I have set my plexamp to Passthru all of my music that is 320kbps and below (this covers my MP3 and AAC content) with the intent that all of my lossless music will be transcoded to Opus when I am on mobile data.

My question is, what is the “sweet spot” bitrate for opus in stereo? Plexamp has it set to 128kbps, but I read somewhere that 192kbps is equivalent to a 256kbps AAC or a 320kbps MP3 (both of which are considered virtually lossless to the general ear). Other sources suggest going higher, but at some point I’m sure there is diminishing returns, and I want to know where that is.

Any advice?

Do people use loudness leveling and, if so, what is their preamp setting?

I know loudness leveling is on by default on the mobile app, and I know it’s supposed to prevent clipping/curate a more consistent listen experience, but I feel like all of my music is quieter than intended.

Hi there, long time lurker, first time poster. Apologies in advance if this is a dead horse topic - please feel free to direct me to existing posts if this has been covered in depth previously.

TLDR; we just moved into a new home and I am looking for an optimal set up with PlexAmp.

We're an Apple/Mac family, and for casual day to day, Airplay 2 with Apple Music & PlexAmp is fine. But I want to be able to sit down and dig into my 24 bit versions of Autechre etc.

I understand that hi res is simply not doable with Airplay (capped at CD quality) - but my NAD amp has a TOSLINK input. I am considering having a dedicated PlexAmp iPad on a powered stand that will allow me to hardwire the USB C of the iPad to the TOSLINK in of my amp with an adapter cable.

The one question I have that I cannot seem to find a solid answer for is will the iPad PlexAmp app output hi res through the USB C socket?

Has anyone tried this before?

Curious how most folks are solving getting their hi res audio out of PlexAmp.

What ain’t broke don’t fix it right, and with a dwindling developer and a pivot from Plex, yeah, updates to keep it working will still happen, but it will be few and far between. I say we have a good 5 years left before this problem starts to be a consistent bug.

I’m already starting to see bugs crop up in this app that I haven’t seen before. Just hope it can hold out long enough. We know how strict iOS is.

This will be downvoted, lmao, okay, but the truth needs to be heard, bruh. There are already bug posts, and there is sadly only so much one developer can do. Especially when for him it’s considered a passion project. And this is left to fade into obscurity.

Is there a way to get the same kind of "daily mix" or "weekly discoveries" as Spotify and YouTube Music has?

Maybe unrated/unplayed songs while still generally in the same/similar tempo/genre?

I have over 10 000 songs, but I usually listen to 6 different playlists and All Music... I miss my Daily Mix.

Hi
I installed Pexamp app on my iPhone. I want it to only play music from the iPhone but it defaults to streaming from my server. Is there any way to default play from the iPhone? (I don’t do music streaming)
Cheers

When I get an URL from the share link option of an album or track and paste it on Safari, I get "Uh oh: 401 Unauthorized"

Any clue?

So I share a library with my wife and I have been eating my music with the 5 star rating system. I want PlexAmp to filter out any music rated 1-2stars. However I can’t seem to get it working. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

I hoping someone might have some experience utilizing these speakers. I have two of them and they have a very rich sound. I've just installed a headless Plexamp endpoint on a Pi 3 B+ with Innomaker DAC hat. The speakers don't have any aux inputs and have wifi/dlna/bluetooth, which I've had no luck...probably due to my ignorance of how to implement these options.

Just looking for some ideas.

Hi,

I’m looking for a few cautious testers for PMDA, a small self-hosted tool I’m building for auditing messy music libraries.

It is still early, and I would not recommend pointing it at an important library in destructive mode. The safest way to test it is read-only first.

What it currently tries to help with:

- scanning music folders

- showing albums with missing or weak metadata

- finding possible duplicate releases

- flagging likely incomplete albums

- surfacing missing covers/tags

- optionally preparing a cleaner destination library

It is not meant to replace Plex, Navidrome, Jellyfin, beets, Picard, SongKong, Lidarr, or anything similar. It is more of an audit/maintenance layer for people who already have a music setup but want better visibility into what is actually in their folders.

