Hey, fantastic app. It’s now my go to for music. Sweet fades are beyond cool… The shuffle is also fantastic. I’d like to suggest the following though.
After an album has finished, have an option to continue playing with ‘artist radio’ or similar. Especially while driving, this would be helpful.
The ability to reorganise the ‘up next’ playlist. A long press or hamburger bar are really useful in other music apps to bring a song up or down the list.
The ability to search by folder under all music, the native app allows this.
Chromecast support.
Please don’t think I’m complaining, I’m actually loving this app. Just suggesting things to make it INCREDIBLE. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the speedy reply! Can’t wait for these new features!
(PS, some of us weirdos do love folder setup, haven’t found a good workaround yet. Sorting by albums brings up a whole bunch of incomplete albums. Folder search fixes that) any suggestions?
So when I sort by albums in plexamp, it will bring up full and partial albums. In folder view in Plex, it comes up as full albums in their folders, and then all the singles in their own single folder. I hope that makes sense. Is that metadata that’s causing that?
Generally speaking, the new music library (upgraded last year) operates on the 1-album-per-folder structure. So if you have all the single tracks inside a single folder, that’ll probably end up as an unmatched album (because it considers all the files to be a single album).
The new metadata system also does a better job of recognizing EPs, so if you have the proper structure (the EP files inside an EP folder) it should show up as that EP inside Plex (and eventually we’d like to display them separately, like we do for TIDAL).
We don’t really support a structure with a bunch of “random” artist files inside a folder, if that makes sense.
I like to think that it’s worth it! Once the music is “matched” into the system you get all the great metadata which is the combination of MusicBrainz and AllMusic, which I consider the highest quality available (and together even better). Otherwise we’d all just use Norton Commander and traverse folders like peasants.
I’d like to put in a vote for bringing the Folder View in from PLEX. As you stated, you are not fans of this, but I am. It allows the users to be as flexible as they would like - not just sorting by genre for instance - but sorting by literally ANY way they please. If they want to have a new sort by “Bobbi-Joes Cool 1988 Music”… well- they COULD actually create that folder and put those files within it, by simply creating the folder. Then just changing the folder name next week with a single keystroke.
Folder View grants the user both the flexibility, and as much the personalization that they could possibly ever ask for - and it also happens to exactly match the folder structure on their PC as well.
There are so many good reasons that this would benefit users - I wish you guys would reconsider. PLEXAmp IS pretty spiffy - but without a folder view, I find it’s limited and less useful than it deserves to be…
What I have done is labeled the single songs as - Singles … the way I accomplish this is by using the the album space label. As an example: Whole Lotta Love - Single
Having said that, about 6 or so months ago, perhaps at the time the new meta choice was added, I started noticing 2 things.
One, a scan of the library “sometimes” left off the - Single part of the title, and some times it did not. No reasoning I can figure out as to why it does this. Two, after adding a single when I did a scan, PLEX did not pick up the album cover art that was attached to the file. This one is particularly odd, since a few times it did carry over the album art but 9 times out of 10 it took the artist picture and associated it with the song.
Both of these seemed odd, since it worked flawlessly prior to a change on the PMS software.
This is a bit of extra work, and I might request this be fixed. The reason being is that statistically, more single tracks are purchased than albums these days. More artists release singles rather than full albums. So as time goes on, I tend to buy an average of 10 singles as opposed to only 3 albums on average.
any suggestions?
Thanks for your help, know your efforts are appreciated by us all.