What I think @user930583 means is the following. To give an example the album IZM is made by two rappers, Rico and Sticks, with producer Kubus on the beats. Instead of one album, he would have three copies, each with it’s own metadata, so that the album shows up on all three of the artists-pages.
Correct me if im wrong, but it’s a “solution” I thought about to reduce the amount of unnecessary “artist A & artist B”-pages I have, but I’m still waiting for a feature to get implemented, rather then having multiple copies and losing the overview.
Completely understand both point of views. Plex Music definitely has a lot of grow potential and for people that have a niche taste, know people that make music, or make music themselves a tool like Plex Music could be ideal. But it has some key things missing.
I think two of the things that would give it a boost are:
Being able to add multiple main artists for each release within Plex
Changing the type of release within Plex (being able to edit it in Plex isn’t possible (yet), but there has been work on this specific feature)
Of course things like groups/members, picture handling, sorting playlists, etc. could improve it too, but these two are my most wanted features, since I think these would improve it the most.
How exactly is Plexamp different then Plex itself? And is the ‘appears on’ feature coming to Plex as well? Because that’s a feature that would add to the experience of the app too.
I’d rather work with the current limitations, I think. Rather than having to do a massive library cleanup whenever Plex improves the library.
In some far future I hope Plex will be able to read “feat. XX” tags and add proper artists for those as well. I’m sure it will happen before I’m retired… right?
I disagree with you on that one. If the artist-field works the same as the genre-field for example it would be pretty easy to edit the albums within Plex. I know which releases from my library need to be on multiple artist-pages, so I except that could be done pretty quicky.
Same goes with release-types. If you would be able to select multiple releases and mark them as an other type like ‘single’ or ‘demo’s’ to collectively change them, that could be done pretty quickly too.
Honestly, if you are on Windows, use MusicBee for your library and never look back. Utilize other players because Plex Music is utterly terrible. I only use it for my soundbar playing through my TV that has trouble if I move too far away when on Bluetooth on my phone.
Plex has no real multi-artist support… (Example: Demon Hunter’s Our Faces Fall Apart song with a guest artist)
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And let’s be honest, Plex will just never be a proper music library. They are still struggling on properly implementing MOVIE editions after years of complaints. Music is a prime candidate for editions since many albums have multiple editions… The only good thing about them is that they actually have multi-genre support, which most programs ridiculously lack.
