Music analysis plugin?

[riothamus 52]

Does anyone know of a plugin or something that I could use in Emby that would provide an analysis of my music files?  I'm looking for something that would create suggestion lists that are based on an analysis of the audio files themselves, rather than just genre tags (which even with MusicBrainz, are not always accurate).

 

Honestly, I would even settle for a third party app that I could use that would output to an .m3u file that I could then dump into Emby's playlist folder at this point.

 

Obligatory "Sorry if this has been asked before" statement.

Edited August 27, 2018 by riothamus

[Luke 40022]

It's a great idea for the future. thanks.

[riothamus 52]

Thanks Luke.  I've been doing some digging, and this is in no way a trivial thing to accomplish.  I was just curious if there was anything around that I could use already to help catalog my current directory of tunes and output to a playlist file.  It seems that there is not a whole lot to work with outside of proprietary solutions that are built into other applications (iTunes, for one).

[Luke 40022]

@@ginjaninja may have some suggestions. Thanks.

[ginjaninja 573]

i am not aware of any such products and have never used. of course emby has a "more like this" section.lastfm has "similar artists" that could perhaps be exposed via api.

[riothamus 52]

i am not aware of any such products and have never used. of course emby has a "more like this" section.lastfm has "similar artists" that could perhaps be exposed via api.

 

You are onto something there:  https://www.last.fm/api/show/artist.getSimilar

[riothamus 52]

FWIW, MusicBrainz has been working on an open source solution to this problem:  https://listenbrainz.org/

 

Perhaps when their code matures a bit, something like this could end up in Emby one day.

[Luke 40022]

Very cool, thanks !

[Luke 40022]

A ListenBrainz plugin is now in the Emby plugin catalog. Please try it out and report your experience. Thanks.

[ginjaninja 573]

scrobbles are working for me..

 

https://listenbrainz.org/goals

 

Make this incredibly useful music usage data available to anyone who cares to play with it. We hope that the combination of ListenBrainz, MusicBrainz and AcousticBrainz will provide enough data for developers to create new music recommendation systems. Music recommendation systems are hard to develop because comprehensive music data sets do not exist in the open. Normally start-ups spend vast amounts of money to create these data sets before building recommendation systems. We aim to short-cut this process and put the power to create recommendation engines into the hands of everyone. 

 

should recommendations get generated?..or is it it a scrobble/play history for now?

[riothamus 52]

Holy crap @@Luke, thank you sooooo much for for this!!

[ginjaninja 573]

Holy crap @@Luke, thank you sooooo much for for this!!

 

what have you gotten the plugin to do?

[riothamus 52]

what have you gotten the plugin to do?

 

Well, it's scrobbling my music to ListenBrainz, which is what I was hoping for.  ListenBrainz doesn't have 'recommendations' yet (as last.fm does) but that's not a big deal for me right now.