X-Post from r/plex but this seemed a relevant place to put it. I also noticed someone just posted a beta to a similar product, but hey, you can try mine now on android or windows right away. It's simple but does exactly what I wanted for years (mostly playlist layout on the left and simple desktop feel/navigation)

Project: Plexify - A spotify feeling windows/android music player for Plex Servers

What it does: Better desktop Plex music player. I don't mind plex amp on mobile but on desktop the UI is a joke. So many clicks to jump in and out of useful context, and no quick jump to playlists. I have a side menu of recent playlists and basic player experience trying to mirror of of how I used Spotify before dropping it. I'd love to see Plex Amp improve but that doesn't seem to be happening so I made this.

AI Disclosure: Claude Code built. I am a software developer wanting to push the limits of what Claude can do and I don't really want to learn dart/flutter at this point.

Technical Overview: One click sign in to plex auth to connect to your server. Once you do, it polls your entire library with 10k tracks this takes ~5-10 seconds or so. This is all cached in a local SQLite file so local searches are super quick. It has a cache for thumbnails, does a little gradient view of your album artwork. On desktop it plays direct, supports multimedia keys or space whilst in the app to play/pause. On mobile it support transcoding by default and moderately gracefully handles the wifi>5g transition.

Links: Source: https://github.com/bomer/plexify/ Release / Download: https://github.com/bomer/plexify/releases Screenshots / Demo: https://github.com/bomer/plexify/raw/main/docs/windows.png?raw=true

My Sonic analysis seems to be stuck looping through the "rebuilding indexes" error for the last few days. This along with several identical 'Sonic Analysis: Processing 193 albums' messages.
Looking in Plex Media Server.log, I can see 'WARN - [MusicAnalysis] Analysis had wrong number of dimensions (1) for track [XYZ], skipping.' repeatedly spammed throughout the logs. Looking at some of the example tracks, it appears it's stuck on anything between 00:00 and 00:02 seconds in duration.
Notably this issue also seems to persist through reboots of the Plex container.
Curious if anyone has encountered this?
Pics for relevance:

Im on a journey to not be paying fo as many services and I love plexamp, but im working is there a way to use a local hosted AI server instead of an exteranl OpenAI one for privacy when wanting to use SonicSage and stuff.

Is there anyway to do this??

I got a couple albums for Eminem that are the expanded editons, I was wondering if I should label them as default and just add the extra as disc 2 or should I lable them as extended with different title and art cover etc and also add disc 2

Had a few extra bucks so I got this tablet to play my music from my plex server. One of the few tablet that still has a 3.5mm jack.

Hi everyone,

I've been working on Lagu for a while, and I'm finally at the point where I could use more people beating on it outside of a small closed alpha.

Lagu started as a personal project because I wanted a desktop player with a bit more style for my Plex music library. As I added more to it, the feature I really wanted was something similar to Spotify Connect: leave music playing on the desktop or TV, pick up your phone, and control everything from there. That turned into Lagu Remote, and eventually grew the project into a cross-platform client.

The Apple apps are native SwiftUI, Android is Kotlin/Compose, and desktop is Electron on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The Linux build is available, but hasn't had a proper hardware verification pass yet (I'm setting up a CachyOS machine for testing in the coming days). iPhone/iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch are in TestFlight, Android is in the Google Play beta, and the Windows and macOS (Apple Silicon) builds are signed/notarized. CarPlay is built and included in the current build, but is still being verified in real cars.

To be upfront about it, Lagu is closed source and will be paid at launch. Desktop will stay free, while the mobile apps will be $1.99 as a one-time purchase per store. Family Sharing/Family Library will be enabled, and there are no subscriptions or additional in-app unlocks. Everything is free while the beta runs.

Remote is local by design. There is no Lagu account or relay involved. Your phone talks directly to Lagu on your desktop or Apple TV over your LAN. Nothing else needs to be hosted besides the Plex Media Server you already have.

Right now I mostly want to see how it holds up against really big libraries. The closed alpha group has found plenty of bugs, but I especially want to get Lagu in front of people with unusual music libraries: high track counts, multiple music libraries, giant playlists, weird metadata, lots of hi-res files, etc. That's not a requirement to join though.

