Hello, I am pretty new to Plex, I have searched the forum and the internet for some answers to this question prior to writing to you but have not been able to find simple solutions. I have found many discussion around this but nothing that specifically seems to answer my query.
Is there a way I can clear all the metadata associated to “styles”, “moods”, “record label”, “collections” and “labels” then lock the fields?
Ideally I would like to clear these tags in one easy bulk action., In my other music programs, I can select all, and just clear a field using the space bar or adding a dot then deleting it and it clears all the data so I am left with a blank canvas.
Using Plexpass on my mobile and DAP I have no need for the “moods”, “styles” etc etc and would like to clear that data out completely.
For example, so that all my files end up looking like this
So far it seems the only way I can clear these and show them as blank is to manually go in and clear each albums tags, then lock them, but for over 2500 albums that seems like a lot of work and in 2025 I am hoping there is a quicker more efficient way.
I don’t know if you can do 2500 albums in a single pass, but Plex Web/Desktop supports multi-select. When viewing your music library by albums, hover over the first album’s poster and select the empty circle in the top-left. Then, select an album further down the list and do the same thing, but this time shift-clicking.
This will select all albums in between the first and last, inclusive. Then you can click the edit pencil at the top where it shows the number of items selected. All of those fields should be available and show as “Mixed.” You can blank them and the fields should lock.
I think if you select the first album and then slowly scroll to the last and shift-select it it may work in one big group. Otherwise you’ll have to do them in smaller chunks.
Thank you, I did try that but it doesn’t clear things out totally, not sure why. I did this for an artist on its own, and at first it looked like it worked but then when you go back into each album the fields are not emptied. It is odd.
I noticed mood radio, but in my plexamp app it shows 248 moods and 162 styles. I don’t have that many moods LOL.
I guess ultimately I prefer to have my files all clean and that is shuffle via genre, year, artist, it is how I have media monkey and musicbee set up. Aside from this frustration point for me PLEX is sensational and taking my FLAC library with me OTG is great, it might just be I need to do this manually and then when I add any new music it becomes part of the process for me?!
That’s how I do it. I am a sticker for setting my own genre tags, and use them heavily through Smart Playlists (that you have to build in Plex for Web).
I don’t use Plex Moods or Styles at all, but I also find it easy to just ignore the buttons that reference those things. YMMV.
FWIW I do find Plexamp’s other Radio features good, and Artist and Album Mix Builders are also good… I would encourage you to explore what it offers, you may be surprised that you find something new to like.
Agree, I think I like it to look neat and uniformed and where a field is not something I will use I feel like I should be able to negate it or remove it. In this case I realize I cannot remove it but negating it should be optional. In all seriousness, some of the moods are quite amusing, not sure I have ever felt angular or autumnal or brassy LOL. My music taste is from death metal to jazz to pop to blues, but I cannot associate with 248 moods or 162 styles.
