I’m running Plex on Windows 10 and just noticed I cannot create a premium music library anymore. I remember the option used to be there when I never really cared about it, but I just started moving my files over to create a new music library and the options tab is not there. It just has select type, add folders and advanced. Any idea what’s going on?
The only recent hardware change I made was I went from a i3-4130 to a i7-4770k CPU on the same board. I don’t know if it happened during that transition or if it’s something else, but I’ve read that it doesn’t work on ARM CPUs only so it should be fine either way.
I believe they got rid of that option. I think they just folded the functionality into the regular music libraries. What I’m seeing is you bring in a music library and it scans until all the music is in there and then after it has actively scanned the library it continues to go through all the music and albums adding in art and metadata as it goes. You can track it in the alerts in admin. But while it does that you can update other libraries which is nice. Someone from PLEX might want to comment on this. I’m not sure if this is turned on if you have a plex pass or what. I don’t really see anything related to premium music libraries anymore. Just something baked into plex pass membership I think.
That announcement says 1.15.8 or higher is required to continue to use premium libraries, however I’m running the latest version 1.16.3 from the beta channel.
Also: Please note that starting July 1, Plex Mix and the ability to create new Premium Music Libraries will be temporarily unavailable. We’re working on some big improvements in these areas as well. New (standard) music libraries will be able to take advantage of these features when they’re available. Stay tuned!
Ok that post sounds a bit confusing since they are saying 2 different things on July 1. So it sounds like you can’t create any new premium libraries after the 1st, but if you already have an existing library, then you need the new version to continue adding music to it.
I agree it is a bit confusing, partly as that second paragraph was added later.
I think there was a bit of a communication failure around the time that Gracenote stopped working. (1st July) as to the implications.
So yes, if you already have a Premium Music Library, you need a fairly new version of PMS and if you don’t have a premium library you can only create a basic music library.
From what I have read and there are a few posts around. (But I could be wrong)
In the future you will not create Premium Music Libraries any more, just Music Libraries and any ‘premium’ features will be applied based on if you have a Plex Pass or not.
At the moment there is nothing we can do but wait until the new Music service is ready, and there is no point asking when, as Plex never provide that sort of info.
The whole statement is as clear as mud. Right now, I can add music to my premium library. But one sentence says,
So I’m wondering if it’s worth my time to continue adding music to my Premium library, or if at some point in time, I have to create a Standard library to get the new features. Does that mean, I basically start over, or does
ensure my current premium library, and new music I’ve added, will be magically upgraded?
yep, your guess is as good as mine. I am not sure.
I am currently still adding stuff to my Premium library in the hope that it will migrate over. If they do turn round and say you will need to create a new library, that will be a royal pain ** *** ***
tbh, I was hoping it was only going to a short time period (days not weeks… or months, who knows as they ain’t saying) for them to get things sorted to enable the ‘new’ system, it seems I may have been sadly mistaken.
I have to wonder what the reasons were for ditching Gracenote without a new system imminent especially as Premium Music is/was one of the Plex Pass selling points.
They probably halted adding of Premium music libraries because they don’t know how long the rework will take (though if they’re software developers worth their salt, they should) and they don’t want your PMS doing so much more metadata conversion when it’s ready. I think it’s about perception.
Yes, No.
Once the features are getting released, you can convert your Premium library to the new music agent.
With a Refresh it will then go out and fetch new metadata.
Sometimes it will correct things, because MusicBrainz provides better data to do that.
If you have ‘Prefer Embedded metadata’ activated, you will not notice much change, naturally.
That’s as much as I can divulge before launch.
So, to repeat: your current libraries will not become obsolete or read-only.
I’ve been using MusicBrainz Picard to fetch and write metadata to my music files for the last couple of months. I do have Use embedded tags enabled - I assume that’s the same as Prefer Embedded Metadata. I’m hoping Plex will just add/supplement the extra info as needed to make the library “awesome” without the need to disable that option.
I kinda felt the need to use my own metadata, because I wasn’t always happy with the results that Last.FM or Gracenote came back with, for the basic and obvious (to me, anyway) information.
I appreciate your reply on the topic. Is there any tentative date for the release of the new features? I got the premium pass mostly because of the music-related features (audio fingerprinting, mixes, etc).
