tom80H
December 11, 2023, 6:28am
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Plex is using metadata from Musicbrainz to categorize the different release types. There’s an existing suggestion to allow for a local override where users can directly modify the MusicBrainz categorization inside Plex.
MusicBrainz is difficult to use.
In addition, there are rare syncing issues where Plex does not reflect the Release Type on MusicBrainz.
I propose a Feature Suggestion, a single dropdown field that would allow for a manual Release Type edit. The new feature would probably require 20 or fewer lines of code.
There’s also a guide on how to trigger a correction directly at the source:
For anybody who might’ve missed it, Plex recently added support for displaying music release types.
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After receiving a few questions about this feature, I figured I’d put together a quick explainer to cover enabling/disabling the feature, and editing the release types in MusicBrainz. In my opinion the official docs aren’t clear enough for new users.
This guide assumes little to no previous experience working with MusicBrainz, and aims to be user friendly for new users.
Plex already considers the RELEASETYPE tag in the files‘ embedded metadata to override the categorization.
I’ve run some tests what you can put in the Release Type embedded tag:
album;compilation goes to “Compilations”
album;soundtrack goes to “Soundtracks”
album;remix goes to “Remixes”
album;live goes to “Live Albums”
album;demo goes to “Demos”
single goes to “Singles & EPs”
ep goes to “Singles & EPs”
album;album goes to “Albums” [moderator edit, added after verifying it]
^ to be clear, everything else goes into “Albums”
edit: other MBZ categories like album;mixtape, album;dj-mix or br…
