Can we assume it’s coming? I’ve been a little disappointed with the standard Plex music interface on my NVidia Shield and I was hoping there would be an easy way to sideload Plexamp. Can we get a link to an akp for early adopters?
What I really want is to not have to turn on my TV at all to play music. IE: Remote control of the Plex player on the NVidia shield via my phone, and music comes out of the AV speakers. I suspect that’s a little more work. Chromecast might work here, assuming you could pass the stream description along.
Yes, in the least, Chromecast would be a very welcome addition to Plexamp, especially since it has far superior radio / mix features as compared to the iOS / Android Plex apps.
I share the enthusiasm for plexamp functionality on Android TV. If not the app, at least Chromecast like the mobile Plex app. The best speakers in my house are in my entertainment system (I assume I’m not alone in this), so that is where I prefer to listen to my music. Plexamp is a much better music player than standalone Plex.
Sideloaded and ran correctly, but I couldn’t figure out how to get the visualization to work on either the Shield or my Phone. Is there full screen visualization?
Honestly, I’m not sure it’s worth the trouble, but you need a couple of things:
A mechanism to sideload APK files (X-plore + a SMB share)
A mechanism to launch sideloaded apps (Sideload Launcher)
A mechanism to force Android landscape mode (Set Orientation)
A mechanism to install APKM files (APKMirror Install)
Nvidia Shield TV installed on your phone (or some sort of keyboard/mouse setup) for UI input
Install X-plore and Sideload Launcher from the Google store if you haven’t already. Give X-plore permissions to install unsigned apps
Download apk for APKMirror and Set Orientation from apkmirror.com. Put them on your SMB share.
Use X-plore to open the apk files on your SMB share and install the apps. Give APKMirror permission to install unsigned apps
Use slideload launcher to launch APKMirror
Find and install Plexamp from APKMirror
Use the Trackpad feature of NVidia Sheild app to manipulate the UI of Plexamp.
I seem to remember I couldn’t paste my password into NVidia keyboard from LastPass, which made getting it setup a little painful, but I finally got there and was able to play music. Not sure it was worth the trouble. Thinking the cast solution is what I really want. That way I don’t even need to turn my TV on. I just want the music coming out of the Shield.
Cast will be great as long as it supports Smooth Fades and Volume Normalisation, which it currently doesn’t (when casting from Plex for Android, for instance). This is a different issue to why Plex for Android TV doesn’t support those features natively (given that it’s exactly the same APK, installing on fundamentally the same OS) as Chromecast works by handing off the playing to a client actually running on the Chromecast device and that doesn’t handle the goodiez yet. (Correct me if I’m wrong Elan, please.)
