a proposal for music metadata and playlists

Early 2021 clean-up: well… that one deserves some reaction/more detailed response :wink:
While there’s a lot of stuff in this suggestion that’s not yet available, those features are described in existing suggestions which have a wider attention from the community. This is probably due to the fact that you posted quite a conclusive suggestion which many users either don’t read to the end or don’t agree in every detail.

In order not to let this stand alone (and plainly closed), I’ve tried to summarize what can already done with Plex and where to find those other suggestions.


Described Features

Track

Suggestion Available in Plex
Title General > Title
Album General > Album
Artist (multiple entry) General > Artist (single entry) – there’s a separate feature suggestion to allow multiple entries
Rating General > Rating
Genre (multiple entry) separate feature suggestion (actually one of yours)
Composer (multiple entry) separate feature suggestion
Track number x of y General > Track #
Disc number x of y General > Disc #
Language (one of the choices here should be “instrumental”) I remember having seen a feature suggestion to allow filtering for the track’s audio stream language same as in movies/shows – however I cannot find that suggestion at the moment
Comments not available!

Additional field available with Plex:

  • Tags > Moods

Album

Suggestion Available in Plex
Title General > Album
Title Sort General > Sort Album
Album Artist (single instance) General > Artist
Year General > Originally Available (full date)
Rating (for the entire album) General > Rating
Genre (a non-editable field…)
Language (same idea as album genre) Tags > Genres (editable)
Compilation Tags > Compilations
Comments (for the album as a whole) not available!

Additional fields available with Plex:

  • General > Record Label
  • General > Review
  • Tags > Styles
  • Tags > Moods

Artist

Suggestion Available in Plex
Artist General > Artist
Artist Sort General > Sort Artist
Artist Genre (a non-editable field…) Tags > Genres (not aggregated and editable)

Additional Fields available w/ Plex:

  • Tags > Styles
  • Tags > Moods
  • Tags > Country (actually countries)
  • Tags > Collections
  • Tags > Similar Artists, Biography