Some plexamp tips

Plex Labs
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I’m using plexamp on macOS and have noticed some stuff.

Bug:

  • When I attempt to control another player using plexamp the interface goes blank, and stays that way until I switch back to local and restart the app.
  • I think the Retrospect visualizer might be broken as it doesn’t seem to do anything.

Suggestions:

  • maybe have some kind of loading indicator when metadata is coming in, so you don’t think somethings gone wrong when its just blank.
  • it would be really nice to have the option to have plexamp show on all virtual desktops.
  • not sure how feasible enabling multiple libraries at once would be, but that would also be handy

Loving the app so far, I finally get to ditch iTunes!

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Thanks for using the app!

When I attempt to control another player using plexamp the interface goes blank

Somewhat expected, because visualizers only work locally; we’ll make it jump back to album art/soundprint when remotely connected so that it doesn’t go blank. We’ve made a fix in 1.0.2 for this to work a bit more cleanly.

I think the Retrospect visualizer might be broken as it doesn’t seem to do anything.

This was some sort of weird GLSL issue, fixed in 1.0.2.

maybe have some kind of loading indicator when metadata is coming in

Agreed, we’re in need of loading indicators, error dialogs, that sort of thing :sweat_smile:

it would be really nice to have the option to have plexamp show on all virtual desktops

We’ve added this for you in 1.0.2.

enabling multiple libraries at once would be

Search works across multiple libraries; not sure how you would envision it working specifically?

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Awesome, I’m looking forward to the next release.

Search works across multiple libraries; not sure how you would envision it working specifically?
Hypothetically all the discovery sections would pull info from all the libraries you have enabled as sources, and both radios would do the same.

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That sort of merging is tricky to do, especially when we allow diving into the “hub” (e.g. click on Recently Added header).

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I see, I figured itd be possible because the plex web client does it. the /hubs request it does returns a home.music.recent hub that contains newly added albums from both of my music libraries.

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If it’s not that simple it isn’t a big deal. I’m not sure many would find a feature like this useful anyway.

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Ah yeah, the /hubs request returns mixed results from all libraries; we use the library-specific hubs request.