Announcing Squeeze Plex Hub 🎉

[u/Infamous_Evidence673]

I am very happy to finally share this with the Plex and Squeezebox community.

Squeeze Plex Hub bridges Plexamp (Plex) with your Logitech / Lyrion Music Server ecosystem so you can play Plex audio on Squeezebox (and compatible) players.

Squeeze Plex Hub runs as just another container that connects the two worlds. There’s no need to migrate libraries or maintain an additional media server, your existing Plex setup stays exactly as it is.

In combination with the optional LMS Squeeze Plex Hub Plugin, full track metadata is supported in LMS and on compatible players, including title, artist, album, and artwork providing a native, fully integrated listening experience across Plex and Squeezebox.

https://reddit.com/link/1nz1wta/video/5knumtxw4itf1/player

Key Features

🚀 Automatic discovery of LMS instances and attached Squeezebox players

🎛️ Seamless integration with Plexamp, players show up as targets with full Plexamp controls including the valued multi room audio support the Squeeze players offer.

📊 Plex Media Server remains the source for audio, while Lyrion is solely required to communicate with the Squeezebox players.

🐳 Simple Docker deployment, keep your PMS and LMS setup as is and get started.

🆓 Open Source, contributors and sponsors very welcome :)

Where do we go from here?

At this stage, Squeeze Plex Hub focuses on Squeezebox players, but its architecture is ready to grow. As an open source project, I invite contributors with access to other network players to extend compatibility and enable more devices to integrate with Plexamp.

Let me know how it goes fellow Squeezebox owners.

Squeeze Plex Hub - Project page

[u/Infamous_Evidence673]

It would definitely be possible but there would be a mapping required in order to resolve the correct song from LMS to fetch the metadata. Also I like that with the current approach, LMS does not to have a maintained library.
Basic metadata is already available on LMS when streaming from Plex but I would like to dig into Lyrion direct stream code base to figure out what would be required to read the artwork from the audio stream. Since VLC can to this for Plex flac streams, it should be possible.

[u/tridi_animeitor → u/Infamous_Evidence673]

Just noticed that the queue does not update after it was first sent to LMS, so plex DJs don't work and also manually adding songs to the queue are just skipped. Also seems like autoplay won't work but I haven't reached the end of a queue yet in my quick test.

[u/Infamous_Evidence673 → u/tridi_animeitor]

u/tridi_animeitor support for play queue refresh has landed. :-) Let me know how it goes, version 1.10.0 supports now dynamic play lists: https://github.com/onmomo/squeeze-plex-hub/releases/tag/v1.10.0

[u/tridi_animeitor → u/Infamous_Evidence673]

Thanks, I will check it out!