Plexamp Headless

[Berwhale]

I've been running Plex server for many years (I bought a lifetime Plexpass in 2014) and I am familiar with Plexamp but I only recently stumbled across Plexamp Headless. I set it up yesterday on a Raspberry Pi5 8GB (massive overkill on the hardware!) and connected to my Topping x50 stack...

I used the guide here: https://brentsaltzman.com/install-plexamp-headless/

I also referenced this site: https://howtohifi.com/install-headless-plexamp-endpoint-home-network-raspberry-pi/

I must say that I am most impressed with the performance. Changing tracks from either Plexamp on my phone or from a browser connected directly to Plexamp on the Pi5 is instantaneous and everything feels really responsive. It's also nice to see AutoEQ integration into the EQ within Plexamp, unfortunately it's only GEQ, but i'm hoping they'll add PEQ at some point.

As you can see from the photo above, I have a spare FLIRC RPi4 case*, so I think i'll purchase an RPi4 2GB to become a permanent Plexamp headless source for the x50 stack. Is anyone else running Plexamp Headless in their setup?

*The RPi4 4GB that originally occupied it has gone into my PiCorePlayer setup in the garage: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...coreplayer-streamer.42228/page-2#post-1495871

I would replace the PiCorePlayer setup in the garage, but I want to listen to internet radio streams in there and this doesn't seem to be possible with Plex/Plexamp since they dropped plug-in support and the Shoutcast plug-in.

 

[norcalscott]

Thanks for this - I may re-image my RPi4 that was being used for Volumio to do this instead. I have also been running Plex for many years and have the lifetime pass. Plexamp on both my Android phone and my iPad is fantastic.

 

[Brubaker]

love plexamp on my smartphone+wavelet and my grado gw100x.... no need amp,dac,wires...

 

[aagstn]

I have my pi 5 setup, but my first try following the Lon.TV guide installed Node 18 instead of 16. I will retry using the guide here.

 

[Berwhale]

I have my pi 5 setup, but my first try following the Lon.TV guide installed Node 18 instead of 16. I will retry using the guide here.

Mine did that as well. Step 4 in the guide I linked to... https://brentsaltzman.com/install-plexamp-headless/

Step 4: Check Your Node.js Version​

node -v

If, for some reason, the version that is installed is not 16.x, you can use Node Version Manager (NVM) to change it:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

nvm -v

nvm install v16.20.2

nvm use v16.20.2

 

[aagstn]

Thank you. I needed to restart terminal to get it to do the 16.20.2 switch. Got everything working including it autoloading on reboot. Love that gapless works now. When I use Plexamp on my phone using Chromecast to a Wiim it doesn't support gapless. This is very nice.