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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not gonna lie I love Plexamp so glad I gave it a chance awhile ago.

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  • apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I use plexamp as well, I think I bought Plex Pass specifically to have it.

    You can install a headless plexamp client onto a Raspberry Pi and have it hooked up to an audio receiver for seamless music casting.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, what? That’s cool.

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      • apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s a bit of a process to get it going, but it’s worth it for me so that I can use my phone to cast directly without needing to use a smart home device.

        howtohifi.com/install-headless-plexamp-endpoint-h…

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• AlphaAutist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like Plexamp but there’s a couple of things to be aware of depending on your music library that took me a while to figure out:

  • They downsample anything above 48kHz which isn’t a big deal but sucks if you have hi-res music. It won’t even tell you it’s transcoding if you check the dashboard and Plexamp will show it as playing at the actual sample rate which is misleading when trying to debug.
  • It doesn’t distinguish between explicit and clean versions so if you have both then it will just look like duplicates. You also can’t favorite just the clean or explicit version as favoriting one will do the same for both versions.
  • They don’t support Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos(E-AC-3) music. Doesn’t matter if they are m4a or flac. Again, nothing about transcoding in the dashboard but the sound will be horrible. It does at least show in Plexamp that the song is playing as Opus. I know everyone says multichannel music isn’t worth it, but I wanted to try it out and was very disappointed when Plexamp wouldn’t play them.

  These probably aren’t issues to the majority of users with just their favorite songs in mp3 or flac 16-44, but it’s something for people with larger hi-res/multichannel libraries to be aware of that I recently learned.

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  • Blxter@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For your second point can’t you tag the song as explicit and put in it a separate album (album name (explicit) ) and unmatch the album (or add a specific explicit version to music barainz to match with) I have had to do this with instrumental versions assuming it’s the same process.

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    • AlphaAutist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are already tagged as explicit/clean in the metadata as well as separated by folder with an [E] tag if explicit. I could manually rematch them but my library is large so I’d really rather not

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• hefty4871@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those plexamp sweet fades though. 🤤

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