Future of Plexamp on Raspberry Pi?

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Feel free to hit me up if you need testers.
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I have a fairly big collection ranging from mp3 bootlegs up to 24/192 kHz FLACs (the majority being FLAC CD rips) to test with my Raspberry Pi 4B + HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro.

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This is absolutely wonderful news!
I was following this thread for so long just hoping for an update like this.
Iā€™m looking to replace the headless mpd/ALSA setup with Plexamp for quite a while now.
I would also be interested, if possbile, to get access to a beta build and help test it.
I have a Pi4 with a HiFiBerry Digi2 Pro board hooked to an external DAC.

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Just set up my PLEX for Music, and have been using Plexamp for only a week now, but loving it.

Just started looking into running Plexamp on my Pi4 (which hosts my Plex Server) and I found this Topic (great timingšŸ˜€)

Iā€™m looking to use the Pi4 BT to stream to my BT Speakers (wonā€™t be using a DAC)

If you need testers, hit me up as well.

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Might be easier to stream Plexamp BT from your phone to your speakers

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Iā€™m thinking that if I can have plexamp on the Pi sending the stream to the BT speaker that it will save on the battery drain on the iPhone, and Iā€™ll still be able to control the player via the cast icon on the iPhone plexampā€¦ā€¦.or maybe Iā€™m just really off-base with this line of thought :slightly_smiling_face:

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Youā€™re not totally off-base. The nice thing about headless Plexamp is it handles all the streaming directly from the server, as opposed to Bluetooth or AirPlay which route the audio server ā‡¢ iOS device ā‡¢ AirPlay/BT target.

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Perfect! :sunglasses:

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I think most of us on this thread have that as a setup. Worked just OK back in the day, looking real forward to the progress on this new version to hopefully ā€œjust workā€. When it does work, sounds so much better on my hi-fi speakers than my AVR.

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I have the Justboom DAC Hat on a Pi 3B+ straight into a DIY gainclone power ampā€¦Been working great with Plexamp Pi for over a yearā€¦ thenā€¦

QUESTION: Did everybody else who runs Plexamp on PI also have it stop working in March this year or is that just me???. Otto implied it stopped working but i saw no threads about it and i didnt know how to troubleshoot it

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406 error code trying to find service. So, yep.

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At this point, should the old Pi v2.0 beta 2 still be pinned?
(I was tempted to use those instructions until I found this thread)

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Looking forward to the Rpi release. I am going to test with an Allo Boss2 Hat.

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Awesome! Can hardly wait. Now if I could only get my hands on a Pi. Any Pi, I have an old 3B I can use. soooo looking forward to this. Thank you thank you. Willing to test on older Pi3B+ if you need it.

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I think not (unpinned).

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Would it be possible to extract audio from the hdmi of the Pi? Or is this strictly going to be a hat or nothing situation?

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Itā€™s using ALSA under the hood, so I expect so.

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cool, Ill test it out when the time comes. Could be useful for some specific use cases. Thank you thank you. If you are gonna pull all nighters coding, order the pizza before the shop closes. :slight_smile:

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Look, can everyone stop replying so Elan can get this released ? :rofl:

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OK, ready to have some fun?

  1. Make sure you have a 64-bit capable Raspberry Pi and node 12 installed (v12.22.4 over here).

  2. Download the beta at https://plexamp.plex.tv/headless/Plexamp-Linux-arm64-v4.2.2-beta.1c.tar.bz2

  3. Extract in the pi home directory.

  4. Run from terminal to start (and ignore anything which is printed after you enter the code):

pi@audio-kitchen:~/plexamp $ node js/index.js
Starting Plexamp.
Please visit https://plex.tv/claim and enter the claim token:

  1. You should now be able to hit http://<ip.of.pi>:32500 from a browser and get the Plexamp UI (youā€™ll need to sign in again in the browser, otherwise it would be a security risk). When you change player/cache settings, youā€™re changing the Pi settings. When you change UI settings, youā€™re changing app/browser settings. Play some music! Or control it from any other instance of Plexamp. (The browser portion was mostly for free and seemed cool and useful, but there are definitely things to fix up in there.)

  2. Install the Plexamp service if you feel like having it start on boot (and why wouldnā€™t you?). CTRL-C out of the foreground running Plexamp and do this:

$ sudo cp plexamp.service /lib/systemd/system/
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable plexamp
$ sudo systemctl start plexamp

Congratulations, youā€™re now running the latest and most advanced version of Plexamp on your Pi! :sun_with_face: If youā€™re into Hi-Res audio, make sure to enable sample rate matching, and pretend you can hear the difference.

As I think I said before, Iā€™ve only tested with a PiFi Digi+ board, which you can get super cheaply online, e.g. here. This provides optical/digital outputs, which is what I was looking for. Iā€™ve additionally made some tweaks so that itā€™s the default audio output.

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Thanks!