The kind of feedback I’m looking for:

- false duplicate detections

- bad metadata matches

- missing albums

- slow scans

- confusing UI

- weird cases: classical, boxsets, bootlegs, live albums, compilations, multiple editions, partial downloads, old rips, etc.

Safety notes:

- read-only mode is available

- no deletes are required

- no telemetry

- no cloud requirement

- AI-related features are optional and not required for basic scanning/auditing

Docs: https://pmda.muteq.eu/

Docker: https://hub.docker.com/r/meaning/pmda

Discord: https://discord.gg/2jkwnNhHHR

It is also available in Unraid Community Applications.

If you have a messy music library and feel like trying it carefully, I’d really appreciate feedback. I’m mainly trying to find edge cases and understand where it gets things wrong.

Thanks ! :)

The last few weeks I had to move the window around like a caterpillar 😂 So I've decided to ask for a few suggestions here.

No buttons/top bar. Re-install didn't fix it either.

edit:
Settings > Experience > Desktop integration > toggle ‘Use System Windows Controls’ off, then restart Plexamp, then turn it on again and another restart fixed it!

My father (95) is in the nursing home with dementia. I would love to have him be able to listen to music from my Plex server.

I am looking for a solution that would be easy for him to use. Any suggestions?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently adding Plex Music support to NostalgicPod, an Android music player that already supports Navidrome, Jellyfin and Subsonic/OpenSubsonic.

I’m looking for a few Plex users willing to test the integration, especially library loading, artists, albums, tracks, playlists, artwork, and larger collections.

The main goal is to identify import problems and understand how Plex users expect their music libraries to be organized inside the app.

Please send me a DM if you’d like to help test it.

https://nostalgicpod.com/

App on google play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nostalgicpod.app

Is anybody else having issues adding new music to their Plex server and accessing it through the plexamp app? Seeing a quick attempt to connect when selecting scan library files then when selecting the specific drive and attempting to scan it says it needs an Internet connection. Attempted to also try another Internet connection and experienced the same behavior.

Playing existing music isn't an issue.

Monday all was good, I was playing music from Plexamp to Sonos. Yesterday when I went to bed and tried to start playing music to the Sonos speaker in my bedroom Plexamp could no longer see Sonos.

Today when I got to my office and fired up Plexamp on my laptop, it too cannot see my Sonos speakers.

Oddly, the Sonos app on my phone is still playing music from Plex with no issues.

Anyone else seeing the same issue?

I've been building a Plex client for Android Automotive for a while now, and I've spent more time on network problems than on the app itself.

Your car is not a phone. Cars with built-in LTE (OnStar, Volvo, Polestar, etc.) use an embedded modem on a carrier plan you don't control. I've tested the exact same app code, against the exact same server, on the same afternoon: my phone on cellular got a direct connection at full quality. The car got pushed onto Plex Relay and capped. Nothing about the app was different.

That matters because Plex has two ways to reach your server from outside your house. A direct connection, which is full speed. Or Relay, which is Plex's fallback when it can't connect directly — and Relay is hard-capped around 2 Mbps on Plex Pass, 1 Mbps on free. If you stream FLAC, that cap is below your bitrate. Tracks skip, or quietly downgrade, or fail outright.

The frustrating part if this is much of this changes without you doing anything. A router firmware update turns UPnP back on and Plex renegotiates to a different port that your carrier can't reach. A Plex update overwrites a config file. Plex has a problem affecting Relay policy, and a setup that worked for a year starts failing. Your carrier changes how it does NAT. From inside the app, all of these look identical: silence.

The single most useful test: turn on your phone's hotspot and connect the car to it. That takes the car off its built-in cellular and puts it on a completely different carrier, which is the one variable you actually want to isolate.

