Plexamp library grid view - where is it?

[sygad1]

Hi,

Library?
Grid view?

Am I missing something really obvious, I can’t seem to find the grid view for my library, which was hidden under “recently added”.

Any pointers would be appreciated, i can’t really use the app in it’s current format, seems a very un-intuitive way to browse my collection.

Cheers

[tom80H]

PlexAmp is not supposed to clone the existing Plex clients. It’s a dedicated music player.
You can navigate to your music through the hubs on the “home screen” (recent plays, recently added, recent playlists, various Plex ratio stations, most played, history…) or via search.

In another post a user pointed out that you can click on the hub headers on the home screen and subsequently change e.g. to display albums by album artist which will give you a neat list of all your albums to browse.

Plexamp iOS - how do I browse my library?

I feel silly asking this because I’m sure the answer is going to be simple, but I just downloaded Plexamp for iOS and I can’t figure out how to simply browse my music library. If I press the Home icon in the app, I get “Recent Plays,” “Recently Added Music,” “Stations,” “New Releases on Tidal,” “Most Played in April,” and “History.” But there’s nothing that just points me to my library. I know the app can see my music library, because tracks from my library appear in “Recent Plays,” “Recently…

Personally I’ve fallen in love with the Mix Builder which lets me pick a number of my favorite artists and will play a nice mix of their songs.

[sygad1]

Thanks for replying but, sorry, i’m going to have to disagree with the wisdom of this.

The features you’ve listed are nice and useful but doesn’t follow the expected user language and is not in the language of nearly every music player on the market.

Fundamentally, I have my music, which I would like to browse. A simple, unambiguous way of accessing that archive should be first and foremost in the feature list, search is useful if I know what I want, recently played and added highlights what i’ve just done, what if i’m simply in the mood to look through my entire archive and “discover” an album i’ve forgotten about?

In a quest to redevelop the app, I genuinely feel you’ve missed the most simle and most obvious user action of casual browsing. A list is one way of browsing but a grid format is also a very popular and arguably much faster interface.

I think i’ll be sticking with the current plex app, it gives me nearly all of what I want, i just wish I could alter the scale of the grid view, a little on the large side for my preference.

Cheers

[Daimyo]

@sygad1

what if i’m simply in the mood to look through my entire archive and “discover” an album i’ve forgotten about?

Turn on Library Radio It is one of the best features to bring items you haven’t heard in a while back to your attention.

@sygad1

casual browsing.

Plexamp is a minimal player focused on playing music itself, and in my belief, is the fastest player to get me to start listening to something.

@sygad1

language of nearly every music player on the market.

I really didn’t like any music player out there, just my 2c. Even Tidal felt like a chore oftentimes

[mikeje]

I agree. The interface would really benefit from a grid view, especially when viewing albums,

I’ll stick to the main plex player until it does have grid view.

[Spiner_Femmes]

I love almost everything about plexamp as a music player but I absolutely agree that an album grid view is what it would take to make it my “only” music player.

[primetime43]

I absolutely agree with this. It’s difficult to just browse songs I have in the library. It also needs a section to view favorited songs. What’s the purpose of having the favorite star if you can’t go back and view them.

[TeknoJunky]

@sygad1

seems a very un-intuitive way to browse my collection

while I completely agree grid view would be great, plexamp is less interested in browsing music, rather than PLAYING music.

the various radios and mixbuilder are some of the primary focus of use.

@primetime43

What’s the purpose of having the favorite star if you can’t go back and view them.

create a smart playlist of 5 stars, there is your favorites list.

for more playlist customization see @ [TIP] --- how to create an autoplaylist with random sort

[primetime43]

Gotta do all that on the web tho. Can’t just do it from mobile. Seems like an unnecessary hassle.

[TeknoJunky]

well sure, I don’t think any clients currently support creating/editing smart playlists, so that isn’t a plexamp specific problem.

[primetime43]

But supposedly it’s for “just listening” not browsing ur own music. So there’s no point in having a favorites star if you can’t browse.

[TeknoJunky]

perhaps ‘not for’ is too strong, perhaps instead ‘more optimized’ for playing versus randomly browsing around.

you can always use the context menu to go to an artist/album. or you know, the search works pretty awesome.

Finally I’d argue a favorites track list is for playing, not for browsing, but to each their own.

I don’t agree with all of plexamps peculiaries myself, but if you/we want a traditional music player, there is the regular plex app.

Plexamp, from the folks who made, is something more experimental and not necessarily intended to be a ‘standard’ music player, nor is it intended to ‘be for everyone’.

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