Plexamp & Airplay: two great tastes that are horrible together

It’s been many days now without a dropout so I think the problem is solved.

However, the combination of Plexamp and airplay 1 does not play well on all networks. I was fortunate that I could make the necessary changes (and those changes don’t seem to have had any negative effects) but not everyone is so lucky. Other apps, on the same hardware and on the same network behave just fine.

I do hope @elan and crew will give some thought on how to make Plexamp and airplay more robust.

1 Like

I appreciate you updating us with the latest, and glad the issue is resolved for you!

Hey, having read this whole thread and followed along, I’ve learned a bit and appreciate all the info.

  1. my iPhone and my iPad like to swap back and forth between nodes in a less than useful way quite often when walking around the house. Similar to messaging from ac4lt, other apps have less/no problem(s) with this, and dont disconnect/stop all the time

  2. There’s not much I can do about my network – have tried relocating mesh nodes, rebuilding the network thru resetting all the hardware, and can’t get it to totally stop. I can get it more stable by playing with disabling/re-enabling wifi on a device after moving around. We can blame that on my network, on Apple, Airplay v. X, whatever, but I can’t successfully use that to justify to family members why they need to fiddle with their phones’ wifi for just one app

I’m happy that @ac4lt managed to stabilize things for their network, and also am happy that I have figured out a (kludge) workaround for my problems, but I would say this issue still exists, all the anecdotal “I dont have a problem, it must be you” comments notwithstanding.

I LOVE the app and I really appreciate, @elan, your explanations of how things are designed - and why. I definitely get the engineering problems you have described and the challenge of how the features work compared to other less advanced apps. And like ac4lt said, I, too, hope that you will give some thought on how to make Plexamp + Airplay more robust in the future.

2 Likes

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.