A few added features for making smart playlists

[fusio46]

I’ve been using Plex server for years now, new Pass subscriber. And I started using Plexamp on my iPhone. I’m coming from iTunes for making all my playlists, and there are 2 things Plex can’t do that’s keeping me from being able to duplicate the smart playlists I made in iTunes. And after 2 days of messing with everything I can’t find a workaround.

1. full ID3 tag support, I spent a ton of time editing all my ID3 tyags to include data in the grouping & comment tags so I can make complex smart playlists easier.

2. a “playlist is” rule to add playlists inside of other playlists.

3. Or, add the ability to have a “limit to” assignable to each rule you add. So you could have 1 playlist with 10 rules and each rule set up to only allow 1 song, or however many you specify.

[tom80H]

Welcome on board and thanks for your suggestion.
There’s actually already a some existing suggestions addressing those topics.

@fusio46

1. full ID3 tag support, I spent a ton of time editing all my ID3 tyags to include data in the grouping & comment tags so I can make complex smart playlists easier.

Tag support for ROBUST music library organization

This is a request for comprehensive support of the ID3/Vorbis/etc. tags that are necessary for truly meaningful and complete organization of music libraries, both classical and popular. Here is what I hope will be a comprehensive list of the ID3 tags that are essential for digital music management (including special needs for classical music). For FLAC and other file formats, the appropriate equivalents of these tags, if they exist, should be supported. Tags which are necessary for complete ma…

@fusio46

2. a “playlist is” rule to add playlists inside of other playlists.

Playlist Presence Filtering Criteria

I use Playlist inclusion extensively to create really smart Smart Playlists. An example usecase: I add all Christmas music to a Christmas playlist, then exclude this playlist from a smart “Music to Shuffle” playlist. [image]

@fusio46

3. Or, add the ability to have a “limit to” assignable to each rule you add. So you could have 1 playlist with 10 rules and each rule set up to only allow 1 song, or however many you specify.

Playlist of Playlists // mod: Apply "Limit To" per rule group when filtering

I want to make a smart playlist that is kind of complex, built up of several different possibilities. E.g. Songs added within the last 4 weeks Songs rated > 2 stars Songs not played in the last 120 days etc. I want to limit the number of songs that each of those bullets can contribute to the overall play list. E.g., 20 new songs, 30 >2 songs, 20 not recently played songs. With Advanced Filters, there is a final field LIMIT TO, but that is global to the entire playlist. It would be ideal …

Please comment/vote in those existing suggestions in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Also… please stick to 1 suggestion per thread – that way others can vote for an individual feature and don’t have to like the entire package

Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.