Hi, i have a new problem introduced with the last plexamp update. I am running plexamp via the appimage AUR (en) - plexamp-appimage on endeavouros. When I start plexamp it cant play music. The playbar will jump one second forward and back. I can solve this by going into the settings and switching t…

You haven’t included Plexamp logs , but this sounds like an issue with the audio subsystem on that Linux distro. The default audio output device should generally work.

I am seeing the same thing recently on nixos with the pipwire audio subsystem, this wasn’t an issue until a couple months ago but now on multiple devices I have to swap from the currently selected audio device (usually default) to a different one (either ‘pipewire sound server’ or an actual output) …

I am seeing exact same thing as OP, I’m running Ubuntu

This is still an issue, 3 months after it was first reported. I agree that “the default audio output device should generally work,” but, obviously, as reported by multiple users across different distros (I use Debian), it does not. It worked before, but not since the most recent update. Ergo, the…

Bump. This is really frustrating and seems to be getting worse, today I can’t get plexamp to actually play at all and have been forced to listen to music in the plex webapp instead which is a much worse experience. What is going on here? Does plex just not care about plexamp anymore? Dupes of this …

With the 4.12.4 AppImage via AUR I seem to have the same problem in Omarchy. I usually restart Plexamp and then it just works

We care about this, just haven’t had the time to look into it.

hi all, I am having similar issues with plexamp on my linux desktops as well. I’ve encountered this on both Linux Mint & CachyOS with flatpak plexamp, as well as on Garuda linux with the appimage (either sourced from the plex website or the AUR). I’ve attached today’s plexamp.log. I’ll try to descr…

Unfortunately probably not going to get fixed, been so long now :disappointed_face:

I have exactly the same problem on NixOS. This is really frustrating and did not find any fixes. It seems to be related to their BASS driver (or whatever that is): Feb 12, 2026 11:17:12.241 [0xefbf16c0] ERROR - BASS: Error [BASS_ChannelSetPosition(m_mixer, 0, BASS_POS_BYTE)] - 5 Feb 12, 2026 11:17…

Problem with Audio Output on Linux, have to change output first

Plex Labs

elan March 18, 2026, 9:32pm 12

Apologize for how long this has taken, we’re actively looking into it now.

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