Lagu for Android TV

Plex music on Android TV
and Google TV.

Lagu for Android TV plays the music library on your Plex Media Server on a Google TV streaming box, a television with Google TV built in, or any Android TV device. It is written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for a D-pad remote, and it ships under the same Google Play listing as the phone app.

Open beta · Google Play Same purchase as the phone Kotlin · Compose

The Tide visualizer fullscreen on Android TV with synced lyrics beside it: a blue wave rising along the bottom left over a dark blue background, lyrics for The Logical Song by Supertramp on the right with the current line in white, and the cover, title, artist, album, and a progress line in the bottom left corner.

01 · On the television

Built for
a D-pad.

Every screen is laid out for focus navigation: up, down, left, right, select. Lagu works on remotes that have no play and pause key, which covers most of the ones that come in the box. Back at a tab root asks before it leaves Lagu while music plays, and Exit keeps your queue for next time.

Your library

Home shelves, playlists, artists, albums, songs, collections, genres, styles, and moods, with a year filter and sorting by year, format, and bitrate. Several music libraries on one server arrive merged into one list.

Lyrics beside the art

Synced lyrics scroll next to the cover, or take the whole screen. They come from your server: Plex-fetched with Plex Pass, or your own .lrc files without it.

Six fullscreen visualizers

Spectrum, Radial, Tide, Orbit, Oscilloscope, and Trackprint, edge to edge in the album’s colors. Press Down for synced lyrics beside them, and change the mode or seek without leaving fullscreen.

An Up Next you can edit

Reorder and remove tracks from the remote, without reaching for a phone.

Radio and Autoplay

Stations from a track, artist, album, genre, or decade, Deep Cuts, Guest DJ, and Autoplay when a queue runs out.

Server switching

Move between the Plex servers on your account from Settings, without signing out.

Hold Select for more

On a song, album, or playlist, Play Next and Add to Queue. On a Home tile, View Artist, View Album, and View Playlist as well.

02 · Sound

The same audio engine
as the phone.

Lossless direct play

FLAC direct-plays from your server with no transcode. On a slow link, pick a streaming quality from 320 down to 128 kbps instead.

Gapless playback

Built on Media3, so consecutive tracks on an album play without a gap.

Crossfade and leveling

Crossfade from 1 to 12 seconds, Smart Fades when your server has analyzed the track’s loudness, and loudness leveling set before the first note. A track your server hasn’t analyzed starts 8 dB down.

Scrobbling

Last.fm and ListenBrainz, and your Plex server keeps its own play counts either way.

On screen

Lagu on Android TV,
screen by screen.

The Home screen on Android TV: a Good afternoon greeting reading Turn it up with a Rowdy Radio button, an Or start with one of these row of three albums by Blur, Sublime, and Elton John, and a Recently Played row below, under a top bar reading Home, Library, Radio, Search, the current track, and Settings. — Home: a station for the moment, picks to start with, and Recently Played.

The Library screen on Android TV: eight tiles in two rows for Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Collections, Genres, Styles, and Moods, with Library focused in the top bar. — Library: playlists, artists, albums, songs, collections, genres, styles, and moods.

The Radio screen on Android TV: Stations with Deep Cuts and Library Shuffle, a Made For You row of artist mixes for Gorillaz, Tame Impala, The Beatles, Ten Years After, and Dua Lipa, and the start of a Moods row. — Radio: Deep Cuts, Library Shuffle, Made For You mixes, and moods.

Lagu Now Playing on Android TV with lyrics: synced lyrics on the left with the current line highlighted, and on the right the album cover, track title, a FLAC 16/44.1 quality label, a five-star rating, the rainbow seek bar, transport controls, and Lyrics and Full Lyrics buttons. The top bar reads Home, Library, Radio, Search, the current track, and Settings. — Synced lyrics beside the player, with the current line highlighted.

