I made Plexamp for Emby - Sonic Analysis of your Music Library
Been working on a system that adds sonically intelligent music discovery to an Emby library — similar tracks, track radio, a "sonic adventure" between two songs, and auto-curated mixes, all based on how the music actually sounds rather than genre tags. Comes with an Android app (liquidWave) that ties it all together.
It's fully self-hosted, nothing leaves your network, and runs on whatever you've got — a NAS for the coordinator, any box with spare CPU or GPU for the analysis.
Currently in private beta looking for a few testers. Full details and a quickstart guide over on the Emby forum: liquidWave - Emby Forum Post
Quick rundown of the main features:
- Sonically similar tracks / artists / albums — based on how the music sounds (neural audio analysis), not genre tags.
- Track Radio — an endless queue seeded from any track.
- Sonic Adventure — pick a start track and an end track, and it builds a journey that morphs from one to the other.
- Auto-curated Mixes — sonically consistent mixes built from your library; refresh any mix, or save it as a real playlist.
- Stations & Guest DJ — Library / Random Album / Decade radios, plus a Guest DJ that injects sonically matched tracks into your queue.
- Artist Mix Creator — pick an artist and the grid repopulates with sonically similar artists; keep adding the ones you want, then build a shuffled mix that spans the whole selection.
- A proper player — Media3/ExoPlayer, queue, shuffle/repeat, crossfade with an artwork cross-dissolve, an in-app equalizer, a Now Playing home-screen widget, Android Auto, and Google Cast to a Chromecast / Android TV / Shield.
- Offline buffer — the next few tracks in your queue are silently pre-cached in the background, so brief Wi-Fi blips don't interrupt playback. No manual download needed; you'll see "Offline buffer ready" in Now Playing when it's topped up.
- Audiobooks — browse by book/author, durable resume, speed control.
- Offline downloads — download any playlist or a whole audiobook (the original source files, no transcode) to your phone and browse + play it with no connection at all — on a plane, underground, wherever. Downloads get their own row on Home (with cover art) and a badge in your Playlists; an online/offline indicator shows the connection state; downloads are Wi-Fi-only by default. Audiobooks keep durable resume even fully offline, and your position syncs back to Emby the moment you reconnect. Managed under Settings → Downloads (Playlists and Audiobooks), with a one-tap "remove download" that leaves the item itself untouched.
- Themeable — follows your system dark/light theme automatically.
- Search across music, audiobooks, or everything.
Happy to answer questions here too.
Yes, I wrote it with AI... doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing....works perfectly for me...