So I am trying to get Plexamp headless setup to replace a Chromecast audio (I need gapless playback…) and am having some issues. I have tried to run it on my workstation (Debian 10) as well as a few different raspberry pis. Every time the UI shows and I can navigate my library but when I try to play…

Does any data need scrubbed from the Plexamp logs ? I see what looks like tokens and just want to be sure I am good.

You can always DM me, but they should be scrubbed.

In that case here is the log file from the pi. I can restart from the claim and upload logs from that entire process if it is needed. Plexamp.log (1.1 MB)

There’s really nothing in that log except an idle headless player.

I am not sure if this would be helpful but here I am doing a claim on a new install and I get an error. pi@nearly-headless:~/plexamp $ node js/index.js Starting Plexamp 4.3.0 Please visit https://plex.tv/claim and enter the claim token: claim-xxxxxx Please give the player a name (e.g. Bedroom, Kit…

[image] syco54645: DEVICE: Error loading cloud players from plex.tv HTTP status 403 That is not a bad thing per se, it just means you didn’t link any “cloud players”.

I see. Any idea of what else it could be? I still do not see the headless app in my devices to cast to. Still cannot play anything either. I have tried different browsers and even different devices. Was really hoping to get gapless whole home audio in a headless fashion. I should be able to pipe th…

[image] syco54645: I still do not see the headless app in my devices to cast to. I believe this is the core of the issue. Please zip up all the logs on the Pi and send them over, I want to see the startup sequence.

Here are the logs. Also may help, I see this in the firefox developer console when i try to play music from the http://rpi-ip:32500/ . PlayQueue: Exception executing task this.app.audioController.disableStateUpdates is not a function TypeError: this.app.audioController.disableStateUpdates is not a f…

It’s almost 100% guaranteed you haven’t selected the Pi as the player in the cast menu to see that error.

Plexamp headless not playing music

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elan September 5, 2022, 1:52am 21

That is not a bad thing per se, it just means you didn’t link any “cloud players”.

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Plexamp headless not playing music

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