I’m having trouble getting used to the Plexamp switch player interface. I want the option to switch players from any plexamp instance to another without stopping, changing, or importing a playlist.
Disconnect before switching.
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Yes, that does work – clicking ‘disconnect’ before connecting to another plexamp using the Windows Plexamp software. But as far as I can tell, Android Plexamp 4.9.4 doesn’t have the disconnect option.
It does.
I find this inconsistent and confusing too.
While the local device has no queue, you can connect to and control a remote player, and then disconnect to go back to the local device.
However while the local device has a queue this behaviour changes, and clicking a remote player presents a ‘Confirm’ or ‘Cancel’ option, but doesn’t explain what. Clicking ‘Confirm’ transfers the local queue to the remote player, overwriting the remote player’s queue.
Is there no way to just connect to a remote player and control its current queue without transferring the local devices queue to it in this second scenario?
Check the newest release, it added functionality to be able to start playback on a remote player non-invasively. You tap the player icon in the cast dialog which then turns into a 
button. The next item played is sent to that player, as a one-time only action.
With this change, you can now perform the following actions on remote players without destroying any local playback:
- Pause/resume, skip forwards and backwards
- Send new playback
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Ok, thanks for confirming, hopefully being able to fully switch between remote players without destroying local playback will be added in the future.
what more are you looking for, and why?
Thanks for asking for more details.
I use Plexamp on my phone when in the car/out of the house, when I’m back in the house and try and control remote players (other rooms) from my phone I lose the car queue.
Switching between remote players (rooms) works perfectly while the local queue is empty, so wouldn’t expect it to behave differently when it has a queue.
I guess from using Roon in the past, and being able to switch between zones without destroying any queues is what I’m used to.
what do you mean by “control” which isn’t already supported? just curious.
This is also my problem and same use case. I have multiple headless players in the house and use multiple androids with local bluetooth playback-- when there is a queue on the local mobile, I can’t ‘disconnect’ from that local queue like I could with remote players. So I am forced to bring the queue into one of the remote players. We can only ‘disconnect’ from remote players.
What would be nice is if I could keep the local queue on my phone by disconnecting, using the phone to control other players, then to be able to have the phone queue preserved for use later on later on.
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As you’ve outlined, it’s currently limited to:
It doesn’t switch the now playing screen to the remote player and then have full access to programming the upcoming queue etc.
I can’t then disconnect from the remote player back to my existing local phone queue when I leave the house.
Got it, “full access to the queue” is what I was missing.
Yes, correct, but also when fully connected to a remote player it then has the now playing screen in the app and also iOS (this appears on the phone lock screen, control centre, and also Apple Watch as per if the music was playing locally).
Anyway, thanks for listening to our feedback, it’s much appreciated.
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