Lagu on Android TV with the Radial visualizer fullscreen: a pulsing pink and orange disc over a warm background taken from the album cover, with the cover, track title, artist, album, and a progress line in the bottom left. — The Radial visualizer, fullscreen, in the colors of the album that is playing.

Lagu Now Playing on Android TV without lyrics: a large album cover on the left, and on the right the album name, track title, artist, a FLAC 16/44.1 label, a five-star rating, the rainbow seek bar, transport controls, and buttons for Up Next, Lyrics, Cover Art, and DJ. — Now Playing, with the format, your rating, and the rainbow seek bar.

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LAGU REMOTE

It keeps hosting when you leave the app.

Turn on Remote in Settings and the TV shows a QR code and a six-digit PIN. A paired iPhone or Android phone can browse, search, queue, and seek on the TV over your own Wi-Fi. Android TV keeps hosting after you back out of Lagu, so the phone stays connected while the TV shows something else. Settings lists each paired phone with when it was last seen, and a Forget button.

Lagu on an Android phone acting as the remote for a Google TV streaming box: album cover, track title, star rating, and rainbow seek bar, with a banner reading Controlling onn. 4K Streaming Box and a Disconnect button above the transport controls.

What it doesn’t do

The gaps,
listed.

The TV app is for playback in the room. Some phone features are not on it. The platform table has every feature, cell by cell.

No downloads

Android TV streams from your server. Downloads are on Android phones and tablets, SD card included.

No EQ, waveform seek, or sleep timer

Those are on the phone, tablet, and desktop apps.

Collections to browse

Plex Collections open as a grid of their albums or artists. Playing a whole collection at once is on the phone and desktop.

Visualizers ask for the microphone

Android’s visualizer API requires the record-audio permission to read Lagu’s own audio session. Nothing is recorded or sent. Decline it and you keep the cover art.

Getting it

From download
to music playing.

Join on Google Play

Open Lagu’s Google Play link from the download page and join the test with the Google account on your TV. One $1.99 purchase covers the phone too.

Install from Google Play

Install Lagu from Play on the TV itself, or send it to the TV from the Play website.

Link your Plex account

Lagu shows a short code. Enter it at plex.tv/link on any device, choose your server, and start playing.

Questions

Asked about
this platform.

Is there a Plex music app for Android TV or Google TV?

Yes. Lagu is a music player for Plex with a dedicated Android TV app that also runs on Google TV. It plays your Plex music library with gapless lossless playback, synced lyrics, fullscreen visualizers, and radio, and a phone can control it with Lagu Remote.

Does Lagu work on Fire TV?

Yes, on Fire TV devices that run Fire OS 7 or later, such as the Fire TV Stick 4K, 4K Max, and Cube. The Android TV app comes through the Amazon Appstore, and during the beta Amazon invites testers by email: sign up on the download page with the address on your Amazon account. The newest sticks, the 4K Select and the 2026 Stick HD, run Vega OS instead, which can’t run Android apps.

Which Android TV and Google TV devices does it run on?

Lagu runs on Android TV and Google TV devices, streaming boxes and televisions alike, and it is tested on a Google TV streaming box. It does not depend on a play and pause key, so the simpler remotes work.

Do I pay separately for the Android TV app?

No. One $1.99 Google Play purchase covers Android phone, tablet, and Android TV, and it works with Google Play Family Library. During the beta it’s bought through Google Play’s open testing, and you keep it at launch. There is no subscription. Fire TV is separate: Amazon’s test is free during the beta.

Does Lagu for Android TV need Plex Pass?

No. Playback, the library, search, playlists, the queue, and Lagu Remote work without it. Sonic radio, moods, and Plex-fetched lyrics rely on Plex Pass on the server, as they do in any Plex client.

Lagu on other screens: iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Apple TV · Android · macOS · Windows · Linux · every feature

Bring your library along.

The open beta is here. Desktop is free, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV are free while the beta runs, and Android is $1.99 once on Google Play.

Download Lagu

Plex music on Android TVand Google TV.

Built fora D-pad.