Lagu for Android

A Plex music player
for Android.

Lagu for Android plays the music library on your Plex Media Server on phones and tablets, from Android 8 up. It is written in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on Media3, casts to network speakers, downloads to an SD card, and comes with Android Auto. One Google Play listing covers the phone, tablet, and Android TV apps.

Open beta · Google Play Android 8 and up · Compose $1.99 once

Lagu’s Home screen on an Android phone: a Good evening greeting reading Shuffle your library, Library Radio and Shuffle Library buttons, a Recently Played row, the start of Made For You, and the mini-player and navigation bar.

Now Playing on an Android phone for House of the Rising Sun by The Animals: the album cover, a five-star rating, a FLAC 24-bit / 96 kHz label, the rainbow seek bar, transport controls, and a volume slider.

The album page for Duran Duran’s Rio on an Android phone: the cover and the track list, with Hungry Like the Wolf highlighted as the playing track.

01 · On the phone

Made for
Android.

Widgets and the lock screen

Now Playing, Quick Play, and This Week widgets, controls on the lock screen, and a Play from your Buds or car picks up your last queue.

Hey Google

“Hey Google, play … on Lagu” works on the phone as well as in the car, and Samsung Modes and Routines can pick Lagu as your music app.

Galaxy Watch and Wear OS

The watch shows the title, the cover, and the real Up Next from the phone, with the controls to match.

Network speakers

Cast to a WiiM or another DLNA speaker. The volume keys set the speaker’s own level, seeking works, and casting carries on with the screen locked.

Android Auto

Home shelves, Library, Search, and Downloads on the car screen, with voice search, playlists, and the queue.

Downloads, SD card included

Albums, playlists, artists, and songs, on internal storage or an SD card, at Original quality or 320 down to 128 kbps. Lyrics are saved with them.

Drive the computer from the phone

The lock screen, notification, and headphone buttons control Lagu on a computer or TV, and the volume keys set Lagu’s volume there. Away from home, Lagu Relay carries the same controls, encrypted end to end.

Scrobbling

Last.fm and ListenBrainz, each off until you connect it.

Bloom or Mono

The glowing Bloom look or the flat Mono, dark, light, or with the system, true-black OLED included, and an accent from the album or of your own. The widgets follow your pick.

02 · Sound

Media3, lossless,
and the full player.

Lossless and gapless

FLAC direct-plays from your server with the format named on Now Playing, and albums play without gaps. Wi-Fi and mobile data each get their own streaming quality.

Ten-band EQ

Preamp, presets, presets of your own, and AutoEq profiles for about 2,900 headphones, on Android 9 and up.

Crossfade and leveling

Fades from 1 to 12 seconds, Smart Fades timed from each track’s loudness, and leveling for every track: one your server hasn’t analyzed is measured on the phone, so a first play never starts too loud.

Seven visualizers

Spectrum, Radial, Tide, Orbit, Cover Flow, Oscilloscope, and Trackprint, fullscreen or in place of the cover.

Play, Shuffle, and a queue that stays

Album and playlist pages have Play and Shuffle, Plex Collections too. Restart the phone and the queue comes back paused where you left it.

Lyrics to share

Synced lyrics, saved with your downloads for offline. Long-press a line to copy up to six, or share them as a card with the cover.

Radio and Guest DJ

Stations from any track, artist, album, genre, mood, or decade, Deep Cuts, Sonic Adventure, and a Guest DJ that keeps the queue topped up.

Swipe to queue

Swipe a song right to Play next or left to Add to queue, on every song list, with a tick you feel at the threshold. TalkBack offers both as actions on the row.

Artist pages

A full-width artist photo, ten popular songs, your own plays and most played albums, then About and Similar artists. With Plex Pass on the server, Sounds like too.

03 · Tablets

A layout for
the wider screen.

The layout follows the window size, so a tablet gets room to spread out. On a phone, Now Playing turns sideways and the rest stays upright.

Sidebar in landscape

Your libraries and destinations down the side, like Lagu on the iPad.

Grids that fit

Album and artist grids add columns as the screen gets wider.

Now Playing, sideways

Landscape Now Playing, on tablets and phones, keeps the rating, shuffle and repeat, and the sleep timer.

On screen

Lagu on Android,
screen by screen.

Alice in Chains’ artist page on Android: a full-width band photo running up under the status bar behind the name, the tag Pop/Rock, 7 albums, 105 songs, 1990–2018, 97 plays, last played a week ago, your top Man in the Box, then Play, Shuffle, and artist radio buttons, and a Top Songs list with Man in the Box playing and Nutshell below it, each with a flame. — The artist page: a full-width photo, your plays, and the top songs.

