[features] optimize Music Libraries

If i could make a wish (or maybe some of them)

  • still having troubles with a log of covers (they always get dumped and i have to re-analyze my media to get covers back again in the albums view)

  • show music in folders: Why can´t i have the filter applied with this view - only when viewed “all” music, then filters can be used. this just makes no sense. With “as folders” filter bar i greyed out

  • Filter should also contain filter by rating / most played (filter for country seems useless from my perspective)

  • “play similiar music” would be an awesome feature (similiar to currently played track)

  • invent and sell an active speaker system which contains a plex client as a multiroom system (no, i don´t want to build one on my own…) - i want to buy a plex speaker similar to sonos or other :wink:

  • playlists: simple and fast wizard to create a playlist on the fly based on some clickable criteria like (create playlist from folder(s) xyz, abc, etc. not older than 5 years with genres a,b,c - limited to 100 songs)

  • make +A shortcut work to tag all files shown (as typical windows shortcut)

  • have a cool “playing now” interface with covers, mp3 tag infos, showing what song will come up next, etc.

  • plex should tell me about the quality of my music collection: e.g. discover mistypings of artist names, different album covers for different songs of same album, etc…

  • show something like a hitlist for “most played” songs by me or other plex users of my server (maybe automatically rate songs by times played…)

  • show songs, which i haven´t listened to for a selectable amount of time (1 month, 3 months, etc.)

  • in playlist view, the music genre from ID3 Tag should be shown (or further columns should be addable by user based on id3-tag)

  • add further filter features to music collection like year / genre / artist / “similar music” (!)

hopefully other plex users find this list or just some items of it useful - thanks for voting! :wink:

Notes on a couple of your requests:

@ph1975 said:
If i could make a wish (or maybe some of them)

  • playlists: simple and fast wizard to create a playlist on the fly based on some clickable criteria like (create playlist from folder(s) xyz, abc, etc. not older than 5 years with genres a,b,c - limited to 100 songs)

There’s no way to do some of the things you want, but you can use the filters in Plex to narrow your music collection down, then add them to a playlist. When a playlist is formed in this manner, it automatically creates a smart playlist. If you add new music that matches the filters you defined, the new music will automatically be added to the playlist.

“This is the purpose of Plex Mix: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205658167” – can´t find that feature in my up2date Plex Web and current server version. The context menu item “Queue Plex Mix” does not appear. Can you give me a hint why? (play list is premium, server is 0.9.12.11

as for your second point, filters are disabled when viewing “by folders”, for what reason ever…

@ph1975 said:
“This is the purpose of Plex Mix: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205658167” – can´t find that feature in my up2date Plex Web and current server version. The context menu item “Queue Plex Mix” does not appear. Can you give me a hint why? (play list is premium, server is 0.9.12.11

Did you watch the video on that page? It walks you through how to play Plex Mix.

When you follow the instructions to show the context menu showing Queue Plex Mix, what do you see?

2021 clean-up: mix of duplicates, bug reports and implemented suggestions