Plexamp v4.10
Whew. What a long development cycle. Marathons not sprints, am I right?
Plexamp v4.10 represents a colossal undertaking to upgrade and replace many of our core building blocks, bringing bug fixes, performance improvements, and laying a strengthened foundation for the future of Plexamp. Even software needs an oil change and a tune-up sometimes, and in this case, we upgraded nearly 80 core packages (and that’s not even counting all of their dependents).
That’s enough nerd talk, how about some new features?
With Plexamp, we are trying to build a music player which is great at exploration (in your own personal collection) and discovery (finding new music), and we’ve added a powerful and fun new tool for the latter: A new Guest DJ — DJ Doppelgänger — expands your play queue (and your mind) by inserting the closest sonic twin from TIDAL after each track, taking care to not add something already in your library.
We’ve discovered so much new music already while building this, and we think it’s a game changer for TIDAL subscribers. If you were looking for a sign to try TIDAL + Plexamp, consider this your sign. (note: requires Sonic Analysis on your server). Along with the new DJ, you’ll also see Sonic suggestions from TIDAL for artists and albums. Have fun discovering great new music!
Next up, a simple solution for an occasionally vexing problem. Have you ever wanted to start playback on another Plexamp (headless, say) but you don’t want to lose your current play queue? Well, now you can; simply tap or click the icon of the player you want to send play to in the cast dialog (it changes to a play icon), and the very next thing you play will be sent over.
We’ve also added a way to change artist and album posters inside the app, to address a very common use case, and in addition done a bunch of work to ensure you can see the image resolution of each poster!
Oh, by the way, thanks to the aforementioned performance improvements, we were able to bump up the limit for each downloaded item to 3 days!
Added
- Introducing our new Guest DJ, DJ Doppelgänger
- Sonic artist/album suggestions from TIDAL
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- Increase downlimit limit from 24 to 72 hours per item.
- Allow downloading all albums from an artist with a single action.
- Ability to send playback to a different player than we’re connected to.
- Quickly search and filter your playlists when adding items.
- Fetch new album and playlist artwork for downloaded items when refreshing.
- Added a new artwork picker for artists and albums which shows resolution.
- Player large poster updates if changed elsewhere.
- Update Sonic Sage to the latest GPT models for improved reliability and reduced cost.
- Improved design and visual consistency of assorted menus.
- Android: Show overscroll feedback on the Player screen.
- Linux: Updated launcher icon.
- Upgrade React Native.
- Upgrade Electron.
- Upgrade Node (see note below).
Fixed
- In some cases, the artist page was missing sections.
- After deleting a shared playlist, it could come back from the dead
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- The list of users to share items with could be incorrect.
- Playing collections from the library grid screen wasn’t working.
- Improve reliability of downloads when switching networks.
- Error message when failing to load playlists was placed incorrectly.
- Make sure the keyboard is dismissed when opening the full-screen player.
- Android: Improve library switching reliability with Android Auto.
- Android: Make headers sticky on filter rule editing dialog.
- Android: Downloads could fail after an SD card was removed.
- Android: Further fixes to prevent visual glitches on older Android devices.
- Missing right margin on downloaded items.
- TIDAL: In some cases the home page could fail to load.
- TIDAL: In some cases, speaker icon didn’t appear on currently playing tracks.
- Desktop: Long form seek bar was broken.
- Don’t attempt to use DALL-E 3 if it’s unavailable.
- Disabled Guest DJs weren’t visually distinguished.
- In some cases, Guest DJ selections were added multiple times.
- Fixed a rare crash when using DJ Groupie.
- Fixed a reported crash when switching players.
- Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to gracefully handle crashes. Yes, really
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- Update translations.
Note: Plexamp Headless now uses NodeJS v20, replacing the now unsupported v16. Before updating Plexamp, be sure to download and install the latest Node JS first. Using a Node version manager like NVM makes this much easier.
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(thanks Saenko & michaelvelosk)
for you before 
! This one has a few great fixes and improvements.
moment around at least alleviating the issue. If you’re running Plexamp on filesystems capable of hard links, any new downloads which overlap existing ones won’t use extra disk space (and will complete super quickly).
