Hi, I have music playing on my Windows PC, and I would like to control it from my phone when I am not in the room. But, when I go to look at the ‘companion apps’ icon from my phone’s Plex App, I do not see the instance of Plex for Windows running on my PC. Anyone know how I can debug this? The se…

[image] Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux Announcements Version 1.46.1 has been released for Plex for Windows, Plex for Mac, and Plex for Linux. NEW: Remove support for being controlled as a companion player. Use Plex for HTPC for remote control playback on the desktop. …

Okay, so am I supposed to use PlexHTPC on my PC to listen to music while I work? I just tried it, and it takes over my computer like a full screen game, at first glance I don’t see any way to show it in a non-full screen window like you can with the Plex for Windows desktop app.

It seems to me like the feature to remote control the Plex Desktop app was removed yet the Plex HTPC app doesn’t suit all the use cases of the Plex Desktop app - namely, a Music Player while your working on something else. Is there a formal way to submit this as feedback? As of now, I’m still using…

Okay so I tried Plex HTPC again and I do see there is a way to put it into windowed mode. Now I basically have a windowed version of a very dumbed down Plex Desktop app, and you expect us paying clients to prefer Plex HTPC over that? I can’t edit my music metadata, I can’t refresh my library from t…

[image] rtepub: the Plex HTPC app doesn’t suit all the use cases of the Plex Desktop app Unfortunately an app can never suit all possible use cases. The decision was made to concentrate on the most-used features and save the time and expense to service features which are only used by a minori…

Sure, but removing an important feature that was working? It is also a feature that will lead me to inevitably find a different media player to use while I work, and that clearly isn’t Plexamp - this is as, if not more, limited than Plex HTPC, and I have to operate on it using my thumbs. This is no…

Also want to gripe about Plexamp - yes it is a pretty good start to a music player, certainly beats apple’s (which isn’t too difficult). But it has almost no functionality for maintaining my media library - all the delete and meta data manipulation functions have been removed. So once again, if I fi…

Did you consider that your use case appears to be completely handled by the combination of the two apps? Since you appear to just use the playback for music, Plexamp can be the app for playback. You use it directly for simply controls it provides. Then you can use Plex for Windows (or the web int…

Hi @gbooker02 thanks for the suggestion. I did indeed consider using Plexamp as the main player and try it all the time, yet it is also inconsistent when I can and cannot remote connect to it. It is likely due to iOS being a more restrictive platfrom, I’m not exactly sure because while I can certain…

[image] rtepub: But my post here is not about using my ipad, it is about using my PC as a music player I was suggesting using Plexamp on the computer instead of HTPC for your music playback: https://plexamp.com/

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