# Managing Music collection

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492 "2021-03-21T12:25:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![kosta.s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@kosta.s](https://forums.plex.tv/u/kosta.s)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492/1 "2021-03-21T12:25:23Z")

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Hello,  
I have my music collection in Lidarr, so basically using it for “first management” - to sort and rename. So I have separate root folders for separate types of music, like Albums, Soundtracks, Scores, Musicals etc.  
Is there a way I can bring Plex to show it also like that, for instance Albums library, scores library, or some kind of filter at least?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![plexmei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/plexmei/32/255262_2.png) [@plexmei](https://forums.plex.tv/u/plexmei)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492/2 "2021-03-21T12:50:10Z")

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in plex and plexamp you can access by folder. for me the albumartist tag is the most important. it keeps number of artists in plex on a small number and i use it to group series of comilations together.

i also have my own genre tags which helps me a lot

you could use genre tags like, musical, soundtrack…  
or you could add more than one library

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**Author:** ![plexmei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/plexmei/32/255262_2.png) [@plexmei](https://forums.plex.tv/u/plexmei)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492/3 "2021-03-21T12:53:37Z")

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plexamp on mobile looks like this. it is amazing!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/4/6/4653fd5f43121f7781f91a832a6555ab13f1df5e.jpeg)

i would definitely check all my tags before adding them to plex

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**Author:** ![Ryuzaki\_2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ryuzaki_2/32/211321_2.png) [@Ryuzaki\_2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Ryuzaki_2)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492/4 "2021-03-30T22:52:12Z")

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If I understand you . You could create a new library for each type of music, and point Plex to the folder you want.

For example. I divide my music by Christmas, Jazz, classical, blues, spoken/audio books, and then everything else.

I have a different library Christmas, and the only folder it looks at is my Christmas music folder.

Not sure if that is what you are trying to do?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/managing-music-collection/702492/6 "2021-08-25T06:34:02Z")

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