I use(d) Prism for offline playback of my Plex library. Prism, when on my home WiFi, can literally download tunes at 35MB/sec to my iPhone. However, I just tried Plexamp, and the download is pathetically slow. In the time Prism could download 20GB of tracks, Plexamp is barely at 1GB. These are FLAC …

First of all, make absolutely sure it’s not transcoding. Play a download and see if it’s Opus or FLAC. I find downloads to be super fast over here (just tried and it was ~30MB/sec).

Elan, Thanks for the quick personal reply! I just double checked, and all downloads are in fact FLAC. Is there any further troubleshooting I can perform? I experience the same slow downloads in the main Plex app as well, but I’m hooked on Plexamp for music.

Plexamp slow downloads on iOS

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Traveler885 June 21, 2020, 9:47pm 4

So I think I found the root cause of the slow downloads in Plexamp. I started a separate thread here: [Bug?] Plexamp on iOS/MacOS using WAN IP on LAN connection

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