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” […]

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

  • American_Jesus@lemm.eeEnglish
    41·
    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

  • uglytruck@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 year ago

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

    • derekvof@beehaw.org
      0·
      1 year ago

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

      • LimitedDuck@septic.winEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • jeebs@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.winEnglish
        1·
        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.

  • twistedtxb@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

      • twistedtxb@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

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

        • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          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.caEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            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.worldEnglish
              1·
              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.