Plex's music player, now works with ChatGPT for playlist creation

Plexamp

Plexamp

  -  81.6 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Plexamp 4.11.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 64 / Windows 8 64 / Windows 10 64 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Plex, Inc / External Link

  • Filename

    Plexamp Setup 4.11.0.exe

Imagine loving music so much that they poured their heart, soul, and engineering know-how into creating a completely custom music player for audiophiles just like them. Well, that's exactly what they did. Rediscover, curate, or completely lose yourself in the music that made them with Plexamp.

Now FREE to music lovers everywhere, Plexamp for Windows PC is more than just an app, it's a playground for them to explore their library, discover new music, and have fun, all inside a beautifully crafted interface. They've reserved a select group of features in the app exclusively for Plex Pass members.

Highlights

Oh-So-Sexy Super Sonic
Meet the neural network that analyzes their music library, powering new features and improving existing ones. Why use generalized metadata to find similar artists when they can discover what artists, albums, and songs are truly related using their sophisticated sonic technology?

Radio Star
Their Sonic data provides a superb basis for building Track Radio and Album Radio, which plays sonically similar albums.

In the Mix
Have their server check out the albums they've had on heavy rotation recently, cluster them into mixes, or look back in time and make a few historical mixes.

On This Day
Get nostalgic about their music with reminders of an album's birthday. See what albums were released 20, 30, or even 50 years ago.

Album Types
Not every album is an "album." Some are live, some are demos, some are EPs. And now they organize albums by type on the artist page.

All Gas, No "Breaks"
Take their music on the road with CarPlay and Android Auto. And with powerful offline support, they can download a few hours of their favorite playlist or stations to keep them company when they go off-grid.

Music to Their Eyes
Experience their music collection like they've never seen it before, with UltraBlur backgrounds, over a dozen hypnotic visualizers, and four visual themes to satisfy every taste.

Play Music, Don't Stop
Loudness leveling, true gapless playback, sweet fades, and more. Custom pre-caching so their music keeps playing, because sometimes life brings them through tunnels.

FAQ

Is Plexamp FREE?
Yes, Plexamp is indeed FREE. However, please note that certain features within the application are accessible only with the purchase of a Plex Pass membership. We assure you that the investment is worthwhile!

Do I require a Plex media server to utilize Plexamp?
Yes and no. If you're a Tidal subscriber, you can use the app without setting up a media server. However, to play your own collection, you'll need one.

What is Plex?
Plex is your all-in-one destination for streaming movies, TV shows, sports, and music. It stands as the most comprehensive entertainment platform available today. You can access Plex on nearly any device. Plex is unique in being the first and only streaming platform that provides free, ad-supported movies, shows, and Live TV, all while making it easy for you to search and add any title ever created to your Watchlist, regardless of which streaming service it's on. With 13 million (and counting!) monthly active users relying on Plex as their entertainment guide, you can expect new discoveries and recommendations from all your favorite streaming apps, personal media libraries, and beyond.

Pricing

Yes, you get a lot of amazing features for free with Plexamp app. But a lot more are unlocked with a Plex Pass membership. Take a look and take your pick.

Plexamp for All - FREE
  • Gapless playback
  • Loudness leveling
  • Sweet Fades
  • Advanced pre-caching
  • Smart playlists & stations
  • Unlimited streaming
  • Visualizers
  • UltraBlur Backgrounds & Themes
  • Android Auto & Carplay
  • Chromecast & AirPlay
  • Siri
  • Write to NFC tags
Plexamp with Plex Pass

Features Unlocked with Membership - Upgrade for $4.99 / Month
  • Artist & Album Mix Builders
  • Sonically similar artists/tracks/albums
  • Super Sonic
  • Sonic Sage
  • Sonic Adventure
  • Downloads
  • Guest DJ
  • Aural Fixations
  • Headless Plexamp on Raspberry Pi
  • Lyrics
  • Autoplay
  • Home screen customization
  • Ten-Band Equalizer
  • Related Tracks
  • Server Features
  • Track & Album Radio
  • Sample Rate Matching
PROS
  • Custom music player for audiophiles.
  • Free access for music lovers.
  • Beautifully crafted interface.
  • Sonic technology for music analysis.
  • Track and Album Radio.
  • Mix creation and historical mixes.
  • Nostalgic reminders.
  • Organized albums by type.
  • Visualizers and visual themes.
  • Gapless playback and loudness leveling.
  • Offline support.
CONS
  • Some features require a Plex Pass membership.
  • Media server needed for personal collections.
  • Limited access without Tidal subscription.
  • Monthly subscription fee for advanced features.
Conclusion

All in all, it has decided to reserve its advanced features, such as the AI-powered Sonic Sage playlist builder, downloads, and artist/album mix builders, exclusively for its paying subscribers who opt for the $4.99/month Plex Pass subscription. This subscription not only grants access to these music-related enhancements but also offers a comprehensive set of features to elevate the overall Plex experience.

These include DVR recording for Live TV, the ability to skip movie and TV show credits and intros, premium music features, and various advanced technical capabilities. The FileHorse review team highly recommends this outstanding music player app.

