There are a number of other threads – here are a few – discussing the fact that the Plex model, which works great for pop music and most video, is not as well adapted to other forms of music, especially classical music. As someone who’s spent a lot of time dealing with this in my personal collectio…

Interesting, but I don’t like it. iTunes and Sonos do not fragment in this manner; and mimicking these is not the worst plex could do. Implementing the ‘composer’ tag would address many people’s rumbles. Plex and music still need some maturing together, I think. I have nagged plex as regards classi…

Honestly, given how poor iTunes and Sonos support is, I think mimicking them is the problem, not the solution. The Composer tag would help, but only if it was supported at the library level. For example, you could achieve a similar result by: Supporting the composer tag, and Allowing a user to se…

I personally think splitting is not the worst idea, especially since I too have rock contents on my server and in the list of composers in iTunes pieces by bands appear, which for me are unwanted since I browse rock by album or band. I totally could live with that. Thank you for your idea.

An interesting idea, and I’d be happy to see it implemented. A lot of the challenge with classical music seems to be how everyone wants to view it different ways, making it hard to fit into a traditional hierarchy e.g. composer, musical style, period, instrument etc. could all be valid top level cl…

Just wondered if there had been any progress on this front. I’m still only using Plex for pop music and video content right now because there doesn’t seem to be a decent solution.

I currently do have separate Music libraries, one for Classical and one for everything else. I’ve had to configure my ID3 tags improperly, however, in order to make it work. If Plex would just add support for more of the tags specified in the ID3 specification, I don’t think a new Library type wou…

Simple uncomplicated solution to separating popular and classical music. Add two folders under music and rename them “Classical Music” and “Pop Music”, or whatever you wish to call them. Pop music files into Pop - Classical music files into Classical. They don’t mix. They tag automatically.

@colindbrookes said: Simple uncomplicated solution to separating popular and classical music. Add two folders under music and rename them “Classical Music” and “Pop Music”, or whatever you wish to call them. Pop music files into Pop - Classical music files into Classical. They don’t mix. They ta…

Unfortunately Classical music is far more complicated to organise than other music types. I have a separate library for classical and initially thought to categorise everything by composer, but many classical CDs contain music by various composers, so viewing only by composer would split up these CD…

[Feature Request] A proposal for classical and other non-pop music support

General Discussions

beckfield July 5, 2018, 3:55pm 11

Since all votes were lost in the forum changeover, I took the opportunity to create a feature request for comprehensive support for all the tags necessary to fully manage a music library. Please add your vote on that thread.

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[Feature Request] A proposal for classical and other non-pop music support

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