Please add the ability to filter Music Tracks by Genre. Thank you, in advance.

There is an existing request for this. Please vote for it by clicking ‘Like’ on the first post in that thread.

Thanks, but that request is about how “virtual” genre tags are populated at the album level. My request pertains to filtering existing genre tags at the track level. I don’t want to use Plex to create, edit or maintain my ID3 tags. I want it to read and filter what’s already there. I noted the disc…

Currently, Genre is only stored at the album level. Sad but true. So for the ability to filter tracks for genre, you need to have ‘genre’ tags at the track level in the first place.

Not true. Genre is stored at the track level. It’s inherent to the MP3 file format. My tags are already in place.

@srewobwj said: My tags are already in place at the track level. That may be, but Plex doesn’t read them into its database.

Again, not true. Plex uses the existing ID3 tags stored in the MP3 files to create its virtual tags at the artist and album levels. It shows those tags on the artist and album profiles. I have a basic music library. All of my Elton John songs are tagged as “Rock.” Here’s how it looks on the artist p…

Sorry, not trying to be argumentative, but it seems like there’s a lot of confusion about ID3 tags: where they’re stored, how they’re maintained (e.g. not in Plex) and how Plex uses them (which it does). Here’s how Plex displays the virtual genre tags it created from the genre tags it read from my M…

@srewobwj said: Plex uses the existing ID3 tags stored in the MP3 files to create its virtual tags at the album level. That is my point. The genre is only stored at the album level. But you want it at the track level. All filters are only available for their level. So at the moment you can only…

Here’s an example of the virtual tags created by Plex at the album level using the genre tags in my MP3s. [image]

@srewobwj said: Here’s an example of the virtual tags created by Plex at the album level using the genre tags in my MP3s. Yes, and if you switch your library into the ‘Album’ view mode, the ‘Genre’ filter is available to you. Just as it is in the ‘Artist’ view mode.

Music - Filter Tracks by Genre - #19 by tom80H - Feature Suggestions

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Music tracks need genre

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July 29, 2024

How to make "Album Genre" match ID3 tagged genre of the underlying tracks

General Discussions

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167

June 11, 2023

Genre Tag Confusion - Track, Artist, Album

Metadata & Adding Files

server-windows , server-synology

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101

June 18, 2021

Music Tags - Genre Tagging Question

Metadata & Adding Files

server-windows , server-synology

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September 27, 2020

[Feature Request] Genre Filter in Track View

Feature Suggestions

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June 10, 2021

Music - Filter Tracks by Genre

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