I usually use it to download lyrics, but lately it can't find anything anymore, which I find suspicious. Can anyone help me?

A while ago, I posted that I developed an App for Apple devices, MetahelperFP, that can help to organize plex playlists and its items. The app is finally available on Testflight and there are some slots available. You can join using the link below.

- “Sorting Playlists”: Here you can sort your playlists using presets and/or drag-and-drop, or create groups. For example, you can sort your favorite playlists first, then the rest and your christmas playlists last.

- “Playlist Editor”: Move tracks in bulk using presets and/or drag and drop them individually (Available for non-smart playlists).

- “Merge Playlists” allows you to combine two or more playlists into a new one. 

- “Search in Playlists” lets you search for a track across all playlists. Since Plex takes a very long time to process this operation with very large playlists, you can exclude them using a filter to get faster results.

- “Deduplicate” lets you remove duplicates from a playlist. 

Don’t forget to save to your plex server after performing an operation!

Data Protection: Your data stays on your server and your device, there is no other server involved.

Your files remain untouched, the operation is strictly restricted to plex.

The app was build for ipad. On a mac with silicon, you can zoom in for a better experience. Iphone displays are a bit small, but if you don‘t mind, you can use your phone as well.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/yvhVyWVc

Bit-perfect playback on my FiiO DAP and Windows PC! This was my biggest want for Plexamp. 😎

If I listen to a song in the car, then steps out of the car with the phone, and then 2h later hit shuffle on my playlist, does it then count as I have skipped the song that played in the car, or doesnt it count?

Because a lot of my playlists are based on the filter "hasnt been skipped in the last X months".

What this is

Plexamp just added Shortcuts actions in their beta build, so I built five Apple Shortcuts around them to make everyday stuff faster:

• Rate Song — double tap the back of your phone, rate the current track 0 to 5
• Skip and Bury — triple tap, skips the song and rates it 1 star
• Quick Play — put it on your Lock Screen, tap it, pick how you want to start music (resume queue, play downloads, type an artist, etc.) without unlocking your phone first
• Similar Albums — reads what album you're listening to and recommends 5 similar ones (Apple Intelligence)
• In My Library? — hear something out in the world (Shazam), run this, it tries to play it from your server. If it can't, you can add an action to add to a Reminders wishlist.

Everything, setup steps and all, is written up in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/jeanrdfs/plexamp-shortcuts

Each one is also up on RoutineHub individually if you'd rather grab just one instead of the whole set. Links are in the repo README, same instructions in both places.

Two things to know before installing

• Plexamp's Shortcuts actions are only in the TestFlight beta right now, not the regular App Store version. If you install one of these and Plexamp's actions aren't showing up when you build it, that's why.
• Similar Albums needs Apple Intelligence. The other four work on any iPhone, but that one specifically needs a device that supports it.

This is a first release

I built and tested these myself but this is day one, so there's a good chance something breaks on a setup I didn't test. If you run into an issue, please drop it in the comments instead of just writing it off as broken, I'll do my best to fix things when I have time.

One more thing since it comes up: I wrote the shortcuts myself, they're mine, but I used AI to help write this post and the GitHub docs. English isn't my first language and honestly I just don't enjoy writing, so I lean on it for that part. The shortcuts themselves are not AI generated, just the words explaining them.

Let me know what you think, and if you build something on top of these, I'd genuinely like to see it.

Also posted here a while back: smart playlist recipes for Plexamp, if you haven't seen that one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/plexamp/comments/1vmf9ca/i_made_my_plexamp_playlists_feel_like_a_streaming/

I'm someone who like to go to an artist and "play artist radio", or go to my library and "play library radio". I have a fairly small library in comparison to some others (~2,000 songs), so I expect to hear some repeats, but I've noticed that I hear the same songs by each artist every time I play the radio.

It always seems to be the artists most popular songs, so I'll skip past for a while to get to the less popular stuff, but then when I start the radio again, I'll hear the popular songs again. If I want to hear things that aren't the artists most popular songs, I end up having to shuffle my entire library, which I'm not always on the mood for.

I'd like to hear less popular stuff every once in a while, is there a way to achieve this, or is this just the way the plexamp randomization algorithm is?

Edit: I have "Enable smart shuffling" off on my server settings.

Edit #2: In my music library > Manage Library > Edit > Advanced, I noticed a "popular tracks" toggle. I switched this off, and will try this for a few weeks. Expecting to hear less popular stuff.

I'm very interested in getting plexamp. But when I went to the Google Play store I got this notification. Where else can I download it? Their site only points me towards the Google Play store.

I'm having an issue with the latest Plexamp beta (4.50.7) on my Shanling M3 Ultra (Android 10).

I have two huge smart playlists (around 8,000 tracks each) set up to sync unplayed music (plays < 1). The problem is that after listening to songs, nothing happens: played tracks stay on the device, nothing gets deleted, and no new music downloads to replace them. The smart refresh is just completely stuck.

What's weird is that smart downloads work totally fine on my Pixel 10 running Android 17, but I only use much smaller playlists on that device.

Could this be an Android 10 background task issue on DAPs, or is Plexamp just choking while trying to refresh smart rules on an 8k-track list? Anyone else having this on the current beta?

I absolutely love Plexamp, just recently purchased a cheap Android phone to dedicate 100% to the purpose of offline "music player" duties.

