yes, and no.
Could you elaborate this please?
it’s no longer supported.
i can’t tell you when there will be a headless solution because i don’t have a date for you. we’re interested in providing the functionality.
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Thanks for the honest reply.
Elan
This and some really annoying playback features are why I think I am going to be left with no option but to look for another solution for my music.
Plex seemed to offer everything I wanted, but the complexity, if even possible of performing a backup and building a fresh install, the stitching of tracks together and the abandoned support of the Pi for playback…
The immediate future looks like uPNP in some form or other
i’m not sure i follow. what does “stitching of tracks” mean?
we haven’t supported the Pi version for a year now. we’ve repeatedly said we will provide a new version and that we’re working on it.
upnp is a bleak future.
performing a backup and building a fresh install
For what it’s worth, I just performed a backup/restore on a fresh server a month or two back with a music library of around 8000 albums. The Plex documentation for this is thorough, and following it step-by-step should give you what you’re after. Just make sure to read it carefully, and you’ll be fine!
FWIW - I have the latest Plexamp running on FydeOS from a RPI4 with an HDMI display. Trying to get the drivers working for a touchscreen screen display… haven’t tested a DAC yet as I think I may have fried it. Maybe someone with more skillz than me can figure it out. I am just a humble tinkerer.
Elan
uPNP is not ideal, but its free, works, is supported and has lots of options. I mention free not because I’m against paying, but because I purchased life subscription of Plex and don’t really want to do the same again elsewhere.
By stitching together I mean the way that it frequently plays one track straight after the previous without a gap. It seems to happen as a result of using plexamp on a tablet or similar to control the headless plexamp on the Pi. It is undesirable when listening to a lot of music.
I appreciate you’re working on it. I’m a software developer myself, things take time. But if I told my boss and customers for a year that I’m working on it but had nothing to show…well I wouldn’t be working on it any longer, or probably employed there.
Tom
Can you point me to the steps you followed and any tips please? I’m backing up plex server on a Pi.
The problem I have is that an 50% plus of the library is LPs that have been recorded to FLAC and and have to be manually labelled up, art provided.
When you try the restore and it fails and your facing changing all the art manually again, grouping multiple LPs as discs of the same album etc it gets pretty depressing.
Tom
Turn off Sweet Fades.
You would be if it was a labor of love and not part of your regular job 
Elan
Sweet fades is off, that’s the feature where it blends the tracks together.
This is playing tracks without a break between them.
Tom
Why would you remove support from PMS without having something in place to replace it??
I had PlexAmp running headless quite nicely on my Raspberry Pi for some time, able to remote control it via PlexAmp for Android, and it worked! Then a recent PMS update apparently broke the setup.
I can understand wanting to move to a better solution… but why completely blow up people’s existing solutions in the meantime with no usable solution available to replace them?
I’m about ready to jump ship.
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It was never supported, only developed as a side-project and labor of love.
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But it worked. Now, doesn’t.
It seems like whatever hook in PMS that allowed PlexAmp for RPi to work, before I removed it from successive builds of PMS I would’ve asked “gee, will this break all the installations for people already using it?” Fact is, you didn’t. And that doesn’t hold a lot of promise for Plex in the future. What if there’s another feature that I decide to utilize down the road, have it working 100% in my environment… and then you just chose to close down support.
And this “labor of love” thing is getting old. Fact is, a headless Pi installation has been a feature that’s been asked for for quite a while. It’s time to treat it like a true development project, and stop propping up on the “it’s just a side project” crutch.
Yes, you’re making it hard to love.
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Can I confirm, if the latest version of Plex Media Server is installed the PlexAmp v2 beta stops working with it?
Does that include Plex Media Server running on a Pi?
Tom
Are you saying having updated to a new version of Plex Media Server that PlexAmp v2 beta on the Pi stops working?
What exactly happens, as this morning I have noticed that from PlexAmp & Plex Web on the PC I can see PlexAmp on the Pi, but neither can successfully connect and play music to the Pi version.
I think that PlexAmp on the PC updated this morning to 3.8.2, it was 3.8.0 before I believe.
Tom
OK, seems that PlexAmp on the Pi whilst it can be seen cannot be connected to by PlexAmp PC or Android, Plex Web or Plex on PC any longer. This is the same on 2 completely different installations, both stopping within a day of each other.
I guess therefore that’s the end of the line for PlexAmp on the Pi until some later date.
This weekend I’ll figure out how to back up Plex Server, test restore it, then see if I can reset the ALSA config changes I had to make to get PlexAmp working with the sound card, and install the uPNP client. If that fails, then it will be a re-install of the whole Pi.
should be elemental at this point to throw an arm64 build out for the pi4 and its ilk. All the other ubuntu desktop stuff has been ported, there’s a full environment there now. Not just a toy anymore
