So, this was a pleasant surprise! Plexamp is exactly what I would expect out of a modern, Plex-based dedicated music player, and for a first release of a “passion project”, it blew me away. That said, of course there are some bugs and issues, but I’m sure you’re already working on most of that. Wha…

Definitively love the ReplayGain I just could not figure out why is the level lower. However I cannot control the volume from iOS Plex app.

Is it possible to use Icecast2 as output? So you could stream directly to a Sonos.

Forgive my ignorance here as I do enjoy these “passion” projects. What would this give me versus using a Chromecast audio? I do realize that the pi hat could allow for higher quality audio output (assuming you buy the correct hat) but is there anything else?

@johnny15 Chromecast audio won’t do gapless playback (especially of hi-res). Also there are a limited set of audio codecs supported for Chromecast audio. For example I have much of my library in apple lossess m4a, and it won’t play back without transcoding. If you don’t care about those things, the…

@christopherru Thanks for the reply and insight. I wouldn’t say I “don’t care” about those things but I don’t have any lossless audio in my library and unfortunately, I don’t have the audio equipment that I’d probably be able to tell the difference with when listening to if I did have any lossles…

Thought I had all the right ingredients but can’t start the plexamp service. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status plexamp ● plexamp.service - Plexamp Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexamp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-05-07 15…

@cdlenfert I had to downgrade my node to v9 to get plexamp running on my pi zerow.

Thanks for the feedback @christopherru . Just downgraded. Made sure to run through the whole setup as Pi users (previously I did sudo su to save time). Still no love starting the service. Back to the drawing board I suppose. pi@raspberrypi:~ $ node -v v9.11.1 pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm -v 5.6.0

@cdlenfert If you run node /home/pi/plexamp/server/server.prod.js you should be able to view any relevant errors in the console.

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The instructions provided by @elan are spot on, thanks! I have a bluetooth sound bar configured using Pulseaudio (it’s a hack to put it together, I’ll admit) however I’m not sure of how to update the mapping in the mpd.conf file as @plexerix has with the USB DAC to utilize the bluetooth device as an audio output option. Has anyone had luck using a bluetooth audio device?

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