Beta Test: Plex

[tgp-2]

I can’t see that a Plex endpoint is any more complex than any of them

headless Plexamp is a fully independent player instance and does some things different vs most other receiver/connect endpoints ... for example, it caches entire files for at least current + next track

 

[Burnside]

headless Plexamp is a fully independent player instance and does some things different vs most other receiver/connect endpoints ... for example, it caches entire files for at least current + next track

A bit like Amazon Music then on echo and other devices I suspect. Let’s see what WiiM and Plex can achieve then…

 

[pieterv1]

I’d expect that for the Mini but not necessarily so for the others due to their greater ram and number of cpu cores - after all, they already accommodate the requirements and act as Connect endpoints/renderers for UPnP, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon Music, Sqeezelite etc and I can’t see that a Plex endpoint is any more complex than any of them

Well it is a bit more complex... for a Raspberry PI to act as an endpoint, it runs a full instance of Plex headless and it can do DSP stuff like limiting, normalisation, EQ, fades. The implementation on the WiiM devices would have to be a bit more barebones (which I wouldn't mind - I just want bit-perfect playback)

* oops: what tgp-2 said