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Plex does alright at suggesting music from your own library, and also has some really nice DJ-like song transitions that are legitimately way better than any other track fades. However, Plex users have been frustrated with the company's slow response to fixing long-standing bugs, and some of the features are paid. It's also not open-source.
No idea if it can suggest music that isn't in your library; I know that they integrate with Tidal though, so maybe if you have that it'll also suggest stuff from Tidal?
You can reasonably use Tidal to find new suggestions and plex to actually listen to stuff. That's basically what I do. Tidal's algorithm for discovering new music is better than Spotify's imo, was pleasantly surprised when I switched because of plex/tidal integration. The biggest pain will be the initial Tidal setup with music preferences (likes/dislikes etc)
I will say though that Tidal/Plex integration is far from perfect, I initially got it to mix my downloads with a streaming service and quickly discovered plex cannot download Tidal songs which put a huge dent in my plans.
I had high hopes for the plex/tidal integration. But it is not ready yet. Hoping they can improve upon it, when things worked it was great.
Would be awesome if tidal or Spotify had a lower cost “discovery” account that had a limited number of streams per month that could integrate with plex/plexamp to stream AND provide recommendations. But I think the market for the is probably too small for them.