Me too! Need organization by composer!!!!!!!!!
Me too. I never play music with Plex because of this.
Won't renew my PlexPass as long as this feature is not supported, or at least planned.
Add one more to the list. Need organization by Composer!
@lsamberg said:
Add one more to the list. Need organization by Composer!
Vote here: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/58040/by-composer/p1
I don’t use plex to organise by music because of the lack of the composer tag.
Cannot vote here because of permission.
Still, I want this basic “feature” so much.
Sorting by Composer is essential for classical music. All the main Music Media managers understand this eg MediaMonkey, Foobar, MusicBee, Itunes. If Plex wants to be taken seriously as a Media “manager” it should implement this. How hard could this be it’s only another tag, but a very important one for classical music lovers.
@daver88 said:
Sorting by Composer is essential for classical music. All the main Music Media managers understand this eg MediaMonkey, Foobar, MusicBee, Itunes. If Plex wants to be taken seriously as a Media “manager” it should implement this. How hard could this be it’s only another tag, but a very important one for classical music lovers.
i second that! plex music still is too pop-centric (like all those streaming services out there) … better tag-manegement and tag browsing is required to be a serious competitor to itunes …
I wish they would realise too.
Edit: Any news on composers?
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PUSH
Still no movement in this 
it’s a little thing that would let me finally add all my classical music…
Browse by Composer is the one missing feature that stops me ditching other apps for accessing my music collection. If it were done right, I’d buy a Plex Lifetime Pass straight away.
By “done right,” I mean:
(a) Indexing music tracks by the ID3 “Composer” tag, in addition to “Artist”. In classical music collections, the “Artist” tag identifies the musicians, eg, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the “Composer” field identifies the composer, eg, Beethoven, Ludwig van. Browsing by composer should split up albums that contain works by more than one composer, so the same album appears several times in the browse page.
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(b) Indexing by “Album artist” ID3 tag, in addition to “Artist”. If the “Album artist” field is set, then it is used to locate the album in the Browse by Artist listing, instead of the “Artist” field. This allows for the individual track “Artist” fields to contain detail about per-track soloists, eg, “Berlin Philharmonic & Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin)” vs “Berlin Philharmonic”. while the whole album can still appear under simply “Berlin Philharmonic” in Browse by Artist. When displaying the info for a track, the “Artist” field is displayed instead of “Album artist”.
Most of my music is classical music. It is difficult to get CDs categorized in such a way that lends itself to searching. Also, given that classical is often structured different from other types of music. An opera for example can pose many problems, where when you use musicbrainz for example it may primary list the symphony orchestra or conductor or the soloists, composer can be hard to find. I myself prefer to go with an established music database (musicbrainz or discogs, then freedb last resort) and at least then I can find music. Wish there was a better answer is probably it - good luck.
I just wrote an extended critique of the crappy way that Amazon deals with music because I’m frustrated with that, and now I’m going to do the same thing here, mostly because I’m pissed that Plex keeps promising that their music offerings will improve while simultaneously delivering the worst possible experience for people who love art music. I don’t care about Plexamp. I don’t care about “Premium” libraries that continue to not use my proper and correct metadata.
Plex people, here’s the problem: Your database schema for dealing with music is hot trash. I understand that most music can be described by just a performer, track title and an album, but not all music works that way. Music that doesn’t work that way is REALLY hard to fit in those three boxes. Music-handling applications that are at least capable of looking at tags should be able to switch to a grown up schema that allows for Composer, Ensemble, Soloist(s), Conductor and timestamp as well as the standard artist/album/title sorting.
I’m a classical music guy, but even setting things outside the world of classical music, Jazz and Hip-Hop are genres where the featured soloist might not normally be part of the performing ensemble and the attributed artist might not represent the people who wrote or are performing the music in question. Timestamps are useful for encores or multiple recordings of the same piece (particularly for someone who has recordings of their own performances - which in my case at least would be the most interesting music I have to share).
It’s a goddamned shame that people responsible for building tools to enjoy music, be it Apple or Amazon or Plex, don’t want to address the very real problems their limited scopes for sorting creates.
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Adding a +1 here - this is a very basic feature that Plex should make a priority. Shuold be able to set additional contributing artists too.
As someone with diverse music tastes, I would point out that this is a concern even for pop/rock/country/etc. music, even if less urgent. You want to be able to tag the original songwriter so you can include Beatles covers (for example) when you search for them.
Would be nice for my collection of video game and movie soundtracks. +1
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