Music Genres in Plex - track-based browsing and filtering

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Ask: Add track-based genre filtering throughout (including smart playlists custom filter dropdowns) and specifically add it as a quick option in the music main browsing view, first dropdown that says “All” by default.

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Why does Plex player de-prioritize sorting/filtering by music genre? Can you please add these options in an update? Windows player updated example current as of 4-30-20:

  • Music browsing first drop down offers all/mood/rating/source/custom filter… - why no genres?
  • Music Library second browsing default dropdowns are artists/albums/tracks/folders - why is genre missing?
  • Music library custom filter setup offers “album genre” and “artist genre” in the huge dropdown choices but that’s too general - no “track genre” option? (Artists like Gorillaz can have jazz/rock/rap tracks all on the same album so these existing options are not useful.)

PS- rhetorical question for the UI - who uses “mood” tag more often than track-based genre filtering?

Edit- the album based view drop-down offers Genre, but for Gorillaz-based reasons above this is not useful.

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Plex doesn’t store Genre per track. Only per Artist or Album.
Hence why it is not available as a Quick Filter in the ‘Tracks’ view mode.

If you use the Custom Filter, there are both ‘Album Genre’ and ‘Artist Genre’ filters.

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There is a feature request thread that could use your vote.

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Voted, thanks for the link

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This is a basic key feature for a music server/player and is absolutely needed. Voted on other post as well.

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Thanks! Everyone UNITE! We need this need-to-have to float above the other nice-to-haves! haha

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In the meantime, for those finding this thread and frustrated, these are the best players I have used for tag embedded library management (which should be the industry default) which work fast and handle ratings, track based genre, and dynamic playlists:

  • Windows - MusicBee
  • Linux (including Ubuntu/Pop version 20+) - Guayadeque
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