# Browse by Composer **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [December 21, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208 "2009-12-21T20:47:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cnf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/cnf/32/109045_2.png) [@cnf](https://forums.plex.tv/u/cnf)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/1 "2009-12-21T20:47:52Z")
For Classical music, I need to be able to browse by composer I have quite some classical music in iTunes, and my collection is growing. Not being able to browse this part of my library by composer is a major handicap in plex. ---
**Author:** ![cnf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/cnf/32/109045_2.png) [@cnf](https://forums.plex.tv/u/cnf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/2 "2009-12-24T15:21:43Z")
Am I really the only one to listen to classical music on this forum? o,O ---
**Author:** ![raindancing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/raindancing/32/113458_2.png) [@raindancing](https://forums.plex.tv/u/raindancing)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/3 "2009-12-24T16:38:43Z")
No, šŸ˜› but I tend to keep everything in playlists in iTunes so this hasnā€™t been an issue for me so far-- also, I _just_ started using Plex to listen to music with the Bonjour magic released in 0.8.5, since my iTunes library is on my laptop. But Iā€™ll add my +1 for this. If we had it, Iā€™d use it. ---
**Author:** ![cnf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/cnf/32/109045_2.png) [@cnf](https://forums.plex.tv/u/cnf)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/4 "2009-12-24T18:31:50Z")
> [@](#): > > No, :P but I tend to keep everything in playlists in iTunes so this hasn't been an issue for me so far-- also, I \*just\* started using Plex to listen to music with the Bonjour magic released in 0.8.5, since my iTunes library is on my laptop. > > But I'll add my +1 for this. If we had it, I'd use it. I have the same thing. My iTunes is on my laptop, and I run Plex Media Server on there, and stream the music. ---
**Author:** ![fjwelte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/fjwelte/32/180_2.png) [@fjwelte](https://forums.plex.tv/u/fjwelte)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/5 "2009-12-27T01:26:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I have the same thing. My iTunes is on my laptop, and I run Plex Media Server on there, and stream the music. Same problem here. ---
**Author:** ![AndreM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@AndreM](https://forums.plex.tv/u/AndreM)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/6 "2011-02-26T22:58:16Z")
hmmmā€¦ here tooā€¦ My son installed Plex on to our Mac Mini which lives next to our TV. Plex is great for watching movies. Unfortunately it is useless for classical music loversā€¦ Please, please, pleaseā€¦ arange an option to select composers (you know, guys like Mozart, Beethoven and stuff. Of every composer there are dozens of performances of different orchestraā€™sā€¦ ā†’ classical music needs another aproach than just albums and artists!!!) Just do it like FrontRow for starters (but better of course with the option to select the first character ā€œTā€ without having to scroll to Tchaikowsky). You can leave out Genre or things like that as far as I am concerned šŸ™‚ The moment composer selection is implemented is the moment I can leave frontrow. Best regards, AndrĆ© ---
**Author:** ![ddrucker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ddrucker/32/93471_2.png) [@ddrucker](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ddrucker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/7 "2011-02-27T02:13:22Z")
Iā€™ve been requesting this for quite some time. It would really be a huge improvement for me. Canā€™t believe that itā€™s either that weird a request, or that itā€™s that there are so few of us who would like to see it implemented. I wonder if thereā€™s a time when a feature request hits the ā€˜critical massā€™ threshold? ---
**Author:** ![TheFopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@TheFopp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheFopp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/8 "2011-03-09T12:45:09Z")
Please, please, please could we have a search by Composer. Iā€™m stuck having to use both Front Row and Plex as Front Row wonā€™t play back my movies with AC3 encoding (perian is installed etc just get a helicopter noise instead of an audio track) but Plex will, but Front Row happily lets me browse my music collection by Composer whilst Plex wonā€™t. ---
**Author:** ![TheFopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@TheFopp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheFopp)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/9 "2011-03-09T12:45:23Z")
Please, please, please could we have a search by Composer. Iā€™m stuck having to use both Front Row and Plex as Front Row wonā€™t play back my movies with AC3 encoding (perian is installed etc just get a helicopter noise instead of an audio track) but Plex will, but Front Row happily lets me browse my music collection by Composer whilst Plex wonā€™t. ---
