Plex’s latest moves have me a bit worried. While I could easily migrate movies and TV to Jellyfin, music is another subject entirely. I have become heavily reliant on the polished experience of PlexAmp. The 5-star rating system is something that I use on a daily basis - I use a python script to communicate with the plex API and compile all of my ratings on a per-album basis. I display this information on my personal website, and I’ve sunk years into this project. While I have no plans in the immediate future to move away from Plex, it’s got me thinking about migration possibilities if the day ever comes.

There is a feature request for 5-star ratings on Jellyfin’s feature request portal here:
https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/9/music-star-rating

It has been open and unresolved for almost 7 years. Unless the community or I add this ourselves, I don’t see it happening.

Is there any other music streaming server that supports 5-star ratings? As long as it does this, I wouldn’t mind if it doesn’t support movies and TV on top.

Seeing everything going sideway with Plex lately, i'm worry that Plexamp will be dropped or it's développement will get even slower as it is now...

Tell us you're still alive and the wait will be worth it

I need a software that looks and feels like Spotify because I like the modern minimalistic feeling of it. I found one called Obscurify but that's not on the app store and there's no APK file

Plexamp always picks up where it left off playing the song I was listening to, but more often than not when I try to get to the home Plexamp screen on AA I can't - it will just show the Downloaded screen and an empty playlist. Killing Plexamp on my phone will almost always fix this - it automatically opens again, resumes the song, and the home screen and my libraries are available. Does this happen to others?

A second issue I have is that the highlighted selection always jumps to shuffle and I have to move it back. For instance, I select an artist and an album, I highlight the back button to go to a different album (I have to do this all with a controller in my car as it doesn't have a touchscreen) it will jump back to highlight shuffle. Does this happen to everyone who doesn't have a touchscreen? I assume it works normally if you have a touchscreen

Hello everyone, I'm experiencing problems integrating MusicBrainz data with Plex. I use Picard to set tags and recognition, but now it's not working at all. Plex isn't detecting new releases or edits I've made. I think the problem is with MusicBrainz, but I'm not sure. Is anyone else having this issue?

If I add files for a new music artist to my NAS, and select Scan Library Files, sometimes half my artists just disappear (literally... 999 artist folders on my NAS, right now only 498 show up in the local Web UI). It takes several "Scan Library Files" more for them to start showing up again. Like I just did another scan and now I'm up to 511. If I do another scan, I'll probably get a couple hundred more.

All my media is sorted through Picard, so I'm reasonably sure all the metadata is accurate and files are properly named and saved.

The NAS doesn't exhibit any problems, and I'm confident it's not asleep when I kick off scans (I just copied files over, and I'm browsing the filesystem).

It seems to happen most when other processes are showing on the dashboard (like recording from HD Homerun, or someone watching/playing other media), but not always.

I wouldn't mind so much, *except* that the artists are true and truly "gone" so they get removed from playlists that I spent long hours curating and aren't returned to the playlists once they finally return in the UI.

Anyone else have any issues like this?

Hoping to maybe get some ideas here. I've got Plex running on my WD EX4100 NAS. Have had it for years along with the lifetime Plex pass. The past 1 1/2 years I've had Plexamp on my Galaxy S22 and connected to my 2024 Bronco via Android auto. All working fine until the past 2 weeks or so. Now I have intermittent audio cutting for a half second every minute of every song when in the car. The only change in that time that I can think of is my carrier changed from US Cellular to T-Mobile. Is it possible that this change is causing the issue? I've only tweaked the audio settings (EQ, etc) in Plexamp. Should I be looking at other settings to see if that will fix things? I'm at a loss currently.

I have a Yamaha receiver to which I am intending to connect a Raspberry pi 4b with a HiFiberry digi+ hat via an optical cable.

My initial intention was to have both the plexamp and server on the same Pi but I am now thinking of putting the Plexserver on an Orange Pi5 I have spare and running the Plexamp on the Raspberry pi using RoPieee XL as the OS.

This means that I will have a more efficient server as it is connected to a Buffalo Link station so will do the uplift from there.

The Orange Pi5 is more than capable providing they I can get it all working

The only question in my mind is that it seems a little overcomplicated for the end result that I am looking for and ongoing maintenance will involve looking after two different hardware solutions.

I could of course simply install Volumio on the Raspberry pi and have a much simpler solution but, it wouldn't have all the functionality that the Plexamp solution has.

Had anyone else gone down a similar route and what would be your advice?

8 Mile: Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture (deluxe limited edition)

https://musicbrainz.org/release/e2c46f54-4e66-4ab0-9ff7-4d616cebfbd9

I just ripped this album and I am unsure how to correctly tag the album so that it shows up correctly in Plex / Plexamp.

First I had the first CD tagged with the complete title and that works, and the second CD with The Shady Aftermath Sampler, but it didn't really work very well. Plex doesn't seem to recognize that this is a two part album and it gets messy.

Any tips?

I have a mac mini 2025 running plex, (plex amp is not),

I log on to any device on my internal network and it plex says it cant connect to the device despite it shows in the list of servers and that they're very bummed about it.

I've looked around and I haven't found a valid explanation of why this happens on a daily basis. My Router is my modem so I don't use any third-party mesh devices in the house. All devices are online and working with my network

This drives me bonkers since recently I have a bad knee, and I have to go 3 flights down to sit on the mac, log on, close and open plex, open, close plexamp, close it again then go up again to log on to my office pc and then I'm able to play some music. I just miss the effortless access i had with ROON minus the Roon Tax.

Can someone suggest what can it be?

Thanks