How do I change the Release Type of a music album?

[WooZy]

Server Version#: 1.24.5.5173
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The metadata provider for music albums frequently configures an incorrect Release Type (Album, EP, Single, Remix, etc). How do I modify the Release Type?

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Edit - Submitted Feature Suggestion:

Music Release Type (Category) - Manual Edit

MusicBrainz is difficult to use. In addition, there are rare syncing issues where Plex does not reflect the Release Type on MusicBrainz. I propose a Feature Suggestion, a single dropdown field that would allow for a manual Release Type edit. The new feature would probably require 20 or fewer lines of code.

[aubrey.wodonga]

At present, it can’t be modified directly within Plex. You can, however, edit the release group type in Plex’s metadata source, MusicBrainz. I’ve written a quick how-to here:

[How-To] Album Types and Editing MusicBrainz

For anybody who might’ve missed it, Plex recently added support for displaying music release types. [image] After receiving a few questions about this feature, I figured I’d put together a quick explainer to cover enabling/disabling the feature, and editing the release types in MusicBrainz. In my opinion the official docs aren’t clear enough for new users. This guide assumes little to no previous experience working with MusicBrainz, and aims to be user friendly for new users. Enable / dis…

[WooZy]

I wanted to follow-up with your suggestion.

The MusicBrainz metadata provider seems to combine Release Types. Plex decided that one “Album + Compilation” should be filed under “Album”, while others were filed under “Compilation”. There appears to be no rhyme nor reason to the decision made by the Plex software. I made sure that multiple Label releases were not the issue.

Plex should allow me to make a final decision.
I doubt the code is difficult, but I cannot know for sure.

[aubrey.wodonga]

That shouldn’t be the case, can you provide an example of a release that’s pulling in the incorrect type from MusicBrainz?

Agreed that editing the field directly in Plex Web could be a useful feature addition.

[WooZy]

I sent you an example via DM.

Edit: Plex corrected the Release Type after a moment. I am not sure why there was a delay.

[aubrey.wodonga]

Good to know! It can take some time before changes in MB sync through to Plex. Alternatively, if the album in question hadn’t had its metadata refreshed for a while, it could be showing old data.