I’m currently manually moving all my music over from Apple Music (ex-iTunes, not the annoyingly-the-same-named streaming service) to Plex. iTunes has treated me well for years, but it’s gotten to the point where it just isn’t very good as a local music library app any longer. I tried out Plex Music and I’m sold - I’ve moved about half my library over, while updating tags, album artwork, all that. It’s been a lot of work but I’m really happy with it.
However, one thing I really loved about Apple Music was the ability to store .pdf’s and .m4v’s alongside an album. Sometimes that’s liner notes. Or a bonus music video from iTunes or from the file system partition of a mixed media CD (remember those?). As a musician myself, sometimes that was storing sheet music alongside lesson tracks as well. From what I can tell, Plex has zero support for non-music file types, and I find that very disappointing. It’s lovely to have those things right next to album artwork while you’re listening to an album.
Movies and TV shows have extras support in the form of trailers and bonus features and all that - music should have support for album extras as well. It’s very easy (programmatically) to generate a PDF preview, but even just a line item inline with the track listings for an album would be more than sufficient.
A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.
Therefore this one is closed, to prevent spreading the votes across several threads, even though they vote for the same (or at least very similar thing).
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Plex has support for various music video types on the “Artist” level.
On the “Album” level, it can only add videos, which are specifically about a particular song on that album.
