I’m seeing a strange thing, and I’m wondering if anyone else can confirm this…
I’ve been using the new “Guest DJ” feature extensively - in general, it provides great suggestions and I’m happy to let it play with very few track skips.
However, the auto-play mode (e.g. when Plexamp automatically queues songs up when an album is finished) seems to have gotten MUCH worse? I have a memory of the auto-play being relatively intelligent, e.g. playing tracks from the same genre/artist/etc? Now, auto-play will very often jump into hard right turns and abrupt mood shifts, and when I look at the songs it’s queued up they’re often pretty incoherent (they sometimes seem like a literal shuffle over my entire library). As an example, it decided that this techno album I’m listening to now (genre/mood tagged and by a relatively well know artist) is best followed up by… a few very loosely “electronic” things, a track from a Doors rarities album, and a spanish language pop-rap track.
Anyone else experiencing this? Are there settings to specify the auto-play behavior that I’m not seeing somewhere? Is anyone ELSE having good luck with this feature (maybe it’s always been bad and I’m just mis-remembering)? I’d be curious from a Plex staffer, what’s the algo for the auto-play - it seems very different from any of the DJ algo’s, since they pretty much ALL produce better results than what I get from auto-play now.
