Are there any alternatives to PlexAmp that have the features missing from both apps? I’ve spent the past year ripping all my CDs and Vinyls and I just want an app for android that I can use to listen to my music on the go. Currently I have around 17,500 songs spread over around 1,000 albums and this is apparently for either app to handle.
I need to be able to download my music onto portable devices like my phone and tablet without the arbitrary limit of 24 hours sent by PlexAmp or without the app juttering, freezing or skipping songs like on Plex.
I’d like to be able to set custom art for each playlist rather than have the random cover art for 4 albums.
I’d like to be able to sort playlists by artist, album, title or length so it’s easier to edit them. This is currently impossible on PlexAmp and in Plex I need to scroll to where I added a song in order to remove, quite laborious when a playlist has 500+ songs
Essentially want everything Spotify does, but with my own library. I purchased a liftime Plex Pass because I thought PlexAmp could replace Spotify but I was mistaken on what the app actually offers. Ideally I’d want an app I can purchased a lifetime membership for rather than a subscription based one.
MediaMonkey? I do not know if it has everything you want but it is what I use for my audiobooks.
Also on Android I usually simply place the files in memory or on an SD card and use Simple ABP to play them. I find artwork and most other metadata unimportant for audio files. I listen to audio I do not watch it.
BTW: If DLNA is enabled in Plex or Emby MediaMonkey can access the server and play files directly from there.
sounds like you need a music player that can play LOCAL music files stored on your phone, like maybe VLC, or thousands of other android music apps intended for local music playback.
Plex is primarily intended for STREAMING from your home server. Sure, various clients have some level of caching/sync/download in order to work across short term connection interruptions, but entirely offline play of your entire collection (music or video), is not the point.
as far as plexamp audio issues, have you tried changing the audio engine in the settings ? some phones work better with one than the other.
not aware of any music app that does that
to each their own, but trying to edit playlists on a mobile device sounds like torture to me. You could use Plex Web but that won’t help if you want to do it ‘on the go’.
Perhaps you should have used a free trial or even a single 1 month subscription before committing to a lifetime pass for something you weren’t sure of ?
I don’t know what the time limit is, but if you want to request a refund, see @ Contact | Plex
The condescending tone doesn’t really help, I’m well aware of what Plex is for having been using it for the past 4 years. I’m asking for suggestions for other users who may be in a similar position to me, not for you to berate me for daring to suggest that I’m not happy with Plex.
Almost every single music player out there, from Deezer to Spotify is mainly for streaming your content but still offers a way to listen to it offline. You cannot argue that the point of Plex isn’t to download your content when the sync option is available on the Plex app but has an arbitrary limit on PlexApp.
As for custom art, Spotify allows you to set whatever art you want for each playlist. A feature that, amongst others, has been on the request list for years. Plex Web also doesn’t allow you to edit playlists other than removing items. Sorting playlists makes editing them easier, both on web and app versions of plex, but this is also a feature that has been requested for 5 years I believe.
I wasn’t trying to be condescending, sorry if that is how it came across.
Likewise, I interpreted your comment as one who had just recently started using plex without understanding its primary purpose as a client/server streaming platform, my misunderstanding.
As already stated, and Plexamp in particular, is not intended to be used as a “download huge amounts and play offline” type player.
Whether or not the 24 hour limit gets improved or removed is not up to me, and you certainly aren’t the first or only person to dislike that limit.
Understood that you can’t sort static playlists in plex web, but you can still drag and drop to rearrange the tracks, and add/remove as desired.
You can create auto filters/auto-playlists that can be sorted in various ways.
I would also recommend checking out the Plexamp radios and mix builder features, to me they can be a better alternative than micromanaging playlists.
