rPi headless Plexamp: visible in cast list, but unable to start a song

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First of all, thanks for creating and running Plex :slight_smile:

I’ve installed headless Raspberry Pi OS lite 64 bit on a Pi4 2GB. I’ve ran the script of Odinb: bash-plexamp-installer/README.md at main · odinb/bash-plexamp-installer · GitHub

After reboot all looks good when I check systemctl --user status plexamp.service:

● plexamp.service - Plexamp
Loaded: loaded (/home/pi/.config/systemd/user/plexamp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2022-06-15 20:33:28 CEST; 6min ago
Main PID: 559 (node)
Tasks: 18 (limit: 1830)
CPU: 2.937s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/plexamp.service
└─559 /usr/bin/node /home/pi/plexamp/js/index.js

Jun 15 20:33:28 raspberrypi systemd[522]: Started Plexamp.
Jun 15 20:33:29 raspberrypi node[559]: Starting Plexamp.
Jun 15 20:33:29 raspberrypi node[559]: DEVICE: No provider for source 13f113a4cb0031f535745b2c7ee8783fafc04c0a

The issue

The rPi will show up in my cast list. However the moment I select a song to play, it either keeps loading forever (black screen with loading circle) or it flips back to the album overview without starting the selected song. This is the case for all file types I’ve tried.

Any ideas? Hope so!

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This happened to me and I had to go into the plexamp settings (via the web UI) and select the right audio output device

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Rebooting the rPI a second time sometimes also helps. Of course only if correct audio device is chosen.

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Probably just need to select the Pi in the cast dialog. We’ll make that the default.

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The fix was indeed selecting hifiberry in the web UI!

I’m loving this so much!! I’m blasting 192/24 on my hifi set as I type this.

I think it would be helpful to include this final step as part of @odinb1 's readme perhaps?

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Done!

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You are a legend sir.

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