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Plex just changed the game when it comes to music playlists that aren’t terrible
July 16, 2025
When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.
However, in the case of Radiohead, playlists can get messy. Early guitar-based Radiohead doesn’t exactly mix well with In Rainbows-era Radiohead. Not only does this cause problems when choosing what other artists should be on the playlist, but even the Radiohead songs on the playlist can clash. This is a problem that the new Plex Super Sonic feature is going to attempt to fix.
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Super Sonic uses an “advanced neural network” to actually “listen” to your library. That way, when you make a playlist based on a hard-rocking song by The Police, you get other hard-rocking songs — not some sappy Sting solo tracks.
This will change the game when it comes to automatic playlists. However, the feature is built into Plex’s standalone music player calledPlexamp, which is exclusive to Plex Pass users. That means Plex fans on the free tier will be left out.
There’s a lot more to Plex Super Sonic, though.
Plex Super Sonic: A bevy of features for music lovers
Along with the new sound-based playlist creation tool, Super Sonic can do other cool things:
Super Sonic is available now in the latest version of Plexamp. You’ll need to enable it in your Plex Media Server first, and it doesn’t support servers based on ARM CPUs. you may find more information on this inthe Plex blog post.
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