[How to do instruction] Install Plexamp Side-by-Side with moOde

[Mattt]

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

Not a plex user but I've just had a quick look at plexamp.
What is the benefit of doing this, it looks like you're just going to have two things that essentially have the same function?
Why wouldn't you just use the one you prefer?
What am I missing ?

Plex / Plexamp is many miles ahead of moOde with respect to building and maintaining playlists, as well as generating “smart” playlists, and also handles media metadata automatically for you in a fairly sophisticated way.

moOde is miles ahead of Plexamp with respect to a pure sound path and offers excellent support for internet radio which Plexamp does not offer at all.

If I know exactly what album / track I want to listen to and I want to listen to it bitperfect, or if I want to listen to one or another internet radio station, I’m using moOde. If I want to randomly background listen to everything in my own library that is tagged with a certain “mood”, or create a “smart” playlist with many different criteria, then I’m using Plexamp.

I use each of them for different purposes / different kinds of listening. Being able to do so through the same hardware without fiddling with cables or switches is a big plus for me.

Interesting stuff. Thanks