyfin had a good Xbox app I would switch immediately.
If you don't mind using Xbox Media Player you can enable dlna in jellyfin. It's how I typically stream to my smart tv
Doesn't hold a candle to the plex setup. I might be able to deal with it, but I would miss the UI, and my wife wouldn't go for it at all.
Fuck Plex.
Such great news. I absolutely love Plexamp and now that it’s free for the masses I can only hope there’s more awesome features coming in the future.
Im betting lunch they are losing market to jellyfin and the free finamp.
Plexamp has been kinda stagnant for a while and can be finicky on lossy connections (ie: cell service)
finamp is missing enough features to me to make plexamp worth paying for to me (not automatically switching to transcoding on mobile data, not supporting opus transcodes)
And they still lock downloads behind plex pass so guess my jellyfin server isn’t going anywhere
Ive been increasingly considering Jellyfin. I really only use plex for OTA tv/libraries on roku's 99% of the time
Rarely do I use mobile or others. But plexamp is like 99% mobile too.
I’ve only tried it with music and iptv channels, both of which work well and free dvr is a large plus
Another shitty thing about Plexamp is there is no easy way to download your entire library in a converted format and auto download any new additions.
The developer said that "this is not the intended use of Plexamp", but the reasoning is flawed IMO
That’s probably my biggest complain tbh.
My entire library can fit on my phone. No reason to stream. If my home internet has problems I can’t listen to music? Or if I’m out in the sticks (often enough) I suddenly find out what’s actually cached/downloaded and what isn’t solely because it’ll skip entire albums or just fail to start songs etc.
I use Plex just for plexamp! Great software!
I tried it on Linux Mint and I'm directed to FlatHub, which states:
★★ You'll need a Plex Media Server and an active Plex Pass to use this app ★★
Installed it anyway, but:
I guess they didn't update that version yet?
Edit ~24 hours later: I just got the update. It works now.
Edit 2: ... but media keys don't seem to work :(
Plexamp is my primary music playback in the car commute if I'm not listening to an audio book. Love it.
Went through a lot of playback apps over the years, and Plexamp is definitely the best of them all. Reliable downloads, good quality, eq settings.
Plexamp is really great software -- the various methods of randomizing means I'm re-experiencing parts of my music collection like new, and connecting tracks to other tracks that I'd never put in the same playlist.
The only thing keeping me on Plex is iOS downloads supported natively.
The second Swiftfin gets that I will be switching fully to Jellyfin
Unless Plex adds something new and exciting that pushes them beyond FOSS offerings
I bought it, apparently. I used it so much I thought it was free.
I believe it was previously only offered to plex pass members.
Thanks for the info. Wanted to try it for ages.
Currently using poweramp.
Dispointed though, I use exactly the same music set stored on my phone and also on nas drive. Yet sorting doesnt always put the album together and the search doesn't find all of the artists songs.
Sticking to poweramp.
Finally I can remove my family from my home users. Only added them so they could use Plexamp via my plex pass
Why use this over Spotify? I don’t actually own music so is there any advantage for me?
No, it's entirely for people with personal collections. Or I guess if you use Tidal idk.
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