What happens after Sonic Analysis?

General Discussions
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Maybe someone here can shed some light on my question.
I started plex sonic analysis when they first released it and I have been doing it up until this Friday October 22nd 18hrs a day.
So my question is what happens next?
I barely see any of my music showing similarities like they said it would so what happens after it’s done processing albums

Thanks for any insight or conversation

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The part that’s visible to the eye will be entries for sonically similar artists/albums in your library. In Plexamp you should also see Mixes for you – however keep in mind that’ll also depend on your play history.

Most of the functionality will be under the hood – Plexamp will e.g. use the results of the sonic analysis in artist/album/track radios for “smoother” playlists.

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Oooook haven’t seen anything like that…it’s been done since Friday and notta. I take it its not instant like it has to build or index afterwards right

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You should be able to see in your server logs if the analysis is actually done or just got stuck on some bad album/song.

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You won’t see any results until the process is done with all albums.

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as noted, most of the sonic stuff is currently used by plexamp.

but in plex web (and maybe other clients), you should see ‘sonically similar’ sections for artists/albums.

the difference between similar artists and sonically similar, is that similar comes from related artists metadata, while sonically similar comes from the actual audio analysis similarities without any metadata.

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How do I know its still processing or indexing on console

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the simplest way is to open Plex Web

and look at the status drop down

If anything about sonic analysis active, it will be there.

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In the console log, I think you can filter on Music: to see any current processing logs.

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Ok thanks…but crazy thing is when it started it started with all my albums I have …but since it stopped or got down to zero not all my albums are sonically matched and nothing is showing up in console about music or sonic or any other keywords to filter to let me know its actually doing something

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How do I actually access this feature? I have a Plex Pass and it’s not showing up! Also using MyCloud EX2 Ultra!

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It’s not available on all platforms.
Next to the Plex Pass requirement, you’ll need a machine running Windows, macOS or Linux (64b; this includes most NAS devices) as well as a non-ARM based server. This is due to some technical dependencies of the underlying machine learning library used by Plex which is only available on those platforms.

From https://support.plex.tv/articles/sonic-analysis-music/

  • You must be running Plex Media Server v1.24.0 or newer
    • Windows, macOS, and Linux (64-bit only) are supported (this includes most NAS > devices)
    • ARM-based CPUs are not supported (with the exception of Apple’s M1 systems, which use Rosetta 2 emulation)
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