Associate Music with Movies?

[hansolo77]

I have got a lot of soundtracks for movies that I have in my Plex Server. I only wish that when I click on a movie and see a soundtrack offer, that it loads the soundtrack from my music collection rather than showing a track list which only offers Tidal previews. I mean, I have the album on my server, in my collection! Why does it not cross communicate? Is it supposed to and I have a configuration wrong somewhere? If it doesn’t do that, is there any way to add a request for this?

[tom80H]

The feature you’re referring to is only available with Tidal music.
See “related albums & tracks” in the support article below:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202934883-cinema-trailers-extras/#toc-2

You can however create an actual Collection for both your movie and the related soundtrack to see the OST album as “related media”.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

Example:
in this case the album is linked to an actual collection; you could however also have a “collection” for a single movie to link related albums.

[beckfield]

@hansolo77

is there any way to add a request for this?

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[hansolo77]

Thanks for this! I didn’t realize you could have cross-library collections. I thought a collection only worked for the library you were in. For instance, I have a Star Wars collection, which is in the movie library. I also created a 4k library and have Star Wars movies in there as well, and created a collection there. I also have all the Star Wars soundtracks, but never made a collection for them. Does the music library have collections too? I know they have genres, but I never looked at the collections.

[tom80H]

Music libraries support collections too – in a limited way. That is you can create collections for artists and albums (not for individual songs), but there’s no “Collections” tab as you have it in a movie or tv-show library.
I’m currently using those cross-library collections extensively e.g. to group tv-shows that have their own movies (Star Wars, a number of Animes…) or to link “extras” to collections (see “The Matrix Revisited” in the screenshot above; same for “The Pixar Story” which I didn’t want to add as a movie in my regular movie library )

With regard to backfield’s comment… there’s actually a feature suggestion which pretty much contains the same information we just discussed

[Feature Request] Adding a "Soundtrack" section or link to movies that have soundtrack in library.

One idea recently popped into my mind after I watched a movie (Wreck-It-Ralph) was, “I’d like to listen to XXX from the movie!” I was thinking that it would be nice if Plex were able to associate the movie soundtrack that I have in my music library with the movie in the movie library (and vice versa) and allow me to play the music from the show on the movie title page or take me directly to the album in my Plex music library. I have been thinking of how this could best be implemented, and I th…

[hansolo77]

Cool. Always nice to learn about new features and ways to do things. I was actually thinking about splitting my TV Shows up to have a separate library for anime and cartoons, to make it easier to browse. Exciting to think of the possibilities!