Yep. I'm afraid they're going to "require" that you use Apple Music and HomePods to be useful. I'm pretty interested in trying the product, but that depends on Sonos and Spotify support at minimum.
replyWell, plexamp is a dealbreaker for Apple that more and more wants you to buy Apple Music and all their services. They have more to lose by opening to plexamp users, who are not the more prone to spend money, or other services, than to lock users in their very own walled garden. Open source software on consumer friendly hardware is the way now.
replyI don't know if that's obviously true. I'm sure Plexamp is small potatoes compared to how many are on Apple Music, and there's a solid chance that anyone running a Plex server is doing it on a Mac.
replyDoes it lack support? It says it supports various apps from the App Store or phone, so it might work.
replyI was surprised when I tried using Plexamp with Siri in my car and it worked (this was with the old Siri, not even the new one).
On the specs page it says:
replyApps Available from iPhone:
- Audiobooks
- Classical Music
- News
- TV
Underneath that it says "Supported third-party audio and video apps". I'm not sure what that means.
But yeah! Plexamp works fine with Siri on my phone.
There was something that implied that it was using CarPlay somewhere in the stack.
replyobviously supporting more platforms would be better, but they do have >100 million Apple Music subscribers according to this estimate: https://musically.com/2026/06/17/music-business-ended-2025-w...
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