Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.
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
The app is great! But if you’re used to micromanage you songs, you gonna have a bad time.
I always put my music through MusicBrainz Picard, have had 0 issues with plex picking stuff up
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 :/.
Aside from having visualizers, how is this at all like Winamp?
Yeah, this doesn’t quite whip the llama’s ass. The only obvious resemblance / possible inspiration I see is the name? …which is kind of… eh…
“Has visualizations”
So did Windows Media Player, plus Plexamp’s just can’t compare to Milkdrop
Aah, MilkDrop, nothing comes even close. I still stay on the 32-bit version of foobar2000 to be able to run MilkDrop with it since the plug-in that makes it possible hasn’t been updated.
And yeah, what an empty statement again, sure seems like drawing the comparison was 100% for clickbait’s sake.
I heard about this yesterday and I downloaded the plexamp app on my windows desktop to try it. When I ran it, the first thing it had me do was sign into it with my plex account. It then tossed an error at me telling me that I need to subscribe to plex pass to use it. I don’t understand the “free” part about this plexamp going free announcement.
Maybe there needs to be a server side update on plex’s part or something.
I had the same assumption. Or maybe nobody uses the windows version, lol. I did a Google search and checked the plex forums, nobody was talking about the issue. I just sort of walked away after that.
Still, very odd to make an announcement that’s literally not true. Gotta be something weird on my end I guess?
Wow, just in time as the new owners of Winamp release their app.
It’s not the same team that made it back in the day but the team who has the copyright is working on one.
Honestly, I’m not holding high hopes for this thing at all. Feels like it’s just some rando company puppeteering Winamp’s corpse around for the brand recognition and nothing else.
Eh, I like Plexamp’s features, but the app is not exactly free, more “freemium.” All the compelling features that you’d want to use it for are behind the subscription paywall. DJ, track and album radio, the unique features aren’t free.
Also, at least on iOS the app feels clunky and sluggish with long delays when skipping, scrubbing, playing, and pausing. (EDIT - turns out this is specifically an issue when using Airplay, it’s fine for local playback).
My wife uses Plexamp on desktop (Mac and PC) and it seems good there. I personally tend to use the WiiM app for Wiim mini with Asset UPnP server.