Also Available: Download Plexamp for Mac

What's new in this version:

Added:
- Allow context menu for Up Next items as well
- When 1-Tap playback is disabled, show a confirmation dialog when performing destructive queue actions
- Play count in player menu top area
- Add an “Add to Queue” action which always adds to end for smaller non-radio play queues, and rename “Add to Queue” action to “Add to Up Next”
- Move hemisphere preference to the charts context menu
- Headless: New /image endpoint for IoT
- Basic multiuser support when casting to Plexamp
- Refresh home screen after creating new playlist so it shows up
- Seeking in Opus files before they’re completely buffered
- Settings: Minor facelift
- Settings: Move the cheese. Consolidate Device settings under Experience and Playback, redesign debug
- Don’t show “Add to Up Next” when there is no Up Next region
- Remove Chart Length preference and always show 100 items
- Sonic Sage: Upgrade to the new gpt-4o model for faster and cheaper results
- At larger screen sizes, show Previous track button on miniplayer
- Links to ToS and privacy policy on About page
- Mesh: Clicking on album browses into album (needs updated mesh nodes)
- Added Bulgarian translations :bulgaria:

Fixed:
- Ensure there are 5 tracks in Related after clicking More
- Play queue item menu could incorrectly show “Play Track Radio”
- Show DJ generated icon in Back To as well
- Initial click/tap on rating stars could lead to incorrect ratings
- Writing files could fail (e.g. seekprint cache)
- On rare occasions, upcoming tracks could disappear
- Stop applying +6 dB gain to DSD files in the player
- When starting app on settings tab, navigating from player didn’t work
- Improve reliability of broadcast player discovery
- Improve short time duration formatting (time track last played)
- Stopping playback didn’t always clear the seesion on the server
- Don’t stop or skip to next album on right click, only long press
- Resuming transcoded playback in the middle would start at the beginning
- When cache metadata read fails, reset underlying cache file
- Improve search term clean-up
- In some cases, caching MP4 tracks could result in erroneously huge files
- In some (rare!) cases, a track could fade in prematurely
- Crash in rare cases when stopping playback
- Navigating quickly into collections or genres and then a specific one could fail
- Take into account about-to-be-cached file size when checking cache
- Edit in Mix Builder action didn’t work for Album Mixes
- Make PIN button background stand out more
- Rename 1-Tap Track Plays to 1-Tap Playback
- Adding to existing play queue didn’t kick off pre-caching
- Disk cache low-space threshold was too low at 16 MB, changed to 1 GB
- Filter rule popup wasn’t centered in some cases
- Player menu wasn’t showing poster for offline tracks
- Keyboard could reappear incorrectly after returning to search screen
- Performance issue when switching types in playlists
- When showing playlists as albums, show artist title as well
- Don’t show play icon in menu if the item has not been played
- Use library sort order for album/artist lists (genre, mood, record label, etc)
- Setup titles could be blank on some screens
- Improve the consistency of some of our icons
- Use the same menu for Related tab as Up Next and Back To
- Some screen navigations were subtly broken in French
- In some cases, incorrect byte sizes could be shown
- Make Visualizer menu more consistent with other menus
- Show confirmation when track is playing from large play buttons on details screens
- Poster Upload/Edit buttons could be cut off by long titles
- Raise size of lookahead when skipping albums to 50 tracks
- Jump bar in Library > Playlists was broken
- Album and Artist radio buttons on preplays didn’t honour 1-Tap preference
- Make swipe detection on Miniplayer more robust
- Fixed a reported crash when generating a background gradient for Sonic Sage prompts
- Recently played carousel item was missing on artist preplay after a recent server update
- Mix Builder screen didn’t indicate it’s a Plex Pass feature
- Scrolling down on Player could incorrectly trigger a swipe gesture on the Visualizer
- Move chart context menu to top right
- Move downloads context menu to top right
- Improve appearance of Plex Pass upsell cards
- Make it easier to hit ‘x’ button in lists
- Show loading indicator for lyrics
- Next button was disabled under mini-controls for This Device
- Entering spaces in codec filter could break library display
- Offline: In some cases after deleting an item, it could continue downloading
- Offline: Show album title above album artist
- Offline: Improve status text when an item has nothing downloaded
- Offline: Downloads could complete but fail to show any tracks until refreshed
- Offline: Incomplete downloads could fail to complete after startup
- Offline: Incomplete items could show as downloaded and not complete properly
- Mobile: Pop to top of library/home tabs when switching libraries
- iOS: Downloading > 2GB files would result in re-downloading
- iOS: More reliable resuming of playback using e.g. Bluetooth
- iOS: Some lists (e.g. Style Radio) were loading with duplicates
- iPad: Alignment of refresh button in cast dialog
- iPad: Some newer models had cramped tab bars
- Android: Low-level audio crash
- Android: Resolved shadow glitch when closing player menu
- Android: Touch feedback was missing in some places
- Android Auto: Toggling shuffle had no effect
- Linux: Higher network speed limits were not being respected
- Linux: Improve network precaching speeds
- Linux: When transferring in-progress paused track, audio system wouldn’t quiesce
- Desktop: Right clicking on some … menus could result in multiple menus
- Desktop: Mix Builders have extra space with bouncy scrolling off
- Desktop: Improve spacing in Mix Builder grid
- Desktop: Some shortcut keys didn’t record correctly (e.g. numpad keys)
- Desktop: In some cases, play queue wouldn’t pre-cache correctly
- Desktop: Improve memory usage during caching
- Desktop: Toggle component disabled state looked funky
- Desktop: Upgrade Electron
- Browser: Don’t show font size setting
- Browser: Web UI now scales correctly in mobile browsers
- Browser: DJ Doppelgänger didn’t work
- Browser: Poster resolutions didn’t show
- Mesh: Don’t try to connect on cellular or offline
- Mesh: Make sure we’re connected when foregrounding app
- Mesh: Improve reliability of upgrade script
- Mesh: Prevent simultaneous installs
- Mesh: Improve update icon
- Update translations