![]() For example, the company suggests users could ask for things like “mellow ballads by heavy metal bands,” “upbeat electronics tracks from The Chainsmokers and other DJ duos,” “psychedelic indie rock like Pink Floyd,” “70s grooves by powerhouse women,” and more. The new feature, dubbed Sonic Sage, lets users create their own playlists by using natural language to describe what they want to hear. It later expanded from the desktop to iOS and Android, and got an overhaul, becoming a subscriber-only service. In Plex’s case, it’s using the feature for its music player side project for the time being, not its main media player app.įirst launched in 2017 as the debut project from Plex Labs, Plexamp was introduced as Plex’s spin on the classic Winamp media player app, even offering visualizations to accompany your tunes. Spotify, notably, launched an AI DJ to both introduce and select music for its streaming app users, while other third-party apps like Petey are now using ChatGPT to make Apple Music playlists. The update follows other efforts around using AI interfaces to program users’ music selections. The company announced today a new feature called “Sonic Sage,” powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that will build unique music playlists by scanning users’ libraries and leveraging their TIDAL subscription. This is an app “as is” which works fine, but need definitely more.Plexamp, the music player originally incubated by the Labs division of media company Plex, is tapping into ChatGPT with its latest update. I hope Plex Labs will build a full sized app some day with even more features. It’s also most likely a feature and not a bug, but I hate that I can’t focus it since it lies in the menubar area of my Mac OS. UI is great, but for my “old” eyes, it’s perhaps too small. ![]() While it is sufficient for my daily use, it’s not perfect. I have to manually go through my massive collection to get everything out of Plexamp. Grapevine is great, but for my underground library it is not. This can be considered as both advantage and disadvantage, but I’m quite sure many of my readers don’t have a home server so that’s why this is a clear downside. While I personally love servers and setting up my own media files, not many do. You can listen through your related songs with just one click, how great is that? Con: Needs a server This feature is familiar from Spotify or Google Play, but I’m amazed you can do the same with your own music collections. Mp3 and flac is all you need, but if you’d happen to have aiff or wma, let’s play it! Library and artist radios Great, huh? Supports almost any music format You can download the app for Windows, Mac and Linux. That means blazing fast performance, no lags or hiccups! Gapless playbackĭidn’t remember how much I missed this feature! Listening to a Pink Floyd and Devin Townsend is a godlike experience. Well, let’s skip to the pros and cons, shall we? Fast performanceĪpp is small not only by its user interface, but I read it’s coded well. Remember Winamp? Plexamp is just like the original Winamp, kinda. ![]() ![]() The biggest disadvantage was the lack of any solid desktop player.Īfter my occasional googling of music server and music apps, I stumbled upon Plexamp. The music server and gravenote didn’t convince me first. Well, there’s Plex! It’s the best media server currently available and couple of years ago they opened their music service for the Plex Pass owners. Open source server side software like Subsonic, Madsonic and variants are ugly and need lots of work. Less known Roon is great but very expensive for a system that doesn’t work from outside of the home network. Google Play Music comes close since it hosts all your mp3s, but it lacks in metadata. Spotify is near perfect, but for a big music nerd like me it still lacks some of the more underground side of music and has quite limited support for your own mp3s. I’ve been searching for the perfect music player forever. ![]()
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