EDIT – For some reason I’m unable to vote for this myself. Says “Limit - you are out of votes, remove an existing vote!”. I’ve deleted a bunch and still can’t vote on this. Hmm.
I love the new “Editions” feature for movies, and I feel like Music is a great candidate for that feature.
Many artists, especially long established ones, have multiple versions of a single album (original release, remaster, remix, another remaster, etc).
Take The Beatles for example (and I agree, this is an extreme example haha) but there are only 10 distinct albums visible in this screen shot, but there’s 30 releases in total!
Dream scenario
It would be great if each release could be visually consolidated down to a single album and then have a way of selecting which version you want to listen to. However, I realize that this adds some friction and complexity to the UI and might take some thinking to figure out the best approach.
Acceptable scenario
An alternative would be to simply add the edition name next to the date, exactly like how it’s done with movies…
While this doesn’t reduce the visual clutter, it does allow the album name can remain true to the original release (instead of having stuff like “25th Anniversary Edition” in the album name itself, which I find ugly).
I know that Plex devs are uneasy about straying from MusicBrainz metadata or implementing additions to it, but this could be handled completely by choice by the user simply by choosing to name the album folder in a way that triggers the Edition feature… eg: Let It Be {edition-2021 Super Deluxe Edition}
Once this groundwork is laid, my dream scenario above could be implemented at a later date.
