# Music streaming quality?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [January 21, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737 "2017-01-21T16:50:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@richardhanney](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardhanney)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/1 "2017-01-21T16:50:40Z")
Hi,
Looked around a lot but can’t find the answer? Is there any way on the plex android app of setting the music streaming quality? I know the video is.
I would like to make sure the music streams as high a quality as possible.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@NP-Plex\_UK](https://forums.plex.tv/u/NP-Plex_UK)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/2 "2017-01-22T16:21:06Z")
I’d like to know this too. So far I have managed to get awesome performance from the Plex add on to KODI. Using PMP is definitely inferior to this in two-channel. When using PMP, my DAC shows that Plex is outputting the right stream but I am not convinced that is not being transcoded. The Windows driver is WASAPI capable and the DAC is capable of all resolutions up 192 and DoP but I think that files are not bit perfect.
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### Author:  [@tij](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tij)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/3 "2017-01-22T20:12:04Z")
> @richardhanney said:
> Hi,
>
> Looked around a lot but can’t find the answer? Is there any way on the plex android app of setting the music streaming quality? I know the video is.
>
> I would like to make sure the music streams as high a quality as possible.
>
> Thanks.
think in setting/advance/remote audio quality (can choose original and bitrates)
also allow DirectPlay and DirectStream
note that you can play original quality only with flac on android … alac ape get transcoded to mp3 as android dont support it natively
if music is important to you please vote for following features (put like on first post to cast vote)
Transcode lossless unsuported format for device to lossless format that device support (eg transcode flac to alac when playing to ipad)
[https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/77165/feature-request-convert-between-lossless-audio-formats/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/77165/feature-request-convert-between-lossless-audio-formats/p1)
Support cue
[https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152391/cue-support-for-flac-files/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152391/cue-support-for-flac-files/p1)
Support gapless playback
[https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/55046/popular-gapless-playback/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/55046/popular-gapless-playback/p1)
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### Author:  [@tij](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tij)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/4 "2017-01-22T20:23:35Z")
> @NP-Plex:UK said:
> I’d like to know this too. So far I have managed to get awesome performance from the Plex add on to KODI. Using PMP is definitely inferior to this in two-channel. When using PMP, my DAC shows that Plex is outputting the right stream but I am not convinced that is not being transcoded. The Windows driver is WASAPI capable and the DAC is capable of all resolutions up 192 and DoP but I think that files are not bit perfect.
we only know what they tell us lol
you can tell what PMS is doing by using plex web … click on Status … Now Playing
it will show whats playing now … if you hover mouse over playing icon and click on “i” … it will tell you what PMS is doing
for example when playing flac to iphone it will say “transcoding (aac)”
if it say DirectPlay or DirectStream … stream supposed to be bit perfect … but i remember someone told me that PMP will upsample/downsample received stream to local system setting (aka it does not switch local hardware samplerate/bit depth to match received stream) … so if your system is set to 24/96 … and stream comes 16/44.1 … streams get upsampled … as i understand it
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### Author:  [@richardhanney](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardhanney)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/5 "2017-01-24T19:28:34Z")
> @tij said:
>
> > @richardhanney said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Looked around a lot but can’t find the answer? Is there any way on the plex android app of setting the music streaming quality? I know the video is.
> >
> > I would like to make sure the music streams as high a quality as possible.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> think in setting/advance/remote audio quality (can choose original and bitrates)
>
> also allow DirectPlay and DirectStream
>
> note that you can play original quality only with flac on android … alac ape get transcoded to mp3 as android dont support it natively
>
> if music is important to you please vote for following features (put like on first post to cast vote)
>
> Transcode lossless unsuported format for device to lossless format that device support (eg transcode flac to alac when playing to ipad)
> [https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/77165/feature-request-convert-between-lossless-audio-formats/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/77165/feature-request-convert-between-lossless-audio-formats/p1)
>
> Support cue
> [https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152391/cue-support-for-flac-files/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152391/cue-support-for-flac-files/p1)
>
> Support gapless playback
> [https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/55046/popular-gapless-playback/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/55046/popular-gapless-playback/p1)
I can’t see any options for remote quality. There are options for video playback but nothing on audio only.
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### Author:  [@richardhanney](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardhanney)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/6 "2017-02-04T19:28:35Z")
Any other ideas?
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### Author:  [@richardhanney](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardhanney)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/7 "2017-02-04T19:29:08Z")
I can’t be the only person with an android phone who has asked is their streaming quality controls for music.
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### Author:  [@tij](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tij)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/8 "2017-03-24T06:03:14Z")
could not find that setting on my Android too 😕 … it is available on ios though
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### Author:  [@richardhanney](https://forums.plex.tv/u/richardhanney)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/9 "2017-03-25T16:47:18Z")
Yeah, I’m Android :neutral:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-streaming-quality/176737/10 "2020-01-07T22:37:31Z")