It seems that a pi-based solution is certainly the best way of going about this, however I've so far found even basic setup guides to be a tad confusing (even moreso when you look at headless setup.pretty much every "beginners guide" has some assumption of prior command-line experience.and when you consider that my only assocaition with the word "sudo" is "make me a sandwich" you hopefully get an idea of where I'm starting from here).
#Plexamp raspberry pi android#
I haven't seen any implicit confirmation that the Android client supports offline play (PlexAmp definitely does). Server hardware costs are pretty much the same. Option 2Ī slightly-less mainstream solution, this doesn't seem to offer a music-specific Android client, however activation costs for the cleint are approximately £5, so significantly cheaper than Plex.
Hardware cost is ~£60 (4Gb model is recommended.2Gb version would work, but very close to the wire), including a case.įor the PlexAmp app, I'm pretty sure that I would need to pay for a "PlexPass" license, and to avoid monthly/year subscriptions, that would be just shy of £100, putting me slightly over budget.
#Plexamp raspberry pi install#
I have a 128Gb Micro-SD card that can be used as both OS install and library storage. From some reading, I would probably also want it headless (aka controlled from my main machine). Main challenge would be that I have zero experience with Linux or Raspberry-pi.or anyhting even vaguely similar.
In the short-term I've moved over to Pulsar, which is an ad-free off-line mp3 player for Android.however the only-offline bit is a bit annoying unless I want to upload the entire library (and as Pixel phones don't have expandable storage, a 50Gb library is approximately half of the available device storage). The main kicker for me is that downloading music to your device is only available in the Premium subscription (£9.99 a month, or ~£120/year). Google are now jumping on the "paid services for everything" bandwagon, including shutting down Google Music and transferring everything to YouTube Music.which is not really very good. I've made a lot of use of the hybrid downloaded/streamed data model on my phone (I spend a fair bit of time out of network connectivity.be it holidays or cycling in the middle of nowhere). I've been using Google Music for years.I spent about a week while in Glenrosa ripping and uploading all my CD's across about 4 PC's, having all the CD drives whirring full-time, and I have/had a gloriously curated ~6,000 song/50Gb library of music.
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