Music Assistant reduces pauses caused by finding similar tracks in a large library. The affected searches could freeze the whole server, including music streams, while choosing a varied set of recommendations.
In Marcel van der Veldt’s 50,000-track test on an Apple Silicon Mac, a demanding request fell from a 17-second freeze to 12 milliseconds. It requested 100 tracks with five starting tracks, a search depth of five and diversity set to 0.2. Default similar-track settings stayed at two milliseconds; the selected tracks and their order stay the same.