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Free Bird! Plexamp Spreads Its Wings for Every Music Lover | Plex

www.plex.tv Free Bird! Plexamp Spreads Its Wings for Every Music Lover | Plex

We’ve got a big (or should we say loud?) announcement to make: Plexamp—our highly rated, fan favorite music player app—is...

So we got Free version of Plexamp :)

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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
- 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)
  
  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 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
- 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
- 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
  
  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

I use Plex just for plexamp! Great software!

Plexamp is my primary music playback in the car commute if I'm not listening to an audio book. Love it.

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 :(

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.

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.

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

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.

I’ll keep using the premium version of Prism.
https://prism-music.app/

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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