Individual music tracks have an edit button, and I can use this to add or delete “moods” on the track. Once I do this, there doesn’t seem to be any option to search using those tags. I can’t find any indication they exist outside of editing tracks.
So, uh, what’s the intended use of this feature?
Moods only really work in a Premium music library. Which requires a Plex Pass.
I have a Plex Pass (partly because I thought it’d make moods work but mostly for Android support), but I didn’t when I created the music library. Do I have to upgrade the library somehow?
I see I have the option to create a Premium library when creating a new one. I’d be nice to not have to do that, but fortunately I didn’t put much time into tagging things yet.
I wouldn’t delete the old library just yet. Keep it around for a few weeks.
The premium library is more peculiar about your file names and folder organisation.
Here are some tips regarding music
multi-disc albums
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
handling singles and EP’s
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
possible ‘side car’ files for music
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1319703/#Comment_1319703
soundtracks and ‘various artists’
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1472799/#Comment_1472799
So track moods now “work” in that I can filter my library by a single mood, but I’m not able to do searches with them. They seem equivalent to playlists, but with a slightly clunkier interface to manage them, so I feel I must still be missing something.
That’s about it with ‘moods’.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/205000118-how-do-i-use-mood-information-for-tracks-or-albums/
Until they appear among the ‘custom filters’, this is all you can do with them.
Interesting, so it’s intended as more of an automatic categorization, while playlists would be a manual categorization. I don’t see any automatic moods yet, but maybe they’ll show up when more of the library is scanned.
That may take a while, depending on the size of your library.
If you don’t use a strict Artist > Album > Tracks folder schema, some tracks may never get a mood. (the analyser from Gracenote simply aborts when it encounters too many files in a folder)
How I can use Mood mix??
I can’t find moods…
Angrywoks, you just clarified something I’ve been thinking about for a few days now! I’m a newbie who’s exploring moving my music player from Subsonic to Plex for their cleaner interface, and I’ve been extremely disappointed to see that you can’t share playlists (which you can easily do with Subsonic). Now I’m encouraged to see that I can just set up the moods with the same names as my playlists and filter them. The order isn’t maintained, but I never cared about that; I always use random play within a playlist, which I can now do with a mood filter.
It may be a clunkier interface, but I don’t care about that so much.
