# PlexAmp Headless on Windows
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930
**Category:** Plex Labs
**Tags:** plexamp
**Created:** [April 6, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930 "2023-04-06T16:18:16Z")
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### Author:  [@nisiv](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nisiv)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/1 "2023-04-06T16:18:16Z")
Are there any plans for supporting Headless Plexamp on windows platforms? I have a pretty powerful Windows PC (i7 12700, 32GB RAM, Class 40 SSD, nVidia Quadro graphics card) that has Plex Server running on it that is connected to a NAS with 160TB of storage for movies and music. On the music side, my music collection is around 250,000 tracks. The Windows PC is connected to an external DAC via USB which then goes into my AV Preamp. The goal is to use the Plexamp client on my mobile device to be able to remotely play to the Plexamp client on the Windows PC. I can do this by having the Windows Plexamp client autostart on login/startup but it would be cleaner to have it be a true headless endpoint.
Hope this all makes sense.
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/2 "2023-04-06T18:42:08Z")
it makes sense, but no current plans. headless is really intended for lightweight player scenarios and currently at least linux supports bitperfect audio whereas windows does not.
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### Author:  [@nisiv](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nisiv)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/3 "2023-04-06T19:00:15Z")
Thanks for the prompt reply. Might be time to migrate over to Ubuntu 20.04 on that machine to take advantage of bitperfect audio. Are there any features I would lose running Plex Media Server on Linux vs Windows?
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### Author:  [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/4 "2023-04-06T19:17:07Z")
Hmm, not that I know of.
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### Author:  [@nisiv](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nisiv)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/5 "2023-04-06T22:42:15Z")
Can the headless version be run in a linux container via docker?
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### Author:  [@lanthade](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lanthade)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2023, 4:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/6 "2023-04-09T04:51:47Z")
Yes it can. You still need to figure out how to use the system audio from the container though. I was playing around with this in an attempt to make deploying to multiple systems easier. I need to get RTP streams out of my plexamp system and getting snd-aloop to load in a container was going to be more work than it was worth so I abandoned the project. I did sucessfully get plexamp to run in the docker container though.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2023, 4:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-headless-on-windows/836930/7 "2023-07-08T04:52:09Z")
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