Thanks for your post, agree with you, it would be great news to see track based genre announced in an upcoming update.
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No, that doesn’t work, because Plex doesn’t give us the ability to use the the track artist in a smart playlist, only the album artist. You can’t search for the artist “Xmas” in a smart playlist, it doesn’t exist as far as Plex is concerned.
Plex does need to re-evaluate their “albums only” system, it is the major flaw in Plex Music. It’s been like that forever, so I doubt there will be a change. 
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Please add. Thanks.
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Im onboard with this only if this would let me filter the “popular tracks” by this genres itself.
The thing that annoys me the much about the music library is when an artist comes out with a live album, and then all the frickin popular tracks are altered to it.
+1 and they could add lyrics metadata if you dont have sidecar lyrics.
I’m not using Plex for music at all, because it has several shortcomings. Tracks without numbering are detected as different albums, no (smart)playlist import from iTunes, no genre per song, no year per song. It’s quite prehistoric compared to iTunes and Apple Music.
This will be super useful when you have compilation CD on the library since tracks might belong on different genres.
Please, Plex devs? Any love to show here? Been using you for years, but still must manually sync playlists with iTunes because I can’t create a smart playlist in Plex based on track metadata.
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Now that Google Play Music is being shut down and I’m forced to use Youtube Music, I was hoping Plex would be a good alternative. I think I dont ask for much. Play, pause, next previous, shuffle and repeat, search and track-based genres are all I need, and in my opinion are really basic requirements for any music playing service. Please add track-based genres!
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This topic has been open for years… is it in any way possible to get feedback/response from the Plex Team? At least give us hope, or just state that it will never happen.
This major shortcoming in Plex is what is stopping me from investing in a pass
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Agree, would like Plex team to chime in directly. Music functionality not directly editing/respecting tags and star ratings, and the lack of genre/automatic playlist is still missing. Maybe we all should submit bug reports for this?
So after a few years, zero progress on the Music Genre sorting issues and options? Great. So, I realize there are delays, but dating back to 2012?
This seems like track genre would be an easy feature to add. I would use Plex more often if it had this. Please “vote” for this.
But bizarrely you can filter on track mood, why on earth is this not track genre
on all my christmas albums I have set the track mood to Xmas so I can omit them in smart playlists for the rest of the year
if they even made the default track mood to be the same as track genre it would help
This is the only thing that annoys me the most about Plex at this moment. A library of thousands of albums and songs that are tagged perfectly and now I can’t play the different genres on track level. For listening to my music selection based on genre, I have to use DS Audiostation instead.
Another fix would be to create playlists on folder level. That option also dissapeared somehow?
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In my opinion, any application designed to host a music database MUST support all Field afforded by the formats tagging metadata.
It is the method by which the format creators intended for use to use when organizing our files.
Plex needs to take its lead from the metadata present in the file, and if missing, attempt to scrape it based on file name information.
I realise based on other discussions present that the current Plex music database structure doesn’t support this, but honestly, I can’t take Plex seriously as a music library. The lack of support for using the file metadata fields to create smart playlists means that every time I try and recreate my iTunes playlists in Plex, I end up frustrated and delete the new playlist.
iTunes and other music library apps do this, and even support your own entry in the track genre fields, and can create smart playlists based on those fields.
Plex needs this if they intend to even make an attempt to dig into iTunes market share.
iTunes, now Apple Music, may be considered the Devil because of how bloated it got, but one thing that was done right from the get go and never needs changing is its library management and playlist features. Its top notch and nothing has ever come close to it.
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I agree with the many others complaining about lack of track genre in Plex. As others have stated it is hard to take Plex seriously as a music manager when it doesn’t even support using existing tags and metadata. The release of Plexamp is hilarious given that the plex server lacks so many basic features. The sync features hasn’t worked reliably in all the years I have had a lifetime plexpass, which I bought just for the sync feature at the time.
More and more it feels like Plex is focusing solely on video content. The photos support is awful and prone to frequently crashing clients, particularly small CPU clients like Roku and Firestick. No animated gifs, no smart organization (GPS, faces, AI guesses at content, etc), again lack of use of metadata in files which is already present. I’ve also moved my photos and music over to a Synology NAS with their media servers due to Plex’s apparent lack of any interest in anything but video content in the last few years.
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I continue to agree with everyone’s responses, thanks all for continuing to visit this topic. Sorry to see it still in the same shape as over a year ago for music… 
Still in the hybrid model of only using Plex for listening to a specific album, otherwise need to use my phone which has my rated/tagged auto-playlists in it (using local metadata). So i am in a weird hybrid model of MusicBee (best mp3 player, local tag editing, playlist generation), iTunes (dump the library from MusicBee into here each time i sync my phone because apple doesn’t play well), then Plex (for album listening only, no support for local tag smart playlist and editing).
I’ve also moved my photos and music over to a Synology NAS with their media servers
Curious what this solution could look like ^^^ , but again it shouldn’t be required.
I re-iterate my point from over a year ago, who uses “mood” more than genre? 
If Plex could get serious about it, it would preclude the need for either MusicBee or iTunes (using the plex phone app).
Yes, the “mood” tags are pretty ridiculous given track genre isn’t available. Or maybe we are supposed to put “pissed” into the mood tags for everything? :- P
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