Any updates for premium music support on FreeBSD?
Sorry for the late reply here.
As stated before this is something that would require action from gracenote (they donāt provide FreeBSD binaries)
Did anybody get a reply from Gracenote directly? Can someone start a petition, so they see how many users actually want/ need FreeBSD support?
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Thereās no petition that I know of, but I can pretty much guarantee that it would be ignored by Gracenote. The real solution would be Plex going with an alternate provider that isnāt so restricted/narrow-minded about OS.
Luckily the FreeBSD version of Plex Media Server continues to be maintained. Running on FreeNAS 11.2 now and still using jails (although now the new iocage jails, vs warden). Not really interested in the 2X network latency/peformance hit docker overhead brings to the table, or needlessly being forced to upgrade the CPU in my server when it could otherwise be sufficient, so if Plex ever abandons the FreeBSD version Iāll need to find an alternative to Plex.
Does anyone here have access to the Gracenote Developer Portal? It would be good to get a hold of the source code to investigate where the issue is. I understand Plex is using the Object-Oriented version of the SDK not the C version. From what I could see in the docs from Gracenote, the GCC Compiler is used (which is available in FreeBSD). http://developer.gracenote.com/sites/default/files/docs/html-oo/index.html#shared-topics/platform-topics/System%20Requirements.html%3FTocPath%3DPlatform%2520Development%2520Guidelines%7CSystem%2520Requirements%7C_____0
In terms of another provider, ACRcloud looks promising and a number of parties are apparently using it as a fallback where Gracenote is not suitable. https://www.acrcloud.com/
Documentation here: https://www.acrcloud.com/docs/acrcloud/tutorials/identify-audio-custom-content/
@elan I think Iām among many who are very thankful that a FreeBSD version even exists. So for that alone, thank you.
In terms of the Gracenote port costing for FreeBSD, how much are we talking, if you donāt mind giving a ball park figure? Make this is something we could crowdfund?
Update:
Iām aware Gracenote stated in an email they have no plans to introduce a library to FreeBSD voluntarily and this is likely to cost restraints and the small user base. But there is clearly still substantial interest for such a library to exist. Could this possibly be ported over as a community project?
I donāt have any more specifics than this to offer at the moment, but just know that in the future we will almost certainly live in a world where FreeBSD is no longer missing features for premium music.
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I know many of you wanted this for a long time, FreeBSD should now have the same Music experience as others since the new Music experience doesnāt use gracenote libs.
That future @elan was talking about there is here now 
Please see Upgrading Plex music libraries for more details.
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Yes! Definitely been worth the wait. Thanks for making this happen.
Awesome. Was wondering this when I read about the new Music Library features. Iām not in a hurry to update right now, but will be looking forward to doing so in the next month or two.
The future is now 
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not too pleased with the matching specially on the genre tags. I sampled a couple of artist and the genre tags are all wrong. everything is getting tagged as Pop/Rock when I know for sure that the genre is not (slayer being tagged as pop/rock for example).
I am not sure that I will be using this on my library until that is fixed. and that was not the case the before.
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@ahiguero please open a new thread for specific issue, but that looks odd since musicbrainz shows something different, but in any case please open a new thread and I can try to help there, I think it probably time to close this on in any case since this has been open since 2015 and we do have a solution that works the same in the different platforms inducing FreeBSD
