Hi, I am considering Plex and Plexamp to replace my LMS wit various aging squeezebox players. I have a few Chromecast Audio devices in the house, as well as DLNA players. I like Plexamp as an alternative to LMS or the very expensive Roon - but a deal breaker would be the ability (or inability) to…

Take your very nice NAD D7050 and pair it with a Raspberry Pi + SPDIF hat (as described in many forum threads here) and run headless Plexamp on it. Some advantages over Chromecast: Gapless playback. Sweet fades. Loudness leveling. Equalizer. Bit-perfect playback. Can run independently (Chomecast w…

Thanks Elan - I will look into that - never built a pi before - guess it is now time to start :slight_smile:

Thanks all. Upgraded to Plex Premium yesterday. The Raspberry solution looks to do the trick - I find getting the parts a bit of a challenge at the moment (HAT, Case, and Board - plus the fact that I am new to the Pi hardware) - For now I have it linked to the ChromeCast Audio - have not tried the …

Here is a tip to make gapless audio work with PlexAmp casting to ChromeCast Audio: Open the Google home app Cast your phone audio to the ChromeCast of your choice Open PlexAmp and play (do not cast from PlexAmp) PlexAmp will play locally, gapless. The home app will cast all phone audio as a sin…

wow i didn’t even know this was possible :joy:

I think the ability to initiate casting from the Google Home app only exists on Android … and it acts kinda like using Airplay from an Apple device (Plexamp on the Android device handles gapless playback and then the Home app passes the output along to the Chromecast device … there might be some ex…

You are right. It is a work around. The streaming quality is also not the best this way. I’m waiting for my Pi to arrive. I still have the squeezebox setup to fall back to. Loving PlexAmp BTW.

Plexamp Gapless playback over Chromecast Audio?

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Plexamp Gapless playback over Chromecast Audio?

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