Server Version#:1.25.2 Player Version#:Shield/Web So many good things lately but one that’s set me backwards is the new Plex music’s desire to categorize albums as live or compilations. Sometimes it just gets them wrong, and sometimes I just want everything in chronological order. Is there a wa…

Plex gets the album type from MusicBrainz, so if it’s wrong in Plex, it’s wrong at MusicBrainz. You’d have to edit it there. You can disable the grouping in Settings: [image]

I think this needs more work. Sometimes MusicBrainz is not actually wrong, but it’s not how you want it. E.g. Beatles albums Help, Hard Days Night etc are grouped as Soundtrack and they were used in the films of those names, but they are not like most soundtrack albums and I certainly don’t want the…

[image] Music Release Type (Category) - Manual Edit Feature Suggestions 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 w…

Thanks to you both, beckfield & UKenGB–it’s nice to know on today’s internet that there are people who agree with me. (I remember once getting the suggestion here that I “try not sucking so much,” which is generally great advice but it didn’t fix that problem I was having in Plex.) I tried an idea …

Categorizing albums

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beckfield December 19, 2021, 6:39pm 5

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Categorizing albums

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