You can now create as many playlists as you’d like using filtering/search criteria. Playing the playlist is as easy as hovering over it and then clicking on the play arrow that appears: Hover over the playlist, then click on the play arrow to play it. The little gear icon that appears in the top left corner of the playlist indicates that it is a “smart playlist” that will automatically update if you add new music to your library that meet your search criteria. Click on “Playlists” in the left menu and, assuming you’ve done everything correctly, you’ll see your newly created playlist there: All of your playlists are in the Playlists area. Now, with your Smart Playlist created, you’ll be able to see it in the Playlist area. I typically name mine based on the search criteria, but you can call them whatever you want: That is the icon for creating a playlist: This is the icon you want for creating a playlist.Ĭlicking that button will open a prompt for you to name the new playlist. Look to the right of the window for an icon with four little lines and a plus sign. Now, creating a “Smart Playlist” is just one more step. Using that filter option, you can search for, say, all the music in the Genre “Alternative” or “Classic Rock.” Once you’ve entered your search criteria, click the “APPLY” button on the far right and it will apply your search criteria to your music: Once you apply the search criteria, Plex will show you the music that fits the criteria. What you want to do is click on “Custom Filter.” That will open this option: Here’s where you create custom filters. Click on the little arrow next to “All” to drop down the menu. It’s all the way to the left and says “All” with a little arrow next to it. Once you’re viewing your music, you need to look for a drop-down menu. Plex says that the goal of Super Sonic is to take you on a journey through your music library unlike any you’ve ever been on it’s just one more way Plex is helping to personalize your media. You create all the Playlists in the Music area. You’d think that you would create Playlists in the Playlists area, but you don’t. Click on the Music pane, not the Playlists pane. Once I figured it out, I thought I’d make the steps clear for others.Ĭounter-intuitively, the place to start is not in the “Playlists” option on the Plex dashboard, but in the Music panel. I’d rather let the software do it for me. I knew I could simply add songs to a playlist manually, but that seemed cumbersome. With how amazing Plex is, I figured the same functionality had to be possible. Clementine, in particular, has excellent smart playlist functionality, allowing me to create a playlist with all of my music in the “Folk” genre or published between 19. At home, I use a native music client (e.g., Strawberry or Clementine) to play my music. But it took me a while to figure out how to create playlists that automatically update (i.e., “smart playlists”) based on search filters. I stream my music basically around the world (I travel regularly). Would be great if any devs reading would consider giving us some way to have music visualizations (ideally full screen, text-free visualizations) in a Samsung smart TV app.I love my Plex server. From its settings menu, Plexamp lets us optionally drop the streaming quality from lossless to (OPUS codec) lossy for on-the-fly server-side transcoding our choice of bitrate up to 320kbps. Presumably you have to cast it using Windows 10 in order to move the visualizations to your Samsung TV, which means you can't touch your laptop in the meantime. Plexamp itself will not cast the visualizations to the Samsung TV. Turns out I was looking for the visualization setting whilst using the Win 10 app to cast to the Samsung TV, during which operation visualizations are disabled. At one point I stumbled across some place where you can choose a visualization, but as soon as I maximized the app, I could not find this anywhere again (nor any way to return to the de-maximized version).ĮDIT: Okay, I found it. I found the Windows app baffling in terms of UI. I was really pleased to see that the Plex ecosystem finally had something with music visualizations, and downloaded Plexamp (sadly there is no Plexamp yet for Samsung TVs).
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