Server Version#:10.24.0.2257 Player Version#:4.11.2 I am experiencing excessive data usage. This has been an ongoing issue since June/July. This morning the app consumed 565mb of data in under 10 minutes (approximately 3-4 songs were played). No songs were skipped or tracked. I have the followin…

Elan will want to see your logs, see if you can grab them.

141105886959236.zip (921.5 KB) Thanks for the heads up! Posting them below. @elan Here are all the logs I could pull from plexamp. Plexamp.1.log is from today and starts from when I started streaming via android auto. this was my first android based activity with plexamp today. Plexamp.2.log cov…

Just a small update on this. I noticed that my Plex server had some configuration issues and was running through the relay resulting in indirect playback. I got excited as I thought that may have been what is causing the data usage issues I’m seeing. Fixed that up and went for a drive this morning.…

@elan would you rather logs get uploaded as raw files or are the zip files I’m uploading ok for you to work with?

Pretty sure this will be fixed in the next release.

That’s great news! I’ll keep an eye out for it and be sure to test. Thanks

Hi everyone, I’m having the same issue. I have FLAC files on my server, and want them to convert to MP3s at 320k when I am streaming remotely (ie not on wifi). No matter what settings I use in plexamp, plex media server etc it never transcdes. Files are only ever played at full quality, which uses…

Excessive data usage by plexamp

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elan January 14, 2025, 5:59am 9

The bug was fixed in the latest release of Plexamp. If you’re having trouble, reproduce and then post Plexamp logs here.

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