Great, thanks for this guide will set it up later. Would love some more integrated solution but this is great for now.
So for me PlexAmp (and Plex in general) provides a central location for my music not only on my network but also when I am away from home (via its excellent IOS and Android Apps). The headless RPI option (And the ability to run side by side with Moode) mostly means I can have a single set of playlists, a single source of "playback tracking" what I have played recently etc
Plex also has some lovely metadata eg. album reviews, lyrics (almost like Roon) and if you run Plex on an Intel machine (with a GPU) you get some ML / Sonic analysis. This sonic analysis is then available to all clients including the headless RPI client. So It can do things like create 'radio' stations based around sonically similar albums that I have in my collection.
I feel the headless PlexAmp lacks some control over the DAC hardware that Moode provides and the Equaliser is very primitive so having both options on the one bit of hardware is great IMO
So for me PlexAmp (and Plex in general) provides a central location for my music not only on my network but also when I am away from home (via its excellent IOS and Android Apps). The headless RPI option (And the ability to run side by side with Moode) mostly means I can have a single set of playlists, a single source of "playback tracking" what I have played recently etc
Plex also has some lovely metadata eg. album reviews, lyrics (almost like Roon) and if you run Plex on an Intel machine (with a GPU) you get some ML / Sonic analysis. This sonic analysis is then available to all clients including the headless RPI client. So It can do things like create 'radio' stations based around sonically similar albums that I have in my collection.
I feel the headless PlexAmp lacks some control over the DAC hardware that Moode provides and the Equaliser is very primitive so having both options on the one bit of hardware is great IMO
