I am currently using Volumio to play my Plex music database thru a Pi built into a puropse designed box that plugs into my aux port of my ancient Luxman stereo receiver. I could have used something simpler but it was a fun project. It even has a touch screen and remote.
Based on the 4.0 update posted today, Plexamp on the Raspi is coming. This update made the under-hood changes necessary to get it working as I understand things.
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Correct, weāve unlocked the biggest bit of missing infrastructure to allow us to make progress on this. Headless release will still take some work, just to set expectations.
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Thanks for the update, Elan.
Thanks @elan! Congrats on the V4 release.
Will remote control of V4 use the same HTTP api as other players? Any new additions? Also, any chance of getting a comprehensive, current, document on the API anywhere? Iāve spent a lot of time with wire shark and mocking things up via the 3rd party python plex API to get control working from a high end control platform. It would be so much easier to integrate Plex into these things if there was any good API documentation available.
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Same HTTP API; likely extensions will appear for e.g. Auto Play.
How does adding remote control allow you to get rid of Roon? Does plexamp somehow allow different streams to different speakers like Roon does? Not sure how it worksā¦
This is an incredible milestone! Thanks for a super releaseā¦ currently controlling my Plexamp on the desktop from my phone :)))
Looking forward to seeing the headless version, but for nowā¦ perhaps a little DAC attaced to an old Android phone could work as in interim solution!?
Attaching a DAC to Android isnāt going to give you the results youāre looking for as taking advantage of it requires a custom USB driver. However, this would work on iOS.
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Iāve been playing with it semi-headless, by just running it on my HTPC, and remote controlling it as needed. Itās a pretty good experience. Itās much better/more reliable than using the Chromecast in my surround receiver. For my household the biggest hurdle would be the lack of multi user options, as my wife wasnāt able to pause the music, or play her own when it is logged in as me. When that is solved it will be truly great as a player imo.
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Nice to see some progress on this 
Main reason for this would be running a headless PlexAmp Client on HiFiBerry. Currently experimenting with it, basically does everything I need in one single package except for direct PlexAmp streaming. Hope you guys can work together with those guys to maybe get an official implementation going!
hello @elan .
Does this v4 may also be a good sign for upnp streaming. Like many, i do have a upnp amp / player and could avoid using a third party raspberry to stream HD directly to it.
It s a long awaited feature, and i m begining to hope this could be come also soon :s ?
But you canāt select the Volumio as a streaming target from within plex/plexamp, right?
Right. just using it to play my folders in Plex on a non Bluetooth enabled old stereo. I would love to just have Plexamp on my PI.
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I too would love to just have plexamp on my pi. It looks like there are a number of methods for doing so with different outcomesāIāve been waiting patiently for a version that works natively on the piā¦ and itās feeling closer than ever. I hope Iām not misreading this thread.
Iāve tried the embedded plex client, rasplex, and now volumio, and each has their own problems.
Yes, all the examples I have tried failed at one point or another in the install method. Primarily, Iām sure, by my incomplete understanding of the Pi and terminal method of doing some installs. Although my Pis, I have 2, have Volumio on one and the other has Pi-Hole on the other and both installed and worked just fine.
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Yes yes yes! Today I found out that it is now possible to control Plexamp via the Plex app and web players. Tis is really fantastic as it enables to use the gapless playback Plexamp offers. Many thanks to the team @elan. Appreciate the teamās work and dedication to the audio side of Plex. Great stuff. which makes me very happy.
The next step that I would live to see is Plexamp to support ASIO-drivers to bypass the Windows resampling process, so that all files are being played as they are, and not resampled to the Windows configuration set sample rate. (as itās no fun adjusting that sample rate by hand everytime on a headless system).
Is there as of now a version of the 4.x player that can run on a PI with GUI?
On the official website there is only an AppImage for x64 which of course can not run on the x32 bit PIs.
As long as the headless version is not released I would be happy to have it just running on a semi-headless mode (just with no screen attached)
No, RPi is arm architecture and there will only by a headless 64 bit release - Plexamp - headless on a pi - oled screen compatibility? - #8 by elan
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Oh, just realized that there is actually a x64 OS for most Raspberry PI 4s. I somehow thought that the processors were still stuck at x86ā¦
