A lot of the buttons/icons perform different then I’d have guessed and sometimes even after seeing the results I can’t figure out what and why its doing that.
It would be great to have a FAQ, otherwise should I add my questions here one by one?
There is a how to built by community member @sekthree and its a good place to start → How To Plexamp . If the how to doesn’t help, then post to the forums.
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Thanks, I have read both those guides and together with this article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/sonic-analysis-music/ I am 99% confident I have understood how everything works! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Your most welcome. Since you mentioned sonic analysis, I would like to offer one tip. Depending on the power of your server, make sure to give a large chunk of time for sonic analysis to be performed as a scheduled task. More time is better so you can get analysis done sooner, which leads to the awesomeness of the Guest DJ Mixes etc…
I had it set for only one hour of time a night and didn’t notice it for a while, I couldn’t understand why the DJ mixes werent working on some songs and on others yes, and some would not sweet fade and some would, basically the sonic analysis wasn’t progressing far enough through my library, I would check the logs and it would show working and then stopping, I didn’t notice it was cause I had set it that way. 
. I have a largish library of songs so it was going through it slowly night after night. I set my time from 1am to 7am and within 2 days after that all my tracks were analyzed.
Thanks for the tips. Coincidentally you mentioned one topic which might not have been covered or which I might have missed when reading the guides: “Guest DJs”
I couldn’t figure them out. I think you just clarified it.
Say I was listening to a playlist and I really liked a specific track and decided to hear more sonically similar sounding songs, I assumed that I simply had to click on the DJ icon and select “DJ Freeze: Keeps the mood going with sonically similar tracks to the current one”
But all that did was add 2 sonically similar tracks right after the currently playing song and after those 2 songs, my playlist simply continued.
I think the problem might have been that not all songs were analysed yet, or maybe I simply didn’t have enough sonically similar songs 
Everything seems to be working as expected now.
oh, one mroe thing I figured out is that apparently “Sonic Adventure” seems to have moved from its position. I seem to remember the guide mentioned this feature being part of: Home => Stations => Sonic Adventure, but I found it via Search => Sonic Adventure.
Yes. The DJ mix needs analyzed tracks. One way to tell if analysis has happened is if when looking at the track as it plays if you see a sound wave as the song progresses or if you see a flat line. If the line in between the track times looks like a caterpillar than the analysis has happened.
Sonic adventure was moved on latest release, you are correct there. The DJ mix also I believe uses degrees of separation. Which you can find under settings - playback - radio. I think default is 1. If you increase it it will expand the search out for sonic similarities farther into more artists.
One last thing to check. If your music library on the server side is setup for prefer local data or not. If your library is set to prefer local data then you will need to edit the tracks and include moods. So check your tracks in the server to see if moods are present. If not then before you do anything drastic just do a metadata refresh if the library. That should pull in new metadata.
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