Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is now free, the company announced today. The project was first launched in 2017 as Plex’s own spin on the classic Winamp media player app, offering visualizations to accompany your tunes, tools for programming mixes, and more recently, a ChatGPT-powered “Sonic Sage” […]

Well this is cool. Now time for me to a media server again.

  • Kioga@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I heard about this yesterday and I downloaded the plexamp app on my windows desktop to try it. When I ran it, the first thing it had me do was sign into it with my plex account. It then tossed an error at me telling me that I need to subscribe to plex pass to use it. I don’t understand the “free” part about this plexamp going free announcement.

      • Kioga@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I had the same assumption. Or maybe nobody uses the windows version, lol. I did a Google search and checked the plex forums, nobody was talking about the issue. I just sort of walked away after that.

        Still, very odd to make an announcement that’s literally not true. Gotta be something weird on my end I guess?

        • Welp_im_damned@lemdro.idOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Same thing happened to me as well. So I assumed it was some server side update that hasn’t gotten pushed out yet

    • MxM111@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes, the same way I can watch movies for free on Netflix, after I sign in with my account.