Voiced my opinion enough in this reddit post.
Beyond frustrated with the (on surface level) requirement of plexamp’s/Plex’s need for folder structure for music libraries.
A majority of people with massive libraries I can assume have curated their libraries for years.
Eclectic libraries from electronic, dance compilations, yearly era mix tapes, hip hop mixtapes, greatest hits, (need I go on).
The community is currently offering the need for metadata tagging software as fixes.
This destroys some collections that were already tagged fine in Plex. If you use other software platforms like last.fm, say good bye to tracking integrity if you run through these processes, go on a road trip, for a hike with music, gym trip, whatever and notice how completely messed your playlist have got by this “solution” of using software like Picard.
This other reddit thread heard the cries hopeful people of this similar ideology, only to be countered by “this is not a current priority”, which still stuns me as I’ve been so happy with my carefully tagged music library over nearly 24 years in iTunes, just to have Plex, while neatly automate the categorization by styles/moods/radio options with really neat sweet fades, and other fun things, still eviscerate my hopes of some sort of library tracking integrity with last.fm.
There is no on-boarding options when I first start a plex library to navigate this issue gracefully. There is only “not a priority” when this is a self hosted music library solution ultimately.
I ask that people take this various artists option more seriously, or at least give a the two main threads I listed a thorough lookthrough:
First Thread
Second Thread
and understand the concerns, and at least provide ways to navigate this problem to ALL users old and new. Not just those lucky enough to stumbleupon the “gold mine thread” I have yet to discover myself.
Also, rest in peace those unfortunate to not have the TBs of storage to backup everything Plex related, and music library related before endeavoring the task of fixing their library to work as neat as it did in other previous software (iTunes/foobar2000/winamp/etc).
If I’m being a cry-baby and someone can assist me in fixing my problem - that would also be great.
I feel like with Picard I’m partaking in the episode of South Park where I’m just trying to use a software, that at first works wonderfully and then the more I venture into things, I’m being met by “gotchas” with various things I need to fix up way more vigorously than the reliance of Plex Music libraries - escaping the understood need of file/folder directories for TV/Movies.
The music section should be considered re-evaluated, as we all know music is unique in genres, and I know this is not a simple fix. But I would like the priority to be more acknowledge than the reddit threads I listed above.
