Beta for the new Audio Player on the Android mobile

Plex Players Player Betas
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We have enabled a new audio player for the current Android beta. It has a sweet new UI and some neato enhancements under the hood which improve performance.

If you are on the current beta (7.8.xxxx), restarting the app and playing some tunes or Podcasts should give you the new experience.

Please drop your feedback and bug reports in the comments of this thread.

Known issues:

  • Possible to end up with multiple notifications
  • Possible to end up with multiple spinners
  • Sweet fades potentially not always working
  • Synced tracks are not respecting the “Prefer synced content” setting
  • Bitrate not visible in song info Fixed in beta
  • Inline button control not working as expected when not in player screen (Double press cant go from last to first song in queue (with Repeat all))
  • Chromecast doesn’t always proceed in play queue Receiver bug which should be fixed soon
  • Music player doesn’t always respect audio focus
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Woohoo! Gapless playback is here! It worked for me on a couple flac files I tested when direct playing, but I noticed some bugginess when transcoding down to 192kbps MP3. Looking forward to this working all around!

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@gineer what bugginess did you notice?

We’d like to try and fix it while it’s in beta.

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To my ear, it sounds like the count-in (negative playback time) on the next item is being skipped. I can send sample files later if you’d like to confirm. I’m using Pink Floyd’s “Happiest Days Of Our Lives” to “Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2” for reference.

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@SamFromPlex yeeesssss!! Freaking beautiful! Fixes so many UI things (especially the album art) and thanks for gapless!!

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Also, @SamFromPlex , not to be off-topic from reporting bugs, but, I have a question about how gapless works in this player. It looks like it may be caching a couple songs after and/or before the current song. Would you be willing to describe how this all works? Also, the new player is Treble? What was the old player? Is Treble cross-platform, or Android specific?

I’m just curious how this works =D Thanks!

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@marcjt I can’t really answer any of those questions right now, more information will be available soon

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@SamFromPlex One other thing: I just noticed that lyrics are missing as well (in case this wasn’t already known).

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Okay, one more now that I have some time to test at home: if I use a voice command to play a song, Plex crashes even though the music starts to play. I sent logs through the app for the issue.

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Lyrics are in the pop out menu/overflow to the bottom right

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Hey, I just noticed… it seems that the playback speed controls are gone?

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Hey, I just noticed… it seems that the playback speed controls are gone?

They are still available for Podcasts last time I checked?

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You are right… however, that doesn’t help with playing my audiobooks (classified as music) at a speed >/< 1 … Can we get this back, please? Unless, we are going to have a native audiobook library option, as well. :wink:

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I checked on that, it was removed it intentionally for music playback.

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Unintentionally or intentionally? Thanks for getting back to me quickly! =)

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Intentionally, but it is back under discussion again now :smile:

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Just to clarify, we transcode to Opus when we need to, which is a far superior codec than MP3 at the same bitrate. We’re really shooting to be best-in-class here :slight_smile:

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  • We cache current and next (and previously played, to a degree).
  • The internal name of the new player is TREBLE.
  • The old player basically just sat on top of what Android had to offer (possibly ExoPlayer).
  • TREBLE is cross-platform.

Thanks for checking it out, and for your curiosity!

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That’s awesome! Then I might as well drop down to 128kbps since transparency should handily be achieved at that bitrate :slight_smile:

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