Check sonic analysis settings under Settings > Server > Library in the web app.Server OS: macOS, Windows, and Linux only.Requires the latest Plex Media Server v1.24.0.Most of the features are only available when playing back on Plexamp.If it’s winter (looking at you NZ/AU!) you can cuddle up to your server because it’s going to get warm while it’s diligently going through your music in search of unseen connections. The new sonic analysis can be a fairly taxing operation on your processor, and depending on the size of your library can take a number of hours or even days to complete once you enable it. So wake up, have some coffee (flat white please!), and see what albums were released 20, 30, or even 50 years ago. There’s no better way to feel really old nostalgic about your music than to be reminded of every album’s meaningful birthdays. You can also use the powerful new filters to search for all your live albums, or all your EPs from the 80s. And from today, we’ll now organize albums by type on the artist page. Some are live, some are demos, some are EPs. For good measure your server looks back further in time and makes a few historical mixes based on your past habits. Your server analyzes the albums you’ve had on heavy rotation recently, cluster them into mixes, and then sprinkle in sonically similar albums. With all that tasty sonic data, we decided to add a new one we call Mixes For You. We love building a wide gamut of music experiences: From Library Radio to style and mood radios, to Mix Builder, and now with Track Radio and Album Radio, you have an incredibly diverse range of options for getting those tunes playing. For a while now we’ve been talking about ways to replace it, and it turns out this new Sonic data provides a superb basis for building our new Track Radio.īut why stop at track radio? Some people (looking at you, Random Album Radio users!) really like their music to be in units of albums, so we’ve also added Album Radio, which plays the selected album and then follows it up with sonically similar albums. We were forced to remove Plex Mix a few years ago because of a metadata provider change, and people definitely missed it. Quickly and easily queue up similar tracks! We’ve added a section for Sonically Similar tracks in Plexamp’s Related tab. Clearly the Wu-Tang Clan has a pretty unique sound! It’s also fun to see what tracks are sonically similar. We’re so hooked on this feature, every time we add new music, the first thing we do is see what each album is sonically similar to. Why is that interesting? Because it’s Richard Edwards’ old band! I guess the musical apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Want another cool example? In the sonically similar albums for Richard Edwards’ most excellent Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset you’ll notice a Margot & the Nuclear So and So‘s album there. If you look at Mirror Ball, you’ll see the fascinating fact that one of the most similar albums is Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy, which is notable because Pearl Jam played as the backing band on Mirror Ball! For example, if you only have the last two hipster-folk Taylor Swift albums (for shame, her early stuff is great too!), Sonically Similar Artists will reflect that fact (what are the odds that the Lana Del Rey similarity is related to the fact that Jack Antonoff contributed to both artists?)Īs a cool example of how eerily well this can work, consider Neil Young, an artist with a diverse catalog of musical styles over the last five decades. Secondly, doing sonic analysis ensures that the similarity reflects the actual music you have. While we are already using metadata for similar artists (and albums as well, although tbh we didn’t get a lot of data for this), needing to rely on metadata has two big downsides: There is a lot of music out there without metadata (think obscure Bandcamp artists or your high school band). The most obvious way the sonic data is useful is for showing similar artists, albums, and tracks. So what can we do with this new-found power? Quite a bit, it turns out… Sonic Similarity This allows us to see how “close” anything in your library is from anything else, where distance is based on a large number of sonic elements in the audio. Once you enable Sonic analysis on a music library, all tracks, albums, and artists are processed in order to place them in a Musical Universe (math nerd? This musical universe consists of points in N-dimensional space). You can find some quick start info below or review all the juicy details in the support article. Skip down to the “Get Started” section to learn how to turn it on, or continue reading for all the gory and delightful details. We’ve added a sophisticated neural network which analyzes your music library, powering amazing new features and improving existing ones. Today we’re announcing a massive server upgrade for Plex Pass subscribers who have discovered our awesome dedicated music app, Plexamp.
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