We don’t normally respond to feature requests and I still can’t comment on if this feature will be implemented or not, but thought I’d give a little background.
There is no id3 standard for ratings. There is a common tag many programs utilize but it’s a convention and not a standard. Plex does not like to include things that have not been standardized. There is a brief discussion of this ratings issue and id3 tags in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3.
Sure that makes sense! Thank you for taking the time to join the discussion.
What we are trying to do is to build an un-official way to solve this. After all it is only intended for power users who know what they are doing and who don’t mind getting their hands a little dirty. It would be great if you could help us with advice, that’s all. Then people from the community can build it.
Particularly we would like to know how to use the API to change the rating of a song.
This section is for feature requests. If you want to make a separate tool to accomplish this, please post in https://forums.plex.tv/categories/other-third-party-clients and I’ll see if I can help.
thank you for the offer @“MovieFan.Plex”! I opened a new thread here.
Check out the first working prototype! Follow this thread from now on:
Is it possible for Plex to use the Windows metadata from MP3 files for ratings? Before moving to Plex, I used Windows Media Player to rate all of my songs in my (extensive) music collection. It saves the rating to the metadata of the file. I’ve spent years rating all of my music and would like to keep those ratings in Plex. If Plex can’t read this info, is there a way to export it to Plex with some 3rd party app?
There have been many many threads asking for this feature. Most of us tell the same story. We have our MP3s tagged and use some version of autoplaylist by genre and rating. That way when we reinstall Plex or whatever player we are using we get control without going through thousands of tracks again.
All I can think if is that there must be some depp technical issue with reading the MP3s, or there is some threat trigger for DCMA out there. Makes no sense to me.
This is working very well for me. Thanks so much for filling this long-time Plex gap.
It does not see the playlists. Always says “INFO: Synchronizing 0 matching playlists”. I have created static playlists with identical names, but it never wants to sync. Is there some trick to it?
I am getting along with intelligent playlists, but plex still has not made ratings logic work well.
Thanks, again.
I get that but what about for MP3’s using the actual rating field. I am actually doing something crazy and I have wavs and flacs on E drive and on my F drive i am scaling them down to MP3 320 just so i have rating imbedded in the file so its there when I upgrade my computer.
Any updates on this? This is such a huge flaw in Plex.
Requesting this too. I bought a lifetime pass assuming Plex could handle my music library since this feature is a no-brainer but I looked it up and found years worth of threads with people asking for this feature and said threads locked by Plex staff. Looks like I need to investigate a refund process instead so I can use a better application.
Hey Guys at Plex - that was 4 years ago.
Yeah we need this feature, essential for anyone with a local music collection
Like some other users have posted, I tag my stuff meticulously and I do not want to rely on Plex’s database for any metadata that I care about. I’d rather see Plex adopt one of the common rating conventions rather than not do this at all because there is no official way to do it.
If Plex chooses convention A and a user uses convention B, they can use a 3rd party tool like mp3tag to bulk edit their files.
The multi user question can be easily handled. We don’t require full slick multi-user rating for this still to be of enormous benefit. Start with basic support via a per-user setting: Read ratings from MP3 files? Yes/No.
Letting us alter tag ratings from within Plex would be great but we’d need another config option to control which users had that power.
for us, this is a killer feature to have. it’s the one thing preventing us from really being able to utilize the plex music player. Prior to plex, we used foobar2000 and stored the ratings with the metadata of each track. I can’t imagine copying 10,000+ ratings over to plex manually!
Just to add to this growing list of people that can even be bothered to comment and ask nicely to have this simple and much love feature of all other music apps implemented in PLEX.
Go on, it’s easy, well known and would make a lot of people love your software for music. Imagine how many people you have lost already!!??
Oooof. Also need!
Looking to not even bother with music with plex as a result; ugh.
It would be a huge boon if Plexamp could take advantage of all the star ratings in the ID3 tags in my music. ID3 itself is a convention, not a standard - and Plex has no problem reading all those other ID3 tags. Is there any chance of this ever being implemented?
It’s been over a year since the last reply, so I’ll give the thread a bump.
Except they do have major issues reading “all those other tags”, in that there are many, many other tags along with star ratings that they are not reading into Plex, making large music libraries unusable. “Composer” and “Notes” fields are the two big ones for me that make Plex a non-starter for my classical music collection, but there are others missing as well. There are many threads requesting Plex and Plexamp handle basic ID3 tag reading like this, a feature I would have said no music player would even contemplate shipping without, until I loaded up Plexamp and got proven sadly wrong.
To the Plex developers . . . have the defaults be whatever you want, if you really MUST ship the product with whatever vision this is you have for a player, but give us a config menu option buried down three levels deep somewhere that we can flip on to either import all ID3 tags or give us a choice on which ID3 tags we want imported to create smart playlists from so we can enjoy our music.
It always amuses/saddens me the stories we tell ourselves about the freedom technology will give us to do things however we want, yet every generation of technology that ships, the interfaces get shinier and flashier while the options and features get fewer and fewer with less and less actual usability than the generation before.
This seems especially true in the move to client/server / SaaS / cloud. Sales pitch being “you can access your fill in the blank here from anywhere!” . . . with the fine print being "we took out all the features you were using in the stand alone client, so . . . your stuff in the cloud will be unusable . . . BUT! It will be unusable everywhere!
