# Plex supports OGG audio but Plexamp doesn't? **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Tags:** plexamp\ **Created:** [February 27, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665 "2024-02-27T15:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![filmbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@filmbrain](https://forums.plex.tv/u/filmbrain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/1 "2024-02-27T15:27:05Z")
I have some albums that were ripped using OGG Vorbis. These play fine in Plex (MacOS, in Chrome), but PlexAmp just skips over them. Guess my questions are – why is it that one app supports it but another doesn’t, and, might this be something supported in the future? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/2 "2024-02-27T19:32:08Z")
Post [Plexamp logs](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-debug-logs-how-to-extract-them/753427), we do support that codec. ---
**Author:** ![filmbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@filmbrain](https://forums.plex.tv/u/filmbrain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/3 "2024-02-27T20:48:04Z")
I believe this log is from the time when the files would not play. I tried two separate albums, both which had been ripped as OGG Vorbis. [Plexamp.2.log](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/9a8BXuvW9zK4lzeqYpkz3lNFOkd.log) (4.8 MB) ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/4 "2024-02-27T21:13:45Z")
Huh, I see this: ```auto BASS: Error reading first byte in stream ``` The error is “the channel/file has ended” which seems to indicate some sort of error processing/decoding the file. Want to pass over a sample? ---
**Author:** ![filmbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@filmbrain](https://forums.plex.tv/u/filmbrain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/5 "2024-02-27T22:21:51Z")
Plays fine in Plex, but not in PlexAmp. [11. DVA - Tralala.ogg.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/QXCTNaT8xJwjzOTlFuVmsPsudu.zip) (7.9 MB) ---
**Author:** ![tgp-2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tgp-2/32/276306_2.png) [@tgp-2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tgp-2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/6 "2024-02-28T03:07:25Z")
media info in plex.tv says this file has both vorbis (audio) and theora (video) … mpv media player indicates same … this might explain why Plexamp won’t play it? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/7 "2024-02-28T06:42:49Z")
Huh, good eye, I wonder if that is related. Does Plex play it as a video, or audio? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/8 "2024-02-28T06:53:32Z")
Confirmed it works if I take out the video stream. Also while converting FFMPEG spewed a ton of errors: ```auto [libvorbis @ 0x7f780c005240] Queue input is backward in time ``` My suspicion is that something is messed up here in the encoding. ---
**Author:** ![filmbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@filmbrain](https://forums.plex.tv/u/filmbrain)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/9 "2024-02-28T07:45:18Z")
Plex plays it as audio. I was able to convert it to FLAC using a converter, and that solved the problem. Not sure how that video layer wound up in the original file… ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/10 "2024-02-28T07:59:19Z")
> [@filmbrain](#): > > Plex plays it as audio When you say “Plex” which app specifically are you talking about? ---
**Author:** ![filmbrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@filmbrain](https://forums.plex.tv/u/filmbrain)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/11 "2024-02-28T08:12:34Z")
plex.tv, in Chrome (Macos). ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/12 "2024-02-28T08:37:58Z")
Yeah, that’s probably transcoding 😅 And if not, totally different player under the hood. ---
**Author:** ![Ryuzaki\_2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ryuzaki_2/32/211321_2.png) [@Ryuzaki\_2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ryuzaki_2)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/13 "2024-02-29T18:31:16Z")
Yup this confirms it for me. If you have a file, doesn’t matter what kind of file it is. Just throw it at Plex and Some version of Plex will get it to play, somehow someway. What’s that I hear coming from the server… .? I think I can I think I can I think I can. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-supports-ogg-audio-but-plexamp-doesnt/870665/14 "2024-05-29T18:31:48Z")
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