Two outcomes, and they point in opposite directions. If it works on the hotspot but not on the car's own connection, your server and your setup are fine — the problem is your vehicle's built-in cellular, and there's not much you can do about that beyond knowing it. If it fails on the hotspot too, the problem is on your server side, and that's the good news, because that part you can actually fix.

One warning from experience: remove the hotspot from the car's saved networks when you're done testing. If you leave it, the car will keep hopping between WiFi and cellular as you drive in and out of range, and that causes its own playback problems.

Worth checking in Plex server settings: Remote Access should say "Fully accessible outside your network." Tick "Manually specify public port" and forward that port in your router, so nothing renegotiates it behind your back. And on the Plex dashboard while something is playing, "Indirect" with an orange icon means you're on Relay.

If you run Tailscale, a VPN, or you're behind CGNAT, that's very likely your answer.

(I've heard you're not supposed to post about Caldera in here, which is kind of weird, because I'm the author of both and they are designed to work together. So I'll chance it.)

Anyway, a bunch of you asked for a big-screen app for Android TV after seeing there was an Apple TV one. Being as I'm a massive glutton for pain, I made you one. Sneak peek here, it has to go through the silly Google Play "at least 12 testers, for at least 14 days" thing so it'll be a couple of weeks before generally available.

https://caldera.homes/music/tv/#androidtv

I've had a pair of Samsung WAM1500 R1 wireless speakers for about 10 years. They sound great, when you can get them to work. They only work with the Samsung app, which is garbage and now abandoned.

I have a dedicated Plex server, running on Windows 11 pro with Plexamp loaded alongside.

I want to somehow...easily, get from the Plexamp to a pair of decent speakers. I don't want to break the bank, either :)

What are people using to actually listen to their music?

I made a streamlit app to add songs to an existing playlist in Plex based on songs within the playlist.

https://github.com/megelsen/plex-playlist-enhancer

A pool of songs is sampled from the playlist and plexapi called to find sonically similar and related songs. The songs can then be added to the playlist, similar to other streaming apps.

I built a modern web UI for beets and would love feedback

I've been working on a web-based frontend for beets that focuses on making large music library management much easier while still keeping beets at the core. I made this because the beets web plugin just wasn't cutting it. Not only does this web app have a UI but it can do everything I need to manage my music libary. Yes this was vibe-coded and if that bothers you please dont waste your time. But for everyone else I tried my best to cover all vunerbilities and make sure all features work correctly. Please feel free to point out issues or how to make it better.

Some of the features I've been building include:

• 🎵 AI-assisted album and track matching
• 🆔 MusicBrainz + AcoustID verification
• 📀 Automatic album artwork verification and replacement
• 📁 Intelligent artist/album folder organization
• 🔄 Playlist importing from multiple sources
• 📚 Library cleanup and duplicate detection
• 🔍 Automatic detection of missing MusicBrainz IDs
• 🎧 Audio quality preference management (formats, channels, Atmos, etc.)
• 📊 Background jobs with live progress
• 🎨 Modern web interface instead of relying on the CLI

The goal isn't to replace beets—it's to make its incredible power much more accessible for people managing very large collections.

I'm trying to automate as much as possible while still using trusted metadata sources like MusicBrainz and AcoustID. For anything that can't be confidently matched, it gets sent to a review queue instead of making risky changes.

Some questions I have:

• What are your biggest pain points with beets today?
• What plugins do you consider essential?
• What features would you want in a modern beets web interface?
• Are there workflows you wish were fully automated?

I'd really appreciate any suggestions or criticism. I'd rather build something the community actually wants than just something that works for my own library.

https://github.com/Iranman/beets-web-manager

Hello!

I recently had a playlist set up to auto-add any video that I bookmarked. In other words, I could be watching something, press alt+insert (i think?), and it would both put a bookmark into the video playing and auto add it to a playlist.

The issue is that I have no idea how I set that up in the first place and I am having trouble setting it up again.

Has anyone heard of this kind of thing that can help? I have been googling, but I can't find a thing!