Many tunes in less commercial genres are only availible on compilations, and dumping half of my collection just to get Plex to work the way it should is not an option.
neither is harassing the billing email 
Wow, such entitled childishness.
As a Plex Pass subscriber you know that some of us are paying for Plex so it literally isn’t entitled. Even those who aren’t paying are trading their personal information, database info, and viewing habits to Plex in exchange for the product. Your argument is childish.
Let’s curb it down a notch.
As fun as it can be to see this play out, it’s not adding to the feature suggestion (nor does ranting or threatening to harass Plex support).
As for
Re-read the privacy statement. None of your database is exposed; Plex only tracks certain media characteristics and what client is used (resolution, bitrate…).
I’m very glad you got this out of your system.
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines#heading---agreeable
…How is supporting track genre still not a thing?
Man, I’ve been finding more reasons to not use Plex Music than use it recently…
I’m astonished that such a basic feature is not part of Plex. I’ve no idea what ‘Album Genre’ is but when I do a filter on that for example, it only shows 3 of my hundreds of Hip-Hop albums which are meticulously tagged.
Please add this.
I have plenty of actual albums but still can’t see how to shuffle play all tracks of a particular genre - how can I do this?
In Plex or Plexamp?
Plex music library view → Tracks, then Advanced Filters → Album Genre is “Reggae”, then top right “shuffle” button.
Plexamp has Library → Album Genre → Reggae → Shuffle
(adding my vote for track-specific Year and Genres, it’s super annoying that having one “Reggae” song automatically makes all songs on the entire album “Reggae”, etc).
@certuna:
In Plex.
Plex music library view → Tracks, then Advanced Filters → Album Genre is “Reggae”, then top right “shuffle” button.
Plexamp has Library → Album Genre → Reggae → Shuffle
OK, thanks for that - a bit fiddly, but it seems to work…
Recently decided to switch from iTunes to Plex. Not as easy as I thought. About one thing I wasn’t aware of: Tracks don’t have genres in Plex…seriously? Plex is so good for many media and reasons, but this is just bad…very bad. I used to have multiple smart playlists in iTunes, which work with star ratings and genres (in tracks). They all are useless in Plex. It’s not the same when genres are for albums only…it’s just wrong and doesn’t make any sense. Genres belong to tracks and tracks only, not albums nor artists. Albums can contain multiple different genres and artists can make songs with different genres. Everyone knows that simple fact.
All those reasons have been mentioned multiple times already, but I had to write them down, too. I’m pretty sure even the developers would like to listen to music in the right way, not in a way that doesn’t make any sense. Please do it, for us, for you, for everyone who needs a really good place to store and play music.
Thanks in advance!
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Come on, Plex! It’s been nearly eight years and it is obviously the right answer. Music in Plex still feels like a checkmark on a feature list rather than a fully useful thing. I’d love to finally be able to use plex for music but doing a simple thing like filtering holiday music out of a smart playlist is impossible based on the existing metadata because genre doesn’t exist at the track level.
And every possible workaround for that is just that, a workaround with repercussions that make music harder to manage and not easier.
Please, please, please implement this!
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Since we’re only able to vote for five feature suggestions, I have been putting off voting for this suggestion. To be honest, I just assumed that Plex would come to the realization that album and artist level genres simply don’t work for smart playlists or filtering. Suggesting we use “moods” or “styles” is not a solution, it’s a poor work-around, especially for anyone who has spent the time to tag our music the way we want it.
Add my vote for this obvious and logical suggestion
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The latest Plex Pass Beta update for the server now can store track genres! and has some more filtering options. I’ve just barely installed it, so I can’t make any comments at all about the capabilities, but I would think a huge step forward. (I believe you’ll have to refresh the metadata on your music library)
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AMAZING!!! After almost a decade it sounds like something else finally pushed them to update the database and now they can fix the per track genre issue!
Of course, I’ve long ago moved from using PleX to other apps for music and am LOVING Roon and all the Roon Ready players that are now available. I highly recommend anyone still playing music on PleX or PleXamp to check out the Roon eco-system instead. Guaranteed you won’t miss PleX (although you can run both in parallel too).
So?
Why bother posting here then if you’re so in love with Roon?
Besides, Roon can’t store genres per track, pfff. 
Furthermore, Roon has much trouble getting mobile (Arc) functioning well, CarPlay, search is slow and could crash Roon server, poor performance with large libraries, Roon Radio is a joke.
Areas where PlexAmp performs flawless.
Need I say more?
Yes, one more thing, (I have a Roon lifetime as well) I stopped requesting features because Roon does not listen to what their customers want. And take a look at long-standing (+6 years!) support requests which are still not solved.
Obviously, I’m posting here in my frustrations with PleX and letting people know that there are other options which have some marked improvements. Is Roon perfect? No, but I’ve found the community supports each other better, the developers listen to feedback, and now they have the support of Harmon behind them to push for RAAT to become “the standard” in local audio streaming.
To address your other points, yes, Roon ARC is a bit limiting, but if you have a VPN/ZTNA setup, you can use the regular Roon player and the RoonCore can stream to back to your device or any other Roon Ready devices. I do this in my RV over Starlink and it works as if I’m at home where my RoonCore is located. This type of setup is complicated but will become integrated into the software and the Roon ARC app will likely go away with some further development. I’ve also never had RoonCore crash on me, with 256k tracks and 4TB of HiRez music.
I don’t now what Roon Radio is but I typically play music with my own playlists, by genre, or by connecting to my private Shoutcast streaming radio station. All of which is fully supported by Roon and works flawlessly. I can also listen to any Internet radio station including my favorite NPR and Jazz stations, and I don’t believe that PleX offers that capability.
In short, Roon is slick, works easily for the average user, and is entirely focused on playing music as perfectly as possible not just on mobile devices but on actual audio equipment from cheap Chromecast devices up to audiophile grade systems, with more and more integration each month. If PleX is trying to replace streaming apps with a central point to watch all your video content and streaming services, Roon is the same for audio, integrating your local hi-rez (lossless, DSD, MQA) content with online streaming stations, while supporting all levels of audio devices and multiroom audio.
Yes you do. Things should just refresh on their own also when the scheduled tasks run unless you’ve specifically disabled the periodic metadata refresh task.
This feature is also more suitable if you’re using your curated genres from embedded tags, although the cloud data we provide does offer some benefit in having genres per track.
So what does that mean exactly?
(Music) Store track genres and add filtering options (#14653)
Does it mean I now should see a new Genres section under Tags when I edit a track? Because I don’t… Nothing seems different, I only see the Moods section. I’m running 1.40.0.7775 and have refreshed all the metadata.
Edit:
I must be missing something, but I don’t know what. I guess I just don’t understand this new feature. Help?
Happy plex can now read multiple values for genre, etc in the ID3v2.4 format now!
Not to nag, (well, maybe a little) but Plex still only adds the genre of the first track of an album, so the complete album is tagged with that genre.
