When I use Plexamp, the styles and moods area shows no content. Is this an automated feature? Or do I have to actively tag all my music with a style and or mood? Also can the style and mood feature pull content related from my Tidal integration?
When you’re using the regular Plex music agent, Plex will populate those fields based on its online sources. If you’re using only embedded metadata they’re not going to show.
Thank you for the quick response! Makes sense! So if I have most of my library as live music recordings (Grateful Dead, Phish, Jam-band etc., and personal mixes and I have been using embedded metadata so it’s fine-tuned and accurate to my content (especially home-made album covers). Would you say that the Plex Music Agent could potentially mess that up if I switch it to Plex music agent?
Thanks again!
No, that’s not what I said / meant to say.
My point was about explaining how Plex can source its metadata, depending on your configuration. Some of those use cases could result in Plex not getting any style/mood information.
If you use the agent Plex Personal Artists, Plex will only consider information coming from your local files.
If you use the agent Plex Music you can configure Plex to prioritize embedded metadata and local artwork over online metadata. With this configuration Plex should check for embedded metadata and complete its database with online data if possible.
I have my music library set to use embedded tags and genres, as well have the music library to use “Plex Music” as the agent and scanner. The styles and moods are not as easy to get to, but Plex does download them.
To see the styles and/or moods associated with an artist or album, scroll down as far as you can go towards the bottom. The default view is “Styles,” click the second "Dot, and you will see “Moods”. Clicking the arrow will bring up even more styles and moods.
From there you can play a radio based on any of those styles or moods.
EDIT: if your personal mixes are set up an album, I doubt that associated moods and styles will be automatically downloaded. Manually editing tracks, etc would likely be the only option.
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fantastic, many thanks to both of you for the clarifications - will try!
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