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by retrodaredevil 503 days ago
As a Plex and Plexamp user, I'm curious about a few features: mobile support doesn't seem to be mentioned. Is there a mobile app? Are smart playlists a feature? What about gapless playback? Can you elaborate on the 5 star system for rating tracks, albums and artists?

Overall the feature set really speaks to me, as I have a bunch of CD rips tagged using MusicBrainz Picard with a couple of deluxe and non-deluxe versions thrown in of the same album. I think I'll have to give it a try either way because you're touching on a niche Plex just doesn't seem to care about.
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arti_chaud 503 days ago
Glad you find Meelo interesting! Thanks

As of today, there are no plans for a mobile app (I've thought about it a couple of times, but I don't have the bandwidth for that atm).

No smart playlists, just a simple playlist system. No gapless playback either.

There is no ratin system either (I hardly use this feature myself on other platforms, so it is not part of the roadmap (yet?)).

The only 'ratings' are for albums, and are scrapped from websites like Metacritic or AllMusic.

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CableNinja 503 days ago
If you could implement the OpenSubsonicAPI, you could solve the mobile issue easy, and dont even have to build a mobile app
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a-french-anon 502 days ago
I think you'll find the population anal enough about different album versions and the one who can't do without gapless playback overlaps significantly.

I'll add that proper ReplayGain handling is also a must.

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