I’m curious. I had never created a smart playlist based on track moods, but I would imagine those playlists are now broken for the most part. Maybe the tracks from the old list will still be in the playlist, but no new ones can auto-magically be added as your library grows.
What the heck, why did you remove moods filtering for tracks.??? That’s the whole reason I pay the monthly subscription because I have a massively large music library and I created dozens of playlist off of the moods, now you jacked it all up. Makes no sense why you remove this I am not happy and I think I will reconsider my subscription now
I have swapped private messages with Elan from Plex. He says that track-based mood tagging is coming back.
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I hope that the track based moods are downloaded from somewhere. I have never added a “mood” for a track, simply relied on the data Plex added. Not sure I want to manually edit “moods” or “styles” for individual tracks. It just worked before, no fuss, no muss.
Great news. Thanks for letting us know Mav.
Elan also said that they will eventually bring back a metadata source for moods.
It would be nice if plex respected any existing TAGS for mood in the files.
Looks like the latest beta reads track moods. I’m not sure if that also means it displays them and allows you to edit them.
Thanks @mavickers for the update, but I’m done (and am canceling my account and Plex Pass). Like @iSteeb and some of the rest of you, I have a massive music collection, and since playlists aren’t shareable, I was depending on the track moods for this–which I edited manually until they removed that functionality. Over the past few weeks, I’ve moved everything onto another platform (Subsonic) which doesn’t look as good as Plex and has a couple other issues, but which has shareable playlists which I can edit and even back up and re-upload. Everything now works as well as it did with Plex (better, in fact, since playlists are available on the mobile app–unlike filtering by the track moods, which was never available on the Plex mobile app).
Moving everything over was definitely painful, but I’m confident that Subsonic isn’t going to cancel a key functionality like Plex did–at least without consulting its customers first. Even if Plex brings this functionality back, I wouldn’t trust them to not do it again.
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Fortunately my library is also accessible via subsonic subsonic was the first platform I use before I moved over to Plex. Actually they’re both sharing the same library‘s. I’m still using Plex for my movie collection, but the compelling reason I did the subscription was for the music now my library is pretty much worthless via Plex. There are no relevant playlist TV and create it’s a garbage mess now again. That was a bad call if it was your call to remove Gracenote. Or maybe they dropped you I don’t know but the point is the music is now worthless without the moods function
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Word, I was very unhappy about the removal of mood editing and the fact that it was done under cover of night. I am still running the last Plex server version that allowed mood editing and will until the functionality is restored.
Subsonic looks interesting, I’ll have to check that out sometime. As it stands I also have a large library, some 30k+ tracks and almost 200gb. Changing to a different platform would be at least a weekend project.
I’m not sure exactly what you were trying to accomplish on the mobile app, but I create a filter on moods on the desktop app then stuff that into a playlist. The playlist automatically updates when I add tracks to that mood, which shows up on the mobile app.
Man, I am with you. I know it’s painful moving everything and loose a lot of work on the library. It’s just incredible to see how the Plex team is ignoring complaints and cancelling easily certain functions that many people rely on. Instead they are wasting resources on Plex VR - what a nonsense feature.
Anyway, I only can recommend anyone, once you found your perfect setup - just stop updating and never touch a running system.
wtf plex
I have swapped private messages with Elan from Plex. He says that track-based mood tagging is coming back.
Does anyone know if this was added back yet? I’m still on v1.16.3.1433. Thanks!
It is back in the web client. The desktop app does not have it.
I don’t think you can actually edit the track moods in the web client. In fact, you can’t even see the track moods unless you view the XML for a track. As far as I can tell, if the track has moods assigned to it (and a lot do not), they are downloaded from somewhere.
You can edit moods for an album or artist. I don’t know how that would affect the downloaded moods that an individual track might have assigned to it if you did decide to edit them.
Hmmm so it looks like I should clarify what I meant. I should have said “web app” rather than “web client”.
I’m referring to the app that runs on my machine that displays the web interface directly from my server. It uses the older interface with the smaller icons/text in the nav column on the left.
The desktop app (which I think has the interface baked in) does not have the track mood editor, nor does the app.plex.tv interface (which is probably properly referred to as the web client).
Looks like if I browse the web interface directly on the server the track mood editor is not available there either.
So weird. So it appears one can only edit the track mood if they are using the web app installed on their machine, an app that is sort of in sunset?
LOL - I have no idea what web app you have installed that lets you edit moods, cause all I have is the local web interface or app.plex.tv
I’m probably never going to edit track moods anyways, and the only reason they are a concern to me at all is because I think “Plex Mix” used the track moods to auto-generate a play list. If that feature returns, the track moods may be important for some.
