I’ve run into an issue where using Sonic Sage in Plexamp results in a playlist from Tidal which only plays AAC 320, not HiFi. I have a Tidal HiFi subscription and confirmed I can play HiFi tracks directly through Plexamp outside of a Sonic Sage curated playlist. My Plexamp app and PMS report the same information: the song is playing in AAC 320.
I found other posts related to Plexamp playing Tidal HiFi when a song was played directly but reverting to AAC 320, but those issues were reported resolved with a PMS update and adding the tracks to their library.
I’m using Sonic Sage to discover new content which isn’t added to my library and would like this content to play in HiFi when a HiFi track is available from Tidal.
As of this post I’m running PMS in Linux, Version 1.32.5.7349. I’m using the android Plexamp app version 4.8.1, and using mobile data. I’ve confirmed my Streaming Quality settings are set to Maximum for both Wi-Fi and Cellular. Additional Plexamp app settings:
Source: My personal music library
Under the Sonic Sage settings:
I’ve added my personal OpenAI Key
I’ve selected “Use GPT-4 When Available”
I’ve deselected “Only Server Matches” to enable use of my Tidal subscription
Thanks in advance for any suggestions and support!
One additional note:
As Plexamp pulls from the recent song cache when replaying a track (as I’d expect it should do), any songs that are cached through the Sonic Sage playlist and then are played directly outside a playlist will still default to the AAC 320 version if this version is still loaded in cache.
If the cache is deleted and the song is directly played again, as expected the FLAC HiFi version will play, but this requires either a smaller cache and a playlist long enough to purge the song of interest before it’s replayed or someone to manually delete the cache.
Having Plexamp load the HiFi version of the song to start would avoid all this.
