Standalone Sonic Analysis Helper App

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What: A standalone Sonic Analysis app that can run on powerful computers to reduce the time required to analyze large libraries.

Why: Many people run their Plex server on fairly underpowered hardware (NAS, NUC, etc), but still have a more powerful computer. Creating a standalone app that talks to your Plex server locally, does the analysis, and sends the results back for writing to the database would speed this process up immensely.

Alternative/Bonus Idea: As Plex is using Tensorflow under the hood to do the conversions, perhaps freeze the graph and export to a tflite file then allow Plex to be passed hardware TPU devices like the Google Coral into the server. Many tech-aware users will have one of these that could be utilised for this purpose.

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100% - Or a web service which allows users to export their db as a csv and upload it and then sync the results back to the users Server.

I started my Sonic Analysis two weeks ago and it’s only half way through, I changed the settings day one to max out the threads and to update “ASAP” so it isn’t running on a schedule.

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I bought plex pass in large part because of plexamp. It really sucks having absolutely no way to enable sonic analysis on my library short of chucking my ARM based NAS in the garbage and forking out big bucks for an x86 based model. Being able to offload that analysis to more suitable agents would be very awesome.

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