It’s been a while since I used the feature, but I… can’t find Random Album Radio any more? Either in the Plex app on Windows, PlexAmp on Windows, or the iOS Plex/PlexAmp apps.
My expected behaviour would be to see it somewhere in the Home tab in PlexAmp, and in the Recommended tab in the Plex apps. Currently, PlexAmp shows Recent Plays, Recently Added, Recent Playlists and History. The Plex app shows Recent Played Music, Recently Added in Music, Recent Playlists and More By [recently played artist].
Is the feature gone? Or have I accidentally hit something in my settings that has disabled it or deleted it from both apps?
(a) Old library; two years at least.
(b) Yes, “Agent” is set to Plex Music when I go to the library settings, “Edit” and “Advanced.”
(c) In the same Advanced settings, “Popular Tracks” is not checked: there is no tickmark next to “Popular Tracks: Load popular track data…”
How much does that tickbox drive the engines? I have really eclectic musical tastes (and a library) and I’d rather not have Plex just deliver what is “popular” on last.fm or whatever service it’s scraping this data from. If that box is ticked by default, I’m guessing that’s why I unchecked it in the first place.
If you see the radios appear afer the refresh is complete, you know it.
You can always override the popularity of some items with your own “star” rating. If you can’t stand a particular track, give it 1 star. Most radios will automatically exclude such tracks.
Now to see if it works when I turn off Popular Tracks – I like random to be random, not quasi-random driven by some external algorithm’s interpretation of what’s popular…
