Works with MP3 and ALAC but with FLAC, the separator would be included in the genre tag. Say I want an artist to be under both progressive and power metal, I would use Progressive Metal; Power Metal. If the files were MP3, tags and genres would show as ‘Progressive Metal, Power Metal’ – two separate genres. If the files were FLAC, the genre would be under one genre called ‘Progressive Metal; Power Metal’.
Will this be fixed any time soon?
Hmm, I get slightly different (but also wrong) results.
With my flac files tagged Celtic/Irish/Folk, and the Music library configured to get genres from embedded tags, Plex gives me this:
Essentially doing it the wrong way and the right way. Weird.
Does the same if I use semicolon or slash to separate the genres.
Plex Server: Version 1.26.0.5715 on Linux Mint 20.3
Plex Web: Version 4.78.4
The id3 tag standard I think uses a “null” character to separate elements in a single tag. In mp3tag at least, you can enter a null with \\. I wonder if Plex understands null separators? I never checked.
Ya I tried the double backslash thing-- didn’t work. I am using TagScanner though. Don’t know if that has any effect on this issue at all.
Flac uses “Vorbis tags” as meta tags. There are separate rules for these.
The below method works for the current Plex Music agent, as well as its refactored version which will get released in the coming weeks:
Note that there is not one tag with several genre names in it, but two separate genre tags.
Which results in
The two genres are separate. When you mouse-over one of them, you can see only one is underlined.
Aha, this is good to know. I use Puddletag, and if I enter genres with double backslashes, it writes the tags as separate genre tags. Learned something new today!
I see. I use TagScanner and there doesn’t seem to be more than one box for genres as MP3Tag. Guess I’ll try and use that.
Thanks
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