![]() I just happen to have about 1TB of music, full albums in ALAC, out of which my five-stars playlist is, like, I dunno, 140 hours worth of that. No, I don’t, but I’m a big proponent of “don’t cripple an app for power users just because it’ll confuse a casual user who gets digging where she shouldn’t be.” Someone else commented somewhere “sO yOu WaNt YoUr EnTiRe LiBrArY oN yOuR pHoNe?!1” and of course I’d never said that. The iPhone Music app had a tendency to play certain songs with increased frequency even when it had the whole playlist and you hit shuffle, and I was going to start making smart playlists like "top rated that haven't been played in the last two weeks" anyway, so maybe this is just another way of looking at that. but if I can find that "refresh when opening app" setting again I'll see if I can make that work, and if that works maybe that's enough. Enough people are like "bruh just open 1,000 images in Photoshop and do them." What if I have 100,000 images? What if I have 10 million? That's why things like that bother me. ![]() ![]() I do a lot if image processing in my day job, for example, that can't be automated only because nobody smart with programming has sat down and figured it out, because the demand for it isn't there. I get twitchy when I have to do something manually with a computer because I'm old enough to remember when computers were touted as machines that would do menial, repetitive tasks for us, and somewhere along the line that stopped happening and a lot of people are okay with that. That might be enough for me but if I have to open the app by hand and go into a menu and find a playlist and click refresh every day, forget it. I saw something while fumbling through the options last night somewhere that said "refresh when opening app" or something but now I forget where it is. (Even though, in principle, the devs should remove this limitation at some point.) Could you walk me through how to set that up? If that's the only problem I end up having with Plexamp I could see myself being okay with it. For the playlists I'm concerned about, they're "My Top Rated" sort of playlists that I only ever shuffle, so that might actually be okay. Since you're actually treating me like a person with feelings and agency, I'll ask you: someone else mentioned I can make a playlist that exceeds 24 hours in length and every time I "sync" it, or whatever Plex calls it, it syncs a different 24 hours of music selected at random so that you always get a fresh set of stuff. I appreciate you taking the time to actually answer my question instead of X/Y probleming me or saying i DoNt KnOw WhY yOuRe So AnGrY (I'm angry because I've been trying to find a way to do this without Plexamp for several years, yesterday I gave up and said screw it, I'll pay for Plexamp and now there are these stupid, arbitrary roadblocks and privileged Europeans with symmetrical gigabit and unlimited mobile data pretending not to know what the issue is). So is this thing that’s been touted as the great iTunes replacement for so long really not all it’s cracked up to be? I’d rather get out now if that’s the case and not waste my time fighting with it. And no, I don’t have unlimited data on my phone and I’m not going to VPN back home to stream the music from my server, that’s stupid. Like others I have large “five stars” and “top rated” playlists that exceed 24 hours of music that I shuffle through while away from home. I thought I’d just transfer my playlists over. I’d rather not maintain a large music collection in two places so I was thinking about moving my iTunes library to Plex and using Plexamp as a replacement player on my computers and my phone.īut I guess I can’t, since I’m seeing a bunch of posts about how Plexamp has arbitrarily limitations on how many songs can be synced to my phone. What Apple used to call iTunes and now calls Music (not their service Apple Music, they just renamed the app) has become a bloated piece of garbage. I bought a month of PlexPass last night so I could evaluate Plexamp.
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