I just took PlexAmp for a spin and while I’m enjoying it I would really love to be able to browse my music library in some capacity, at a minimum get a list of artists so I can jump to the albums and play one.
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Hi @Ashex, you can browse artists and albums alphabetically by opening “Recently Added Music” from the home page, and using the context menu at the top right to adjust the sort, as below 
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Ah ha! I didn’t realize I could change the sort that way! Thanks for pointing that out 
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I did that as well but it won’t save the setting, when I go back, it still shows “Recent Plays - Recently Added Music - Stations, etc.”
I believe that the Library Artist/Album/Genre, etc should be in the main window and then followed by recent plays, recently added etc… As me and many users from what I see, mainly browse by artist and album.
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Great! I was kinda sad i couldn’t browse by artist but this is a great solution. Thanks!
I really don’t understand why you need to do 5 clicks to simply browse artists or albums, seems totally broken to me
Browsing your library should be directly accessible, i don’t understand why the hell it is not the case?
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i know its not the same as direct library browsing, but try search + mix builder
plexamp is streamlined for play and go
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Here’s the issue for me. This browsing feature was intentionally left out of PlexAmp, but the music player in the main Plex app is so unreliable for me (and others). I have to run a parallel media streaming solution just for music. It’s incredibly frustrating to me that Plex has two music streaming solutions and neither can reliably do what some non-trivial percentage of it’s user base seems to want. I don’t understand the logic of that.
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if you give the search and mixbuilder a chance, I think folks will find less of a need to ‘browse’.
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I thought the same thing when starting with Plexamp, but after a couple days, I no longer missed browsing by artist/album. It’s just a different approach and now I prefer it.
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mixbuilder = less browsing, more listening
Agreed, people need to give it a go. Works really well.
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Agreed, I used to be a habitual library browser, but now I’m finding a combination of mixes and searching in Plexamp is faster and more fun
You can always use the web version if you want a full-on browsing experience, with all the extra display and filtering options. I appreciate how streamlined Plexamp is.
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Hi @henrysingleton - you mentioned using the web version. Is there a Plex web client that has a reasonable mobile experience? I’m only familiar with the web client that loads up like it’s in a desktop browser where I’m always pinch zooming and fumbling around.
I hear a lot of love for the new experience, which is great. At the risk of getting into esoteric territory, the new experience sort of presupposes that I actually know what I want to listen to. I’m a person who does the equivalent of stepping up to his alphabetized record collection and flipping through until something jumps out at me. Often, I’ll have no idea that I want to listen to 70s rock or music related to such and such.
Maybe I’m a fossil. I still tend to buy albums, not songs too, and that’s less common these days as well.
I’m just not sold. Having a lifetime PlexPass subscription but still needing to run a container with subsonic on my Plex server so I can easily scroll through my collection to discover what I’m in the mood for is disheartening. I’m not interested in using an app that seems to frequently forget it’s playing music and become uncontrollable (main Plex app) or trying to manipulate a desktop browser experience on my mobile phone. Also not interested in randomly listening to a bunch of stuff I’m not in the mood for while I look for something that jumps out at me.
It just seems like the basics have been neglected here. I guess others would argue that what constitutes “the basics” has changed.
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Totally agree with GRV68. When I want to listen to an album I want to listen to the album as is, rather than a random selections of songs that I might like in context but not just thrown at me in dribs & drabs. Why would you want to listen to one track from the middle of an opera for example?
I feel a simple browsing is the minium one should expect from music player, rather than have to go searching under ‘Recently Added’ for something I have owned for ten years!
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But having to search pre-supposes I know what I want tolisten to, when generally I don’t!
Browsing your entire library will be coming to the app.
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+1 for browsing. I do not make mixes or listen to singles, i listen to CD’s. So this is a better looking yet worse functioning plex app for music, for me anyways.
This may be piling on some requests but, If it could do fast artist > album browse/select, android auto, & actually be able to resume playback when restarted/reconnected to android auto it could be the gold standard music app.
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you can search faster than scrolling through hundreds/thousands of artists.
also, use mix builder, try it, you might even LOVE it.
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Not sure what you are talking about with songs vs albums? I’m also an album listener and PlexAmp works totally fine for that method of listening. In fact it seems more tailored for this since it always shows me full albums which it will play with one click, rather than individual songs.
@grv68 have you tried the Plex app on mobile? It has quite a nice interface and I use it for browsing music. There is also Prism on iOS (not sure about Android) which works quite well and its focused totally on music.
Just wanted to point this out since having the Plex backend gives you a lot of options for viewing your library, and having PlexAmp hasn’t taken any of this away; its just yet another optional way to enjoy your library
