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

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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?


Edit - Submitted Feature Suggestion:

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:

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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