Music Library Settings

General Discussions
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Hello everyone, I’m looking for some guidance or at least a straight answer.

Basically, can I view music on Plex without any album information?

For example, let’s say I have 3 album CD’s from the same artist, but I only like 1 song from each album. I upload those 3 songs into my library called ‘Music’. What I would like to be able to do is go into the library on my TV, which is filtered by ‘All Artists’, click on an artist and then see these 3 songs listed and ready to play. Instead, I see 3 albums and have to go into each one individually to choose a song.

I have tried clearing all metadata on the files apart from the artist and song title, before adding it to the library, and I have deselected all album agents (that I was allowed to) from the server agent album settings, but the songs are then just added to an ‘unknown album’.

I can change the filter on the TV to ‘All Albums’, give the album a name of ‘Various’ and upload a fancy picture for it, and I can then see all the songs listed in one place, but just wondering if I have missed something. I like the ‘All Artist’ view with the little description about them, but if it is not possible without having to open each album up individually then I’ll carry on as I am.

Cheers

2

hi. how about making up playlists of your favorite songs, and playing those instead?

-wbm

3

The Playlist is probably the best idea. You also have the option of viewing your library in All Tracks mode. But that displays your entire library as a list of tracks. You can then use the custom filter to find a particular artist.

4

Thanks for the suggestions.

I do plan on using playlists once I’ve uploaded all my music collection, which will consist of 1000’s of songs from 100’s of artists spanning 6 decades. I plan to eventually have a 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s etc playlist that I can use to play all or shuffle.

Sometimes though I will just want to browse all artists and pick one to play, and hoped I could do this without first changing view and then using the filter. I think I’ve cracked it though, everything will go in with album metadata set to various, which you can change on mass within Windows explorer. Then in albums view I can add custom covers and backgrounds and make it look nice, and when choosing one particular artist all their songs will be available to play in one place.

Cheers

5

how wonderful, enjoy