Plexamp: Play music in exclusive mode [Win10]

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In PlexMediaPlayer [PMP] it is possible to set the audio device to exclusive mode (I did that by setting “sections.audio.exclusive” to “true” in the plexmediaplayer.conf file located in ~/AppData/Local/PlexMediaPlayer).
This enables bit-perffect audio with my DAC.
At least I tend to believe that, since after this change (and a restart of PMP) the LED on my DAC indicates the right sampling rate and bit depth of the audio file played :wink:

Is something similar also possible for plexamp?
Can I also set a configuraiton option, so that it plays sound in exclusive mode (and bit-perfect)?

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We will likely be supporting bit-perfect mode in the future in Plexamp.

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What is bit-perfect?

Surely Plex Server and Plex players provide a faithful reproduction of the music stored and served up?

I specifically recorded my entire CD collection using FLAC to ensure that I had faithful high quality versions of them.

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Exclusive mode under Windows allows applications to bypass the mixer built into Windows, which resamples everything based on the mixer settings. Exclusive mode allows for audio to be transferred to the DAC without any modifications - ‘bit-perfect’. Right now, Plexamp doesn’t have this feature.

I too would love to see this added.

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Any news on this bit-perfect. I am a Mac user.

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No updates at the moment, sorry! We’ve been focusing most of our energy on bringing some of the plexamp player features over to our other apps.

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Any updates? I love the Plexamp so far btw!

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Still working on the next big update to the app :sweat_smile:

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any ETA? Hopefully it will be available for RPI and have possibility to disable crossfade… please, please, please

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On linux you can change crossfade in server.json

"audio": {
    "device": "D10",
    "normalize": false,
    "crossfade": false
  },
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I know, I have this setting, but unfortunately sometimes it doesn’t work. I’ve noticed that with couple of my double albums (Pink Floyd, etc). So still wating for a new release of plexamp for RPI.

And I know, that this thread is about win, sorry about that, but this one is still active.

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Hi @elan,

Some news about the Plexamp upgrade ? Still in V2beta since 2 years.

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Still working on it :sweat_smile:

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Okay ! Hope Plexamp release before 2021 :stuck_out_tongue:

“Push to DLNA renderer” could be awesome feature, and all Hifi people (who use Roon) could migrate to plex !

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