When I browse the moods categories I get 210 moods for 4374 tracks. Can I reduce the number of mood choices down to like 10?
I have no idea how someone is supposed to use the moods selector. I don’t even know what half of these moods even mean. I don’t have that many different moods. Many of them are synonymous as far as I’m concerned. Beyond that, I don’t have time to browse 210 moods. By the time I found something that fits I probably won’t even feel that way anymore. Sorry to sound like I’m complaining, but it’s such a baffling design choice.
The Plex metadata backend for moods is AllMusic. You can see a list of moods here:
Plex doesn’t have much control or input over these. That said, Plex clients that utilise them for Radios (e.g. Plexamp) have a “threshold” where only moods with over X number of available tracks will be visible.
If you’re unhappy with the existing moods, or would like to change what moods artists and albums are tagged with, you can use the edit function in Plex Web to add or remove these tags.
Alternatively, you can add your own mood tags to your media files using something like MusicBrainz Picard, and enable the Prefer local metadata feature. I wouldn’t recommend this, however, as it’s a whole other can of worms if your media files aren’t meticulously tagged.
Thanks, while I’m not going to manually make adjustments, that’s interesting to know about how Plexamp has a threshold. Ideally there would be an umbrella structure of moods where things like “Bright” “Carefree” and “Cheerful” would all fall under something like “Happy” or “Positive” and Plexamp would only show those higher level moods. That way all of my music would still be available under at least one umbrella mood. Since that isn’t available, being able to manually raise the threshold until my library was down to just a few moods would be a nice feature.
To be honest, I have the same opinion about the genres as well. Too many genres, there needs to be an umbrella hierarchy for those too. Thanks.
