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Plexamp Lite 1.11: Minamp is now Plexamp Lite
Renames the app (label, texts, log files, Plex product name, User-Agent, APK). The package
name, preferences and signing key stay, so it installs over Minamp and keeps its settings.
tools/strings.py catches up with the strings added straight to the XML in 9440536.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Minamp
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# Plexamp Lite
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A small Plexamp-style music player for Plex, built for the Samsung Galaxy Mini (GT-S5570:
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Android 2.2/2.3, 240×320 ldpi screen, 600 MHz ARMv6, 384 MB RAM). Runs on any Android 2.2+ phone.
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## Install
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1. On the phone: **Settings → Applications → Unknown sources** (tick it).
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2. Copy `Minamp.apk` to the SD card (USB cable, or download it in the browser) and open it
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with a file manager, or from a computer: `adb install Minamp.apk`.
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3. Minamp installs to internal storage (about 1 MB): an app on the SD card is killed whenever the
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2. Copy `PlexampLite.apk` to the SD card (USB cable, or download it in the browser) and open it
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with a file manager, or from a computer: `adb install PlexampLite.apk`.
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3. Plexamp Lite installs to internal storage (about 1 MB): an app on the SD card is killed whenever the
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phone shares its SD card over USB, which stopped the music.
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## Sign in
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Open Minamp → **Sign in with Plex**. It shows a 4-character code; on any other device go to
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**plex.tv/link** and type it in. Minamp then lists your servers (owned and shared) and music libraries.
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Open Plexamp Lite → **Sign in with Plex**. It shows a 4-character code; on any other device go to
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**plex.tv/link** and type it in. Plexamp Lite then lists your servers (owned and shared) and music libraries.
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*Connect to a server address* is the manual fallback: an IP/hostname plus an optional X-Plex-Token.
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## Streaming from anywhere
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After sign-in Minamp knows every address Plex advertises for your server and picks the best
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After sign-in Plexamp Lite knows every address Plex advertises for your server and picks the best
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working one, re-checking whenever the phone switches network:
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| Order | Connection | When it's used |
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| 2 | Home network, plain HTTP | On your Wi-Fi (fast: no encryption work for the phone) |
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| 3 | Home network, HTTPS (`*.plex.direct`) | On your Wi-Fi if plain HTTP is refused, or if *Settings → Encrypt at home too* is on |
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| 4 | Remote, HTTPS | Away, if Remote Access is set up on the server |
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| 5 | Plex Relay | Away, when the server isn't reachable directly (bandwidth-capped; Minamp caps itself at 192 kbps) |
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| 5 | Plex Relay | Away, when the server isn't reachable directly (bandwidth-capped; Plexamp Lite caps itself at 192 kbps) |
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Secure addresses are tried one at a time: on a 600 MHz phone a TLS handshake takes seconds, and
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several at once make each of them time out. Minamp uses TLS 1.2 with session resumption, so only
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several at once make each of them time out. Plexamp Lite uses TLS 1.2 with session resumption, so only
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the first connection to each server pays the full cost; later ones resume in a fraction of it.
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For the best remote experience enable **Settings → Remote Access** on your Plex Media Server.
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Without it, Relay still works.
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Android 2.x can't do modern TLS, so Minamp bundles its own TLS 1.2/1.3 stack (Bouncy Castle,
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Android 2.x can't do modern TLS, so Plexamp Lite bundles its own TLS 1.2/1.3 stack (Bouncy Castle,
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renamed to `com.minamp.bc` so it doesn't clash with the old copy inside Android) and verifies
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certificates against Mozilla's root store (from `certifi`). A tiny loopback proxy feeds the
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phone's media player, so HTTPS streams and relay work the same as local ones. If the phone's
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(default 192 kbps) caps both while the sound goes to a Bluetooth speaker: on the Mini, Wi-Fi and
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Bluetooth share one radio, and a lighter stream keeps the speaker from stuttering.
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* Seeking in a transcoded track restarts the transcode at the new position.
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* If a stream fails, Minamp re-picks the connection and resumes; if it fails again it downloads
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* If a stream fails, Plexamp Lite re-picks the connection and resumes; if it fails again it downloads
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the whole track first and plays from the SD card. "Download tracks before playing" forces that
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mode (useful on flaky mobile data). Playback that stalls ("playing" but the time doesn't move
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for 10 s) is recovered the same way.
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* A Bluetooth speaker that drops its link for a moment pauses Minamp, which resumes by itself if the
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* A Bluetooth speaker that drops its link for a moment pauses Plexamp Lite, which resumes by itself if the
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speaker is back within 20 s. Why playback paused or stopped is written to the connection log.
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* Plays are reported to Plex (Now Playing in the Plex dashboard, play counts, resume position).
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the SD card. MP3 originals are kept as they are (unless above a lower *Download quality* in
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Settings); everything else is transcoded to MP3, 320 kbps by default. Downloaded tracks play from
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the SD card, offline too, and plays made offline are reported to Plex later.
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* *Menu -> Close Minamp* stops the music and closes every screen.
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* *Menu -> Close Plexamp Lite* stops the music and closes every screen.
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* Wired headset button: 1 click play/pause, 2 next, 3 previous; Bluetooth media keys;
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pauses for calls and when headphones are unplugged.
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```
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tools/setup_toolchain.sh # once: fetches aapt2, the API 8 android.jar, builds dx, renames Bouncy Castle
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./build.sh # -> build/Minamp.apk
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./build.sh # -> build/PlexampLite.apk
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```
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`build.sh` runs `aapt2` (resources), `javac` (Java 8 bytecode checked against the API 8
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