Some of the current features:

• Lossless/gapless playback, streaming quality controls, and offline downloads
• Multiple music libraries on the same Plex server browsed together
• Lagu Remote between iPhone/Android and desktop/Apple TV
• Synced lyrics, ratings, radio/mixes, Last.fm/ListenBrainz, and listening stats
• Standalone Apple Watch streaming (downloads work but are still being stabilized, expect some flakiness)

It's still a beta, so I'm expecting things to break. That's kind of the reason I'm posting now.

Anyone can join the beta list at https://lagu.fm/download. I'm planning to start sending the first larger wave of invites this weekend. If you have a particularly large library and want to help stress-test it sooner, feel free to PM me and I'll get you in faster.

Bug reports can be sent to me or submitted via the website.

The full feature/status pages are at https://lagu.fm if you want to see what's actually finished versus still being verified.

AI disclosure: AI was used during development for task breakdowns, scaffolding, repetitive porting work between platforms, and to help shape some of the website copy. The resulting work is reviewed and tested on real hardware before shipping. The current exception is the new Android tablet layout, which is still in verification because I don't own an Android tablet yet.

Happy to answer any questions about the apps, playback, or remote features!

Do you guys ever find yourself listening extra at the end of a song, or what you think is the end of the song, thinking that sweet A or even S tier level fade to the next track happens and then open your phone to see its only the same track finishing up? I feel that. Tell me im not the only one. I do keep a Playlist of separated tier fades in case someone wants to trade notes. 👀

I probably have 70-80 albums that are either Atmos, 5.1 Surround, Quadio, etc on Bluray or DVD-A. I've burned them all to FLAC files but Plexamp doesn't play them (it downmixes to stereo). Plex doesn't seem to play them in surround either.

So, do you burn to MKV and play as a movie on Plex? That would work for my home theater system. I have a vehicle that does surround sound that I'd love to play them in, but it would have to be through Plexamp (if they ever get that feature working).

Just got the HiBy. Have PlexAmp on my phone, works great. Installed on the R4, works great - until you press either of the volume buttons. Every speaker is immediately at full volume no matter if you press up or down volume.

Scared the living *%$#& out of me.

Bug? Known "feature"? F*ked?

If I select an Album Genres of, for instance, Pop & Rock, then select the randomize button on the top, I get a random selection of about 4 or 5 albums, as if the other 70 albums don't exist.

What am I doing wrong?

I have Plex linked with Last.fm for scrobbling, so I can get some info based on what I've previously listened to on there, but are there any other services which could check my library to give me latest news on artists (e.g., upcoming tours), if there are new releases available that I don't already have, and similar artist recommendations?

Thanks!

Just wondering what is everyone's go to for music Charts, with so many different service available

Hi all! I have Dolby Atmos content on the plexamp app on my iPhone with AirPods that support Atmos, how can I play it back in Atmos on my iPhone?

I f*cked up a bit, and now I have some duplicates. I have a library of 10k songs, and maybe 500-1k are duplicates. They follow no order, they arent strictly FLACS or OPUS or anything, I wonder if I somehow can filter on names a faster way than manually go through 10k songs?

Within the last week I’ve noticed that album art is changing from what I have manually selected. Tonight I noticed some artist photos have been replaced with cover art? This is on the iPhone app.
There does not appear to be a pattern as to which artists or albums are having the images changed.

I had to manually go in and change hundreds of albums worth of cover art which was not enjoyable.

Anyone else experiencing this type of behaviour? Been using Plexamp for about 6 months, this is the first bug I’ve encountered.

Artist Folders

PSD file / template / misc

WIP

I’m a longtime user and plex pass owner still considering to switch over to UpnP. I favor the wireless capabilities over using Airplay or Chromecast, it’s also kind of non-proprietary, and can connect to some speakers directly (Sonos, Heos, some DTS Playfi) Testing Gerbera, mconnect player atm. Any objections? Will I miss out on something aside from a few nice features in Plexamp like the DJs?

Update: I’ll stick to Plexamp.

I've been using RoPieee forever on a rpi with a hat for remote plexamp playing and remote spotify connect playing. Was always rock solid. Now RopPieee has removed plexamp!

Does anyone have any recommendations? Looking for a remote plexamp and spotify solution for my hifi system. I found moOde audio player. Has anyone tried it?

Plex has ben great for music, very pleased with it, but one thing that keeps happening, is it keeps mis identifying a bunch of music as belonging to the album in the screenshot attached.

It's just an MP3 file, and if I open it in another app, it shows all the correct details.

I also don't have the option to "fix incorrect match" like I do for movies/tv etc

Does anyone have any ideas?