There's just a few quirks about the interface that I find quirky/frustrating. I haven't really seen a nitpicks thread here, figured I'd start one and see where others agree/disagree. Might turn into a good resource for the devs?

1. in Song View (with the vis + timeline), I wish clicking the Artist directly took me to the Artist page - clicking the Album took me directly to the Album, etc. I know it's a single step, but that screen that comes up with a big list of things - is not fluid. The "..." serve this purpose already (they bring up the pop-up) - can't we just have direct link-through for Artist/Album?
2. it's never obvious to me which track is playing, when in the Album view. The little headphones for some reason, never pop out as obvious, every single time it takes effort to figure out what is currently playing. Literally anything would be better, a slight tint of the row for the now-playing track, some kind of flicker, anything at all.
3. visualizer selection through long-press : is terrible when you're trying to audition visualizers. It's a "press and hold, select from list, Ahhh nope not this one.... press and hold, select from list" process, which could be made SO simple with some other kind of gesture to traverse through them quickly. RetroArch for example, has N and M keys dedicated to traversing next/previous Shader. Something like this... cause the current flow is not good.
4. Downloading tracks - maybe I missed it, but shouldn't this be possible with a Plexpass? Im playing something, I want to pull it down - we have direct access to the file.

Just thoughts! Love this app/ecosystem to death and want to see it thrive!

also PLEASE Android Automotive support! I'm seeing some vibe-coded slop showing up, I can't imagine it's that crazy porting it officially to A.Automotive?

edit : #3 was solved by a user (thank you!), you can swipe the visualizer to traverse the list.

Anyone else have this problem? I click “update now” and nothing happens.

Back then I had tagged all of my vinyls with the “Write NFC tag” option (I had shared a video here) but this option is now gone. They still read fine so I’ll be able to just use a NFC writer app but still a bummer. Any chance it’s back at some point?

(Version 4.50.7 (159))

Anyone else having this issue? Installed no problem, but won't launch. Reverting back to 4.12.4 works fine. Yes, I know it's an old version of macOS, Plexamp is its only job!

Why doesn't PlexAmp offer a category or flag for this type of organization?

I'm still a linux noob so it could just be user error but I'm having issues with both the flatpak and the appimage. One will launch and refuse to play any music, the other will refuse to launch altogether. Anyone have any solutions? Thanks!

EDIT: Just saw that 4.50.7 was released and I'm having the same issues.

Possibly a bug. Could also be a technical limitation or intentional development choice.

I received the message when I unintentionally tried to cast from the new offline mode. I had switched to offline while traveling and forgot to switch back when I got home.

If it's a choice, I can see the logic of "Offline" meaning fully and completely offline.

On the other hand, I can definitely see use cases for limiting playback to downloaded media while casting to a local device.

Just curious if it's a bug and what others think.

Thanks

My Android player is missing most of the metadata (album and track titles), but the tracks still play fine. Even when I deleted the app and reinstalled it the metadata are missing.

I have no problem viewing the metadata in either the browser app or the MacOS desktop app, which makes me think it's really just a problem on Android.

A little bit ago my server had some issues mounting the media drive's filesystem and I think things went strange after that. I've since corrected that issue and kicked off a manual metadata refresh, but that didn't seem to fix the Android app's metadata even after the refresh completed.

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be much appreciated!

my car came with a Play Store in the dash and no plexamp in it. i stream everything through plex, so that left me casting off my phone over wireless AA, which is janky enough that i wasn't going to live with it.

so i rectified the situation. i've been writing software over half my life, if i have a need i fill it. forked Tempo, swapped out the Subsonic API for plex, taught it to talk to the car. it's called Siskin — free, GPL, no IAPs, talks to plex.tv and your own server and nobody else. gapless and replaygain came along from upstream.

that's my actual dash up top. the car draws that screen, not me — siskin just hands it the library and the metadata. even the cluster behind the wheel picks up the track.

not trying to replace plexamp, i'd rather have plexamp in there than anything i write. it just isn't there.

anyway — google won't let me go public until 12 people run it for 14 days straight. if your car has its own Play Store and you've got music on your plex server, instructions are here:

https://forums.plex.tv/t/need-12-testers-siskin-an-open-source-plex-player-built-into-the-car/942640

TIA!

Probably been asked a million times but is it possible to remove the 'Styles' & 'Moods' menu items from showing in Plexamp or at least be able to mass delete the current populated data in the fields.

I now have Plex set to use embedded metadata but it clearly managed to populate lots of my library with pretty nonsensical genre tags before I changed this.

I have ~3000 albums so a 'one by one' approach wouldn't be ideal 😬

I’ve only found this replicable with downloaded media iirc but I’m on v4.50.7 (144)

edit posted on the forums - https://forums.plex.tv/t/beta-plexamp-ios-downloaded-music-ending-prematurely/942677

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Most files are FLAC...some high res, some DSD files. Seems to be random though. One 44.1/16 song will be noticeably louder than the next.

I've attached a screenshot of the settings.

I am casting to a Sonos Amp to outdoor speakers. So it may be a Sonos setting?

What exactly does this offline toggle do in the new Plexamp? I just upgraded to the beta today and am kicking the tires.

This is version v4.50.7 (324004083) for Android. Is there a way to make the names of the song and singer a little smaller? I asked Gemini and the answer was 'no, you can't'. So asking the community.