We wanted to offer an build for Plexamp for Linux for you to play with; without further ado, here it is. It’s an AppImage, which means it should run across a wide variety of Linux distros.
Let us know how it works for you in this thread, please. Maybe it crashes and burns; maybe it works perfectly. Let us know either way 
(If you’re not seeing the menubar icon, you probably are running into a known issue which can be worked around by setting an environment variable.)
Thanks for releasing it 
Is there a way to build it directly?
Downloading it and making it executable means I can run in on arch.
It offers to install itself, which I declined until I understand where it puts itself, but it is running
Thanks!
AUR anyone 
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Edit: FYI, logged in and it states;
Unknown Product
would like to sign in to your Plex account
As well as not being able to see any of my plex servers … although it cycles through them and see them it doesn’t show there contents; only 2 radio stations?
Edit2: Ok So installed gnome extension ‘topicons plus’ and now can see the icon to select the server and player I have music!
Working great for me on Ubuntu 17.10 with the topicons plus gnome extension mentioned by @mannp. Thanks @elan.
Edit: Media keys aren’t working, but I"m just happy to have flawless (so far) music playback.
Edit 2: When trying to switch the player to XboxOne, I get a system notification saying Couldn't switch to new player
Working great on openSUSE 42.2 and 42.3 ! Plexamp has provided exactly what was needed to finally switch over our home sound system. Today is a great day for my ears. Thank you !
Plexamp seems slow to refresh available players. Is there a way to manually refresh without restarting Plexamp ? Looking forward to more configuration options.
@smoniewski said:
Plexamp seems slow to refresh available players. Is there a way to manually refresh without restarting Plexamp ?
There’s a trick, selecting any existing player (even currently selected one) should kick off a refresh in the background.
Its working great on manjaro linux!
First test is very good. I have one problem at the moment. Using a 4k monitor the size of the playlist is a little bit small. But havent tried to make it bigger. I will do this in the evening.
THX,
Stefan
Works great on Mint Cinnamon. At first I expected some menu capability in the app itself, but then I found it in the menubar (right where you said it’d be…). I love the design of the search, and relying upon that. Since it finds Artists, Albums, Tracks, and even Playlists; it’s perfect. Integration of the lyrics is cool as hell. I’d like to be able to move it, without playing something. I can’t really come up with any other suggestions, but I can’t wait to see what innovative improvements you make. It might be cool to have a low-resource android app, so we could quickly connect to and play music from a PMS.
thanks! works great, as previously mentioned media keys are not working
running it on ubuntu16.04
Working very well. The icon in the menubar is very small on my monitor (4k) and doesn’t seem to be aware of Cinnamon’s interface scaling.
Edit 1: Certain modal dialogues (“You are already running the latest version, well done!”) have no buttons to confirm or close. 'Esc’ape works though, but with no UI to indicate that.
Thanks a lot for that, plays great so far on my Ubuntu 17.04.2 system at home and at least it doesn’t exhibit the problem of playing music in web interface that hangs up every few tracks 
At first look works nice at Ubuntu 16.04.
What good for me – player can be controlled via mobile app (after being connected to plexamp player)
And really missing feature I hoped will work on plexamp – global media keys not working (Ctrl+Shift+Space works, while Play/Pause, prev, next, and others – doesn’t)
ps Plex Amp version - 1.0.1
@elan said:
We wanted to offer an build for Plexamp for Linux for you to play with; without further ado, here it is. It’s an AppImage, which means it should run across a wide variety of Linux distros.
Works really nice so far and lot better than web interface for playing audio 
Just one bug I noticed:
next track starts after end of current one but in Plexamp the interface still displays in the interface the last second of previous track. In an other way: the interface is in late on audio I hear but not all the time !
For info all my library is in flac and few tracks in DSD/DFF !
Vincèn
I’m going to assume this AppImage is x86 format?
It certainly doesn’t seem to run on the Raspberry Pi. Any chance of an ARM version?
Tom
@tomsimmons ~ It’s x86-64, yeah. We’ll be providing something for ARM, but more a headless player portion, not the UI per se.
@vincen said:
next track starts after end of current one but in Plexamp the interface still displays in the interface the last second of previous track. In an other way: the interface is in late on audio I hear but not all the time !
Yep, known issue we’ll address in the future
@elan said:
@tomsimmons ~ It’s x86-64, yeah. We’ll be providing something for ARM, but more a headless player portion, not the UI per se.
Would be very interested to beta test the headless player if you need some testers
Don’t know much about ARM, but since if I’m not mistaken; all smartphones are ARM. Could Android player be a next step from developing an ARM player?.. Obviously, it would be the opposite of headless.
There’s already at least two ARM Plex clients - they just happen to run on Android and iOS, targetting a different use-case, where the Plexamp architecture would not translate well. I’d prefer that the usability enhancements just go into the Android/iOS music experiences (e.g. crossfade support, gapless playback).
For general ARM Plexamp compatibility, I suspect that’s more dependent on whether MPD compiles for it, and given that there have been mpd packages for arm64 and armhf for some years, it’s then only down to the Plexamp application server stack that needs to run - which, given that the client itself is an Electron application, I’m going to assume is Node.js - and is thus not going to have any problems running on ARM either.
Plus, there’s always the Plex plugin for Kodi if you want an ARM player.
@elan said:
@tomsimmons ~ It’s x86-64, yeah. We’ll be providing something for ARM, but more a headless player portion, not the UI per se.
Can’t wait to get see this, headless would be fine as control from another device is what I’m looking at.
Tom
When using the Window version of PlexAmp it appears in other players to cast to. However this doesn’t appear to be the case with the Linux version.
It can see other players, but other players can’t see it.
Tom