Now Playing on an Android phone in the Mono look with the Plum Primary colour: a muted purple screen, Kid Cudi’s moon cover for Day ’n’ Nite (Crookers remix), an empty star rating, and the seek bar and volume slider in an orange taken from the cover, with the audio-quality label hidden. — Mono in Plum, the accent taken from the cover.

Settings › Appearance on an Android phone: Look set to Mono, Appearance set to Dark, Primary colour swatches with Plum selected, and Accent set to Album art, ahead of Auto, eight colors, and a custom color wheel, above the mini-player and a tab bar of Home, Library, Downloads, and Search. — Settings › Appearance, with Downloads in the Radio tab’s place.

Synced lyrics on an Android phone for Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, with the current line in white and the lines around it dimmed. — Synced lyrics, tap a line to jump to it.

The Radial visualizer fullscreen on an Android phone: a glowing gold and blue disc over a dark background. — The Radial visualizer, fullscreen.

Now Playing on an Android phone with the Radial visualizer drawn in place of the cover art, for Can’t Hold Us by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, with a FLAC 16-bit / 44.1 kHz label. — Or in place of the cover, on Now Playing.

The Library tab on an Android phone: Playlists, Artists, Albums, Songs, Downloads, Collections, Genres, Moods, Styles, Folders, and Stats, with a settings button in the corner and the navigation bar along the bottom. — Library, with Collections, Folders, and Stats.

The Radio screen on an Android phone: Library Radio, Sonic Adventure and Deep Cuts under For You, Mood Radio stations, and the start of Decades. — Radio: Library Radio, Sonic Adventure, Deep Cuts, and moods.

The Downloads screen on an Android phone: a search field, a Recently Downloaded row with The Heist, and counted rows for Artists, Albums, and Songs. — Downloads: recent, then artists, albums, and songs.

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PLAY ON

One sheet for every speaker and screen.

Tap Play on and the phone, your network speakers, and Lagu on your other devices are in one list. Pick a speaker and the music moves to it, even when your Plex server is away from home, and your Plex sign-in never leaves the phone. The volume keys follow the speaker, seeking lands where you ask, and a small notification keeps casting going with the screen off.

The Play on sheet on an Android phone: This phone ticked, a Set up link for Lagu devices, and a Network speakers (DLNA) section listing an AMBEO Soundbar Plus.

What it doesn’t do

The gaps,
listed.

What the Android app does not do yet. The platform table has every feature, cell by cell.

Visualizers ask for the microphone

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

No Google Cast

Android plays to DLNA speakers. Casting to a Chromecast or Nest speaker is in the desktop app, as an experiment.

No multi-select yet

Picking several songs at once to queue, add to a playlist, or download is on iPhone, iPad, and desktop so far.

Tablets and cars in verification

The tablet layout and Android Auto are built and still being tested on real hardware. Reports from yours help.

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. It’s the $1.99 purchase you’d make at launch, and you keep it.

Install from Google Play

Install Lagu from Play with the same Google account. The one purchase covers phone, tablet, and Android TV.

Sign in with Plex

Tap Continue with Plex, approve it on Plex’s own page, and pick a server if you have more than one.

Questions

Asked about
this platform.

Is there a Plex music player for Android?

Yes. Lagu is a music player for Plex with a native Android app for phones and tablets. It plays lossless and gapless on Media3, has a ten-band EQ, downloads to internal storage or an SD card, casts to DLNA speakers, and includes Android Auto.

Can Lagu cast Plex music to a WiiM or other DLNA speaker?

Yes. Turn on Network speakers in Settings, Playback, and DLNA speakers on your network appear under Play on. It works even when the Plex server is on another network, and you can seek and set the speaker’s volume while it plays.

Does Lagu work on Android tablets?

Yes. Tablets get a landscape layout with a sidebar and wider grids. It is built and in verification on real tablets, and the phone layout runs on any screen in the meantime.

What does Lagu for Android cost?

$1.99, once. The free places in Google Play’s internal test are taken, so Android joins the beta through open testing at the store price, and you keep Lagu when it leaves beta. One purchase covers phone, tablet, and Android TV, with no subscription. Free codes are posted on the Lagu forum from time to time.

Does Lagu run on Fire tablets?

Yes, in the beta. Amazon’s test covers Fire tablets as well as Fire TV, by email invite: sign up on the download page with the address on your Amazon account. It hasn’t been tried on a Fire tablet yet, so a report from yours helps.

Lagu on other screens: iPhone · iPad · Apple Watch · Apple TV · Android TV · 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.

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A Plex music playerfor Android.

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