Is there any way to sync to an external drive on android/ios with plexamp? I think this is possible with the regular plex app but can’t find anything for plexamp. Currently I am converting all my beautiful flac files to 320kbps due to storage issues. It would be great if there were a way to sync to an external drive connected to my android device.
I believe you can manipulate the sync/download location on Android (mobile). There’s no such option on iOS with the regular app. Also no such option on Plexamp.
I have a similar thread going on reddit and learned that some folks don’t see the option. I have a pixel 3 running plexamp 3.5.0 and the option is simply missing. My buddy with pixel 4 also doesn’t have the option. However, some reddit users are showing me screenshots of their android phones on 3.5.0 showing that option.
Device specific issue?
What phones does this option work on?
I was talking about the regular/classic Plex app on the Android. As far as I know, there’s no such option for Plexamp at all.
It’s definitely been added in a recent update. It should look like this: Imgur: The magic of the Internet
It seems like the option may only appear with an SD card inserted.
Can anyone else let me know what phone they are using if they indeed have this option?
Yes, as far as Android is concerned, you can sync to an installed external SD Card or perhaps as someone has pointed out, you may be able to use another external storage device (actual SSD or external hard drive) but it may be device hardware or manufacturer dependent/feature. However there are some limitations to using PlexAmp, regardless of using internal or external storage usage.
Currently, the PlexAmp app itself can operate on the devices internal storage with maintaining its database under the devices internal Android app data folder while also moving all audio files and it’s own related files to the external SD card storage in a duplicated folder structure on the SD card. The PlexAmp app does not send or share any audio files into any other directory and is only found under the PlexAmp app folder.
Where this becomes a real PITA for external SD card users, is that if the SD card were to fail or if you needed to swap cards, or if the PlexAmp app has gone through a horrible update and you have synced and downloaded hours of playlist, PlexAmp will have to be reset to download all previous playlists and files all over again. You simply can’t just swap SD cards or external hard drives even if you were capable. The audio files downloaded, regardless of being stored internally or externally actually inflate the PlexAmp app itself as it’s the only app capable of reading the download synced files to prohibit file sharing.
This can be time consuming and is frustrating when you might think swapping SD cards or external storage will bring PlexAmp and it’s previous state back to life with no re-syncing/re-downloading required. It won’t.
The worst is when PlexAmp gets updated and includes fixes to internal and external storage and requires a full uninstall of PlexAmp and all the audio files need to be trashed along with the uninstall because those same audio files are considered PlexAmp app files and can’t be saved elsewhere in a different directory.
If you don’t think you’ll be bothered by this, I suppose carry on but some of us PlexAmp users have been testing this out since its launch, but I still have to advocate that PlexAmp is good enough for daily use. I just hope more adjustments and refinement make it to storage usage or allowing audio files to be stored separately in its own PlexAmp Audio folder that can be proprietary but easily read by PlexAmp if both the app and the separate PlexAmp audio folder have their tokens match. It would save some of us time and cell data.
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