**Author:** ![pcaleb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@pcaleb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pcaleb)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/10 "2011-05-05T22:12:36Z")
You can add my name to the list of those needing this feature. For classical it is essential; if itā€™s not there, I canā€™t use Plex. ---
**Author:** ![janauk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@janauk](https://forums.plex.tv/u/janauk)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/11 "2011-07-25T20:29:20Z")
Because of the exit of Front Row in Lion I am switching to Plex. I discovered that Plex is working with iTunes. But I really do miss sorting by Composer. A lot of my music consists of classical music. So I hope that this can be added. ---
**Author:** ![MJS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@MJS](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MJS)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/12 "2011-10-22T10:35:15Z")
They are not interested in adding any classical music support. This has been covered many times. ---
**Author:** ![pm.fitzgerald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pm.fitzgerald](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pm.fitzgerald)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/13 "2011-11-05T12:59:27Z")
This is not just a ā€œclassical musicā€ issue. Bob Dylan is also a composer as is Miles Davis etc. In any caseā€¦ how can a serious music player be without a ā€œbrowse by composerā€? Think about itā€¦ Bach, Beethovenā€¦ Mozartā€¦ the great figures of music of all time and we can only get at them indirectly. I would love to browse to Bach and see everything I have by that composer when deciding what to play! I feel this is a major item missing from the music library. ---
**Author:** ![pooploser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pooploser/32/133851_2.png) [@pooploser](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pooploser)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/14 "2011-11-05T15:17:07Z")
i never use the composer tag, i put the composers in the artist tag, and i put the performer in the album title. f.ex. FrƩderic Chopin - Sonatas (Vladimir Ashkenazy) sorts the mess for good, because then i have everything in the artist list. ---
**Author:** ![TheFopp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@TheFopp](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheFopp)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/15 "2011-11-08T13:10:19Z")
> [@](#): > > i never use the composer tag, i put the composers in the artist tag, and i put the performer in the album title. > f.ex. FrƩderic Chopin - Sonatas (Vladimir Ashkenazy) > sorts the mess for good, because then i have everything in the artist list. But then you can't search by Album title properly. Search by Composer is definately needed so that those of us with large collections of classical music (and other types of music) can use the system properly. ---
**Author:** ![wmb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@wmb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wmb)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/16 "2013-08-08T19:01:11Z")
It's still not implemented, which is a shame. Please, Plex people, this is a must have for us classical music guys. It can't be true that only Apple knows how to do that. ---
**Author:** ![wmb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@wmb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wmb)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/17 "2013-12-20T01:04:21Z")
Bump.. Still not implemented, still needed. Even the Synology music app for iOS can already do this. ---
**Author:** ![stingo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@stingo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stingo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/18 "2014-01-15T19:46:02Z")
Since 2009 and this feature has not been implemented?!?  I like what I have seen of Plex so far but this lack of responsiveness is pretty surprising. ---
**Author:** ![gorg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6de8d8/32.png) [@gorg](https://forums.plex.tv/u/gorg)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/19 "2014-01-24T00:05:03Z")
This is a disgrace. Sorry but it must be said. Here goes my plans of having a media center for my local media (FLACs and home videos too). Any other solutions out there ? (Maybe better go for a more expensive proprietary solution). ---
**Author:** ![wmb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@wmb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/wmb)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208/20 "2014-01-24T15:50:20Z")
> This is a disgrace. Sorry but it must be said. Here goes my plans of having a media center for my local media (FLACs and home videos too). Any other solutions out there ? (Maybe better go for a more expensive proprietary solution). Yeah, can't believe it too. I stopped hoping for an implementation some time ago (asked numerous times!) and gave up on Plex completely. Fortunately my NAS comes with music apps for almost all relevant devices (Synology). They implement user suggesstions quite fast. Browsing by composer is possible since months now. Awesome software. But you need a Synology NAS, of course. [Next page](https://forums.plex.tv/t/browse-by-composer/3208.md?page=2)