Just discovered this app (PlexAmp) last night and I’ll start by saying it’s GORGEOUS. I’m loving the playlist functions, fairly intuitive compared to anything I’ve used before (of course I’m old, so I carry my music ON my phone now…don’t stream from pandora/etc, so I’m not sure how well they work and quite frankly am not interested). Who wants to pay someone the rest of their lives for EVERYTHING they consume in perpetual, hate subscriptions. Even if/when I get PlexAmp working for me, I’ll STILL use it via a sync type function. Don’t rely on wireless/Bluetooth/etc as much as possible…I’ve got over a mile of Cat-6A running through my house, installed it myself when I built it last year 
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That said, it’s still missing something I’ve been trying to figure out how to do for years now (or my tiny lizard brain hasn’t figured out how to use it fully yet…most likely!) I’ve got LOTS of music (about a terabyte, essentially everything from 1930 through today) and I’ve sent YEARS ensuring all the metadata is correct. I’m trying to find a way to build a playlist that will pull say only songs that reached the Billboard Top 100. My initial thought was to go through the library manually, artist by artist, album by album, song by song (see my comment on metadata above, tedium is not a scary word to me) and rate everything I knew I liked 5 stars. The thought being you can then just create a playlist of the 5-Star songs and you’re off. Easier said than done when you have a million songs, love of tediousness or not.
What I’m going for is a “personal”(ized) radio station. The internet is great and all, but we’ve all seen what has happened since Corona. ALL sorts of stuff isn’t working correctly. But do you know what is working flawlessly within the confines of my home network? Plex, so I’d be unaffected if Plex was my radio station (I live out in the woods a little, not much cell/radio signal…but my wifi reaches around my whole property. That took some doing!) So I can stream from my house to my phone, to my headphones from anywhere on my property.
What I’m imaging is a way (software) to go through each album in the collection and annotate the songs off it that charted. So the playlist would start off with just songs that ever charted in say the top 100. It could then further divided that amongst genre, artist, year, etc. So you could look at say, lets through out a shout out to a recently departed, Kenny Rogers songs that charted. Or ALL songs that charted in 2000.
Once that playlists is established, you could take it and build customizable playlists off of it. So I could nix and/or add songs here or there to the “Dads Charted Playlists” and my wife could do the same to her “Moms Charted Playlist”. Make sense? Anyone aware of a way to do this? I’m sure the answer will be “dude, just hit this button over here and it PlexAmp will do just that for you”. Seems I’m proving NOT smarter than a 5th grader…but I’m CRUSHING those 4th grade finals, so I’m still holding out hope!
