Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is now free, the company announced today. The project was first launched in 2017 as Plex’s own spin on the classic Winamp media player app, offering visualizations to accompany your tunes, tools for programming mixes, and more recently, a ChatGPT-powered “Sonic Sage” […]
It requires logging in because it requires you having your own media server already set up with your own library of stuff. It’s self-hosting, not a subscription type service.
Last.fm is just a way to track what you listen to, and get recommendations off of it. The recommendations are actually pretty good, which is why I bother with it. You set it up on your Plex server, so it’s pretty much fire and forget.
Stop complaining and if you want open source so bad make it. I am hardcore open source advocate but you are going beyond , they are giving out for free.
This is exactly the news I needed today. I have been playing with the idea of using Funkwhale or Ampache, but couldn’t bring myself to self host another media system knowing that Plex could theoretically do it. The regular Plex app sucks so hard for music tho, this is gonna solve my issue I think.
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If only they would spin back up their photo library feature they cut from plex into it’s own app so I can remove my reliability on google photos.
They are plenty of options! Immich is a really popular one , I went with Synology photos since I own a Synology NAS
Thanks! I will definitely check those out. Really appreciate it.
PhotoPrism is another major competitor in case you feel like checking another option out
Thanks! I’ll def add it to my list.
I love plexamp. Happy to pay for plex pass
Requires logging into Plex to even try it out, alas. Fastest add and delete ever.
It requires logging in because it requires you having your own media server already set up with your own library of stuff. It’s self-hosting, not a subscription type service.
Of course it does. How could it possibly work without logging into Plex?
You can share your Plex server on your LAN with no authentication required. That’s a use case for the app not requiring a password.
No way! Excited to use this, I hope it works with my last.fm plugin though.
You set scrobbling on the server, so whatever you listen to through Plex will work regardless of the app.
I haven’t used Last.FM since like 2010. If you’re using this with Plex, could you tell me the benefits?
Last.fm is just a way to track what you listen to, and get recommendations off of it. The recommendations are actually pretty good, which is why I bother with it. You set it up on your Plex server, so it’s pretty much fire and forget.
Gotcha. Thanks!
Aye, I have it set up on my server but haven’t used plexamp before so I was just unsure. Works as expected :)
Bruhhh i just switched to finamp and jellyfin server😭. Plexamp is just 100 times better
give symfonium a try
I’ve been testing music servers lately so this is perfect timing!
Love Plex Amp for it’s integration with my Plex server, but the fact it does not read star ratings in ID3 tags really hurts.
Lies! Proprietary software is never “free,” even if the price is $0.
If anything, the correct word to describe it is “worthless.”
Stop complaining and if you want open source so bad make it. I am hardcore open source advocate but you are going beyond , they are giving out for free.
Whatever dude its definitely the best android music player especially if you use Plex already.
I didn’t know it was not free, I have a lifetime Plex Pass subscription and I kinda always knew it was there… Although I don’t use it because Spotify.
Wonder how Plex justified making it free. Baked-in analytics?
Put some of the nice features behind a paywall
They might be losing free users to Jellyfin, Emby, etc?
Probably. Jellyfin also has a music version of the app similar to plex amp.
Honestly I have been considering making the switch.
I didn’t know Jellyfin had a music version. Is it not on Play Store?
Edit: Oh, I found it on F-droid. It’s called Boum. It is on Play Store too it just doesn’t show up when you search for jellyfin.
I think it’s called finamp
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unicornsonlsd.finamp&hl=en_US&gl=US
There’s one called fintunes too.
One of them is Finamp. I think there might be more. The normal players (the official one and Findroid) also play music just fine FWIW.
Open source
Paid
This is exactly the news I needed today. I have been playing with the idea of using Funkwhale or Ampache, but couldn’t bring myself to self host another media system knowing that Plex could theoretically do it. The regular Plex app sucks so hard for music tho, this is gonna solve my issue I think.
Plex Amp? Nah. Hauling 8 pounds of CD’s to work everyday? Yeah.
Lol I wonder what your job is?
I love plex amp. The built in radio is great. Just wish there were either more genres or fewer “styles”
I’m glad to see there is now a free version of Plex Amp. This is, by far, my favorite way to stream my music library.