Playing plex music on an pi

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Hi, I have an allo signature that i was using it as a roon endpoint but plex music is looking a lot better these days and i would really like to be able to play plex music through it and ive been doing a lot of searching and not coming up with much until i saw elan’s old post about plexamp v2

can someone tell me if this still the best way to play play plex music via the pi and do i have to have a decided pi to do that?
I only recently signed up to roon so i have most of a year left so i would really like to be able to play music from plex and roon on the same pi.

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It is the only project on raspi so far.
It is running as a daemon, so it might be possible to coexist with other software. But I don’t know if it clashes with other software which is trying to use the audio hardware at the same time. You need to try that yourself.

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hi otto,

thanks for your reply. I have an SD card running dietpi. if i follow these instructions i should be able to cast to the pi?

do you know in setup 2 can i use my windows server.json file from plexamp v3 or do i need to find plexamp v2 installer?

thanks

  1. Download https://files.plexapp.com/elan/Plexamp-v2.0.0-rPi-beta.2.tar.bz2
  2. Get a server.json file from existing Plexamp on desktop install, install in /home/pi/.config/Plexamp/ . Sign out and back into your existing install to get a new identifier/token.
  3. Install node 9 on the Pi.

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$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
$ sudo apt install -y nodejs
  1. Unpack in /home/pi
  2. Install service file:

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$ sudo cp /home/pi/plexamp/plexamp.service /lib/systemd/system/plexamp.service
  1. Get service running:

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$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable plexamp
$ sudo systemctl start plexamp
$ sudo systemctl status plexamp
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Plexamp 3 doesn’t use a server.json
You need an installed plexamp 1
see Rpi plexamp setup

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