Ability to play mixes, radio, or otherwise use sonic analysis features while offline?

Plex Labs
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I’m often listening to music with Plexamp while traveling, and many of the places I travel to have no cellular connectivity, which means the only music I can listen to is the stuff that’s downloaded on to my phone. That’s not a big deal, since I have a lot of storage available for downloading my music to my device.

However, the best features of Plexamp (in my opinion) are the mix features that make use of sonic analysis. Unfortunately, these features all require an active connection to the media server.

Is it possible for these features to be available in Plexamp when it’s offline, so that it can make use of offline content when generating a playlist? For example, Plexamp could sync the sonic analysis metadata along with the tracks itself, and then have access to it when building mixes.

Of course I don’t know the details of how these systems are designed and perhaps there’s a reason why playlist generation needs to happen server-side, but if it were possible to make it work purely client-side when there’s no internet connection, that would be marvelous.

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Sorry, these are server-powered features.

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That’s fair. Maybe now I need to figure out how to make an offline mobile Plex player?

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I’m not sure I follow the idea.

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You can actually download most of the mixes, radios etc.
Click on ⋮ next to an item and check out the download options.

  • For a track/album/artist, this should offer an option to download a track/album/artist radio.
  • For an item in Recent Plays, this should download that playlist.
  • For items in the Stations section, it should download that radio/station/…

Mixes for you are slightly more tricky as they don’t offer a context menu… but you can start playing it and save the play queue as playlist and download that (not sure if that changed… IIRC I have a bunch of M4U items in my downloads that aren’t playlists)

Isn’t that what you’re asking about?

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@tom80H I hadn’t considered I could just make a mix and download that. I might give that a try in the future.

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I was idly day dreaming about making a self-contained Plex device for playing music, because I like setting up special little systems like that. Something like a tablet computer with a collection of music on it and was running both Plex Media Server and Plexamp. Granted it’d have to be an Intel system if I wanted to use sonic analysis, which limits the choices for devices significantly.

Or, I could just download some mixes ahead of time. That might be an easier and cheaper idea! :wink: