Is there such a thing as an automatic music playlist generator? Or even something that will play a similar track next?

I’ve been (re)building an offline music collection and sometimes I’m too lazy/uninspired to make a new playlist or I get tired of ones I’ve already made. At times like this I would like to be able to select a song and tell my computer to make me a playlist of similar tracks, or use it as the basis for a ‘radio’ mode, like I used to do once on a streaming service.

Any pointers appreciated!

I’m able to use the command line and (laboriously) write primitive bash scripts. A GUI to take care of me would be ace tho ;)

  • ChurbleyimyamOP
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    2 months ago

    Nice, that sounds like a sweet setup. Do you think something similar could work locally?

    • plasticcheese@lemmy.one
      2·
      2 months ago

      If by locally you mean all on the same PC, then absolutely. Anything can be a server. Look into running docker on your PC, and then running a Navidrome container on that. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it’s nothing a YouTube video couldn’t teach you (pay attention to anything about persistent storage). Once you have it running, connect to it with 127.0.0.1:4533 (localhost) using a browser, scan your media, and then connect your clients to it with 127.0.0.1 too. Good luck :)