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Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.

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[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The app is great! I'm glad it's finally available to everyone.

But Plex's music support is clearly an afterthought. Anemic ID3 support, impossible to edit tags, even worse playlist editing support, etc. It's quite sad

[–] Debs@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm confused by this comment. Are you recommending it or nah?

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The app is great! But if you're used to micromanage you songs, you gonna have a bad time.

[–] Kizaing@lemmy.kizaing.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always put my music through MusicBrainz Picard, have had 0 issues with plex picking stuff up

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not a matter of Plex not picking it up correctly. More a matter of what you're limited to do afterwards with the data.

And once you're there, you're stuck in the closed ecosystem.

But hey I'm still using Plexamp so they must be doing some things right

[–] Kizaing@lemmy.kizaing.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh that's fair, yeah it would be awesome if it allowed editing metadata

[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I honestly still use iTunes as a manger for my music, and doubletwist on android to sync solely because it moves over the smart playlists as well. I have WAY more music than necessary and I'm very meticulous about what music goes where.

If the iTunes playlists could sync natively to plex it really wouldn't be that much of an issue and I'd stream from my server :/.

[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel you. I got tired of iTunes and migrated everything thing to Plex for the sake of usability / device compatibility, and I am dumbfounded by the lack of basic features in Plex music.

They basically applied the features of Plex Movies over to Plex Music without really thinking about it much.

[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep that's exactly what I thought too. I do like how simple the movie/tv management CAN be (assuming naming structures are correct) but a lot is lost in the weeds of simplicity.

Well, TV management is easy unless it's anime (looking at you DBZ). Or looney toons. Ended up having to buy a license to file bot for dbz.

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[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

Damn really? That's sucks.

[–] soda3x@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'd say that's more of a Plex core complaint rather than Plexamp. Plexamp has been great but plex has a long way to go in terms of music support. iTunes library management was much better than what plex has.

[–] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Also, where's my damn audiobook support!

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[–] uglytruck@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I use Jellyfin - music, shows, movies... it's open-source and has a lot of features Plex doesn't including, not having to create an account. It's your's to do what you want.

[–] jeebs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's not really a great feature, but, is the user experience easy to use for sharing? Meaning when I have my tech inept family members watch at their home from my server, can they use it as easy as Plex?

[–] LimitedDuck@septic.win 7 points 1 year ago

The sign-in experience is where you're going to get a lot of friction. Your users are going to need your server address. They'll have to log in to devices with username/password including TVs unless they have signed in once already somewhere else on the network like a desktop. Then you can set up an Easy PIN code or use Quick Connect, but those are hidden behind the user settings menu.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Be sure to update the factory files to point it to a better external player. The built in one for Jellyfin sounds terrible.

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[–] derekvof@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually there is a Jellyamp which works with Jellyfin although not as feature complete as Plexamp

[–] LimitedDuck@septic.win 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're talking about this, then it hasn't seen an update since 2021. Maybe you mean Finamp? It's a serviceable app, but it's very simple and dated-looking compared to Plexamp. Definitely better than the Jellyfin app though which is just a web wrapper.

[–] Chaphasilor@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

We're in the process of redesigning Finamp from the ground up, adding new features and keeping existing ones. More info here. Stay tuned!

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There is Swiftfin for iOS. It’s not just a music app though. But it’s better than the official app.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plexamp is one of the main reasons I continue to use Plex. Does Jellyfin have anything close to how awesome plexamp is?

[–] spaceduck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nope I still use plex for music. Jellyfin for everything else.

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[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Don't get why people gets so exited for this when there's better software without paywall and open-source like Navidrome or Funkwhale.

If you going to self-host, use a dedicated software

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Eh, I like Plexamp’s features, but the app is not exactly free, more “freemium.” All the compelling features that you’d want to use it for are behind the subscription paywall. DJ, track and album radio, the unique features aren’t free.

Also, at least on iOS the app feels clunky and sluggish with long delays when skipping, scrubbing, playing, and pausing. (EDIT - turns out this is specifically an issue when using Airplay, it's fine for local playback).

My wife uses Plexamp on desktop (Mac and PC) and it seems good there. I personally tend to use the WiiM app for Wiim mini with Asset UPnP server.

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

I use oto for local playback and Symfonium for streaming (even though it's clunky as fuck when it comes to organizing albums by data and discovery)

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aside from having visualizers, how is this at all like Winamp?

[–] AcornCarnage@whatyoulike.club 14 points 1 year ago

Plays MP3s, don't it??

[–] llama@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, this doesn’t quite whip the llama’s ass. The only obvious resemblance / possible inspiration I see is the name? …which is kind of.. eh..

[–] aruraios@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Has visualizations"
So did Windows Media Player, plus Plexamp's just can't compare to Milkdrop

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[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It really kicks the llamas ass.

[–] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really whips the llama's ass.

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but I don't get your reference.

[–] victron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? Age test: where were you on 9/11?

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We could tell.

The first thing Winamp would play after you installed it was "Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!"

[–] Kioga@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard about this yesterday and I downloaded the plexamp app on my windows desktop to try it. When I ran it, the first thing it had me do was sign into it with my plex account. It then tossed an error at me telling me that I need to subscribe to plex pass to use it. I don’t understand the “free” part about this plexamp going free announcement.

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe there needs to be a server side update on plex's part or something.

[–] Kioga@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had the same assumption. Or maybe nobody uses the windows version, lol. I did a Google search and checked the plex forums, nobody was talking about the issue. I just sort of walked away after that.

Still, very odd to make an announcement that’s literally not true. Gotta be something weird on my end I guess?

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, the same way I can watch movies for free on Netflix, after I sign in with my account.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, just in time as the new owners of Winamp release their app.

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait winamp is releasing their own app?

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I'm not holding high hopes for this thing at all. Feels like it's just some rando company puppeteering Winamp's corpse around for the brand recognition and nothing else.

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's about my feeling too. It's why I keep specifying its the team that has winamp now. Not like the forks are any better. Wacup is a bloated mess.

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

That's neat.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There is a new version for windows too. 5.8 or something was the last released one iirc.

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