You’re right it’s a good feature request. I just like my 4star and up filter so much it’s funny.
Since switching from Apple Music/iTunes, I really miss the feature of having a checkbox next to a track that I can simply click and it skips playback. There are certain tracks that get overplayed and I just don’t want to hear them anymore. Or commentary tracks or skits that I just don’t want to hear when I shuffle my library.
With iTunes, I was able to shuffle play my entire library without having to worry about setting up track-level or album-level tags, filters, or rating systems because I could simply click a checkbox. I could just hit play and listen to what I wanted without hearing a holiday album in the middle of May. On Plex, I can’t do that. Sure, I could set up a separate library - or libraries - but that’s pretty poor in terms of library management and organization.
Yes, there’s the possibility of doing a smart playlist. But I’m playing music right now and, guess what? The DJ selected a song outside of the playlist. So… guess that doesn’t work either.
A simple checkbox or menu item to disable a track would be awesome. A setting to ignore 1-star tracks in the settings menu would, effectively, do the same thing, but I do understand that not all people choose to use the 5-star rating system.
On Apple Music I always make sure my 1-2 star tracks are ‘unchecked’ so when listening to full albums I dont get stuck on particular bad or filler songs and keep the momentum going. I agree this would be a great feature, to always filter out the misses unless you manually want to select them.
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I’ve never used iTunes but even a “skip all marked tracks” kind of thing would be great as long as I could easily search for multiple traits at once (skit, commentary, holiday, 1 star, etc) and mark them all at once. Doing that once in a while as I add new files would be tolerable.
There are a lot of ways Plex could handle this, I hope they decide to move ahead with one of them.
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I rate some songs 1 star. Like The Rihanna album that is in acapella form; but is just an auto-tuned vocal without instruments (seriously, horrendous to listen to). PlexAmp’s desire to play these songs rated 1 star for some bizare reason makes me want to delete media from the server altogether for the first time ever. Really, I would delete the album, but I do like having it as an example of the worst album anyone can listen to.
I like how PlexAmp can play forever from without mixes without my intervention; but if it is rated 1 or 2 stars, it should almost absoutely never be played.
Maybe it doesn’t have to change the how mixes are created; just give me an option - auto skip all songs rated below X stars.
A setting, minimum rating to be included in radio and autoplay, would be very nice indeed.
And option to only include rated music when you wanna play it safe
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This is a very important feature - what’s the point of rating music if Plexamp mixes in your least favorite tracks.
I’m surprised it wasn’t in there from the outset.
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This would also give me a roundabout way to skip specific genres. (I never want to hear holiday music, skits, or interviews, which are often mixed into albums.)
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ok, but how do we do bulk 1-star ratings of tracks then? It’s not possible in Plexamp or PlexWeb… I have many albums where I need all the tracks to be marked as 1 star so they never get inserted into Radio, Artist Mix builder, etc.
I just read how a guy used AI to write a python script to get his M3U files converted to Plex playlists and also rate the tracks here Option to use existing m3u for playlist feature - #134 by lamely_lounges
Maybe there’s hope yet, like for Soundcloud/Qobuz integration into PlexAmp 
that’d be me. chatgpt, copilot, etc, make it quite doable to create synchronizations of data in and out of plex.
my 2 primary systems are plex and musicbee (it’s a Windows app, like iTunes).
Musicbee produces playlist files (I use the .m3u format).
Every Musicbee playlist creates a playlist files. I have general playlists, like “Rockin Out”, but I also have playlists for my ratings, like “1 Star Rating”, and I have playlists for my genres, like “Genre - Classic Rock”.
My 1st python script reads the directory of playlist files and creates a matching playlist in plex.
My 2nd python script produces a list of songs where the plex rating is different from the musicbee rating. (From here, I manually update musicbee tracks, as I consider musicbee to be the “source of truth”)
In progress: I’m working on a script for taming my musicbee genres. I want a fairly minimal set of specific genres that make sense to me. And I want these genres/playlists to be available in plex. It will compare musicbee artist genres and spotify artist genres, highlight the differences. I’ll do manual updates in musicbee that will then get pushed into plex.
At some point, I’m intending to share the scripts on github, but I need to clean up a bunch of mess before doing that. For instance, I don’t want to put my user name, password info on github for the world to see.
When you post the scripts to Github can you please DM me? I have having trouble having Plex grab my Musicbee .m3u playlist files. Thanks!
