Connecting to a playlist on plexamp headless Pi via multiple devices at once

Plex Labs
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Hi.
Background Use Scenario:
I’ve been running a pi with plexamp for music in our studio for a long while and its awesome.
My Wife and I work together and both sign in to the same Plex account so we can start a playlist playing on the pi and control it from our devices.

It used to be that at any time I could connect to the pi via cast on my device plexamp and control the current playing playlist, no matter what had been playing on my device plexamp, once connected i was controlling the current queue/playlist on the Pi.
This would would no matter who had started the playlist or even if we’d started it direct from the Pi, as my pi ‘headless’ has a 7" touchscreen. :roll_eyes:

My Problem:
However a few months ago a change was made. Now when I cast from my device plexamp to the headless, if there had been something playing on the device plexamp, the cast dialog has a “confirm” and “cancel” options.

Since this change when I connect my device plexamp to the pi plexamp, if something is playing on the device, the “confirm” option changes whats playing on the pi to what is playing on my device.

This makes some sense, hence the “confirm”, yet as there is no way to stop playback so as to not be playing anything on plexamp, I can no longer control the existing currently playing playlist\queue on the pi.

How:
Sometimes when I open plexamp on my device there is nothing playing but I have no idea how to get to this state. I’ve tried opening and closing the app, disconnecting and reconnecting from wifi etc. What am I missing?

Can anybody PLEASE suggest how to clear plexamp so nothing is currently playing?

Otherwise surely we need two options on the cast dialog if something is playing on the device. One option to cast what is playing on the device to the pi and another to control what is currently playing on the Pi.

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Hold down the pause button to stop and clear queue.

The confirm button was added to allow confirmation for an action which was destructive (overriding playback). No other behavior was changed.

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Thanks so much Elan. it Works a treat. was lost without a way to stop playback

Cool. Now i know the secret UI am I in the inner circle?

…but the cast definitely connects differently than it used to…maybe because we both sign into the same account? one iphone one android. Been using plexamp and headless daily ever since they were born. :grinning:

Is there a better way for multiple devices to controll the same headless pi playlist?

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casting when something was playing locally has always replaced the remote player :sweat_smile:

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…well maybe the currently playing track cleared itself somehow previously, even though I had no idea holding pause was stop. We never experienced it untill a few months back

Another thing we have experienced recently while using plexamp. On iphone when the volume is changed while in another app if you have been casting, the headless volume changes. This could well be an iOs change but it didnt used to happen and if my wife goes out of the studio (where the headless is playing) and watches for example YT or FB and adjusts the volume, the headless volume changes in the studio. We have tested multiple scenarios and this is Def a thing Now.
It cant be replicated on Android.

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Disable Settings > Device > Remote Control > Use Hardware Volume.

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Thankyou

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