I recently reached out to the Plexamp team on Twitter with some feedback, which was more of a “stream of consciousness”. They encouraged me to share my thoughts in the forums as a better communication channel and so that others might also benefit. I’ve refined and restructured my feedback so it’s easier to understand.
Dear Plexamp Team,
I recently subscribed to the Plex Pass and TIDAL bundle, intending to use Plexamp as my primary music player. I have some questions and suggestions aimed at enhancing the user experience.
1. Share TIDAL song links from Plexamp
As a frequent music sharer, the inability to share TIDAL music links directly from Plexamp often leads me to use the TIDAL app. Please consider adding an option to share TIDAL music links directly within Plexamp.
2. Merging Plex server and TIDAL sources / Unifying Plex and TIDAL Libraries
It would be great to simultaneously select my Plex server and TIDAL as sources. While this may complicate the library structure, I think a ‘Plex server’ folder or a tag option could differentiate the sources.
& Since I can play TIDAL songs from my Plex server selected as a source (provided they were previously added to “My Library” when Tidal was the chosen source), why can’t I merge both libraries? A unified library experience should be a crucial feature to fully untilize the benefits of the TIDAL+PLEXPASS integration.
3. Intuitive song liking
The current process of “liking” a song in Plexamp could be more intuitive. The rating system (stars) does not seem to add songs to an accessible list later. Instead, I must use “Add to Library” or “Add to My TIDAL” from the menu to save songs.
A single “heart” button could automatically add liked songs to playlists in Plex and TIDAL libraries. Allowing users to customize where the songs are saved from the settings would provide flexibility and make revisiting favorite songs easier.
4. Merging Sonic Sage and Sonic Adventure: Super Sonic Sage
Sonic Adventure is a hidden gem that analyzes song sonics instead of just metadata, but it is limited to local libraries. In contrast, “Sonic Sage” appears to be a metadata-based recommendation tool integrated into an LLM. While it’s impressive, it lacks the magic that “Sonic Adventure” brings to truly earn the title of a “sage.”
Is it possible to perform “sonic analysis” on all music ever released through the TIDAL partnership? If Sonic Sage were trained with the resulting data and could understand “points in N-dimensional space,” it could lead to an objectively superior recommendation engine compared to anything Spotify or other platforms offer. This is because the analysis could transcend human subjectivity in understanding our likes and dislikes.
Implementation might be challenging, as Plex would likely need to collaborate with TIDAL to maintain a synced 1:1 copy of TIDAL’s catalog on Plex servers for “sonic analysis.” Alternatively, TIDAL could analyze tracks on their servers and provide the data to Plexamp.
I hope I haven’t gone too far down the rabbit hole & that these suggestions contribute to Plexamp’s user experience. Thank you for your time if you’re read all this, and please let me know if any of this makes sense or if I need correction.
We do return TIDAL search results when you have your personal media library selected, which is specifically to allow you to find stuff outside of your library.
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