Album radio not working

Artist and song radio work great, album radio… Not so much.

System:

Plex-server (latest release) debian (Ubuntu server 20)
Client (latest release) Plexamp android

In the client, I select the radio button next to the album:

The client just plays the contents of the album, instead of the expected behavior (sonically similar albums) :

On the home screen it appears that an album radio/list has been created:

Is anyone else experiencing this?

How should I troubleshoot this?

Was my library analysis incomplete?

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Very likely.
When did you start the analysis?
How many albums/songs do you have in your collection?
What kind of CPU is in your Plex server?
Did you enable sonic analysis in both places (server settings and library properties)?
When you look at this particular album in the web app, do you see any “Sonically Similar Albums” listed at the bottom?

Edit:
Never mind, I think I misunderstood the feature.

The analysis finished in 2.5 days, 25,000ish tracks.

CPU=2x E5620

Sonically similar albums do appear when browsing thru the web app:

I guess I assumed the scan was complete, because I didn’t see any sonic activity in recent logs…

Is it possible it is partially complete? Would the sonic features be available than?

No.

Did you actually let the album play until its end?
Or did you just take a look at the Up Next tab in Plexamp? Because the next album won’t appear there until the current album has been played almost comnpletely.

Ah, I believe we might have found the solution:

I now remember turning this feature off when it rolled out because I was never satisfied with plex’s Metadata based matches.

My socks have been literally blown off by sonic matching. This feature shows the devs understand how much us plex users love our libraries :heart_eyes:!!

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We’re happy to hear you’re enjoying it!

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I think there might be some misunderstanding here. Album radio will play the album in its entirety, followed by sonically similar albums in their entirety.

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The way it seems to work for me: the radio button plays the whole album–but the “up next” queue doesn’t seem to be generated all at once. I enabled it for an album, and the queue I saw was that album, plus two tracks from another album that does make sense sonically. If I skip ahead to one of those tracks, the whole rest of the album populates in the queue with a few tracks from yet another album. And so on. Which makes sense as I don’t really see the point of generating an infinite queue all at once.

The queue is generated in advance, but Plexamp doesn’t currently display the entirety of it.

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