Plexamp review11/22/2023 ![]() Pretty much a guarantee the only new releases I'll see are huge names. New releases - I understand the limitations but Plexamp only seeing the 100 or whatever new releases is pretty limiting.I realize volume normalization is the devil, but with my eyes shut I could always easily tell when a song from Tidal comes on. Tidal song volume is louder than my library.The idea of having Tidal library + my personal library seemed like the utopia I had with GPM, but it falls short in several places. While I could categorize most of this in "Areas for Potential Improvement", I felt like Tidal really deserves its own spot. Unlike normal metadata based matching, this will get similar songs matched together even if the artists are distant. I love being in total control of adding things to the top or bottom of queue. Queue system - its sad I have to even highlight this, but so many services get this wrong (cough spotify).If you drive a lot in dead spots, its great that Plexamp is constantly caching your queue ahead of time so playback is uninterrupted. Google Play Music did this but YTM seemingly does not. This is a big one that Plexamp does flawlessly. (Don't flame me on this, I'm just explaining my use case) I know several people want to download their entire catalog but that defeats the purpose of Plex server in my opinion - I just have it smart download my liked songs/library radio and am pretty content with that. Downloads feature has worked flawlessly for me.While it has some quirks (some I go into below), its pretty consistent. The interface is pretty clean and makes sense.I honestly listen to this more than anything else and is one of those features I never knew I wanted until I had it. ![]() The Library radio is great - it mixes liked songs with popular tracks from my library.Starting off with the things I absolutely love about Plexamp. I had never really rated a song in any service until recently and am not a playlist person. I primarily listen to music as either entire albums or library on random. I was a big Google Play Music user/subscriber that took full advantage of the combo of streaming+music locker service, but the YouTube Music transition has been less than stellar for my habits for a lot of reasons I won't go into. I'm a very long time Plex user but never really used it for music prior to this year. I'm a huge fan of Plexamp, so going into this note that while I am critical in several areas, overall I'm at like an 8.5/10 satisfaction. However, I've been out of the HiFi game for a long time, relying purely on podcasts and Spotify for the last decade or so I'm not really familiar with either of these apps or services.I thought it might be interesting and/or helpful to share my experiences of Plexamp over the last several months, along with several suggestions for improvement that I've encountered. I am a certified "old" in that I remember the days of ripping CDs, tagging files, Winamp, and Foobar2k. They also came with 3 months of free Tidal and I have just discovered that Plex can use Tidal as a source which is really cool. I just received my Kickstarter for the NuraTrue Pro lossless earbuds which has revitalised my love of music.
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