Playlist With Songs From Separate Libraries

[PhantomDemogorgon]

Server Version#: Plex 1.41.8.9834
Player Version#: PlexAmp v4.12.4

I have two separate audio libraries, one for game/show OSTs and one for “regular” music. I normally make my playlists based on track rating, for instance, songs rated 3.5 stars or higher. Currently, it seems like there isn’t a way to add songs from both libraries to a single playlist.

I know it’s possible to search across libraries and then make a smart playlist from that search, but that only works if searching by track/artist/album name, not any specific metadata like rating, decade, etc. Am I wrong about this?

Is there any way to make a playlist filtering by user rating that will span both libraries?

[tom80H]

@PhantomDemogorgon

I know it’s possible to search across libraries and then make a smart playlist from that search

No, that’s not a thing (not in Plexamp or the web app). You can only manually add individual search result items to a classic playlist (non-smart).

@PhantomDemogorgon

Is there any way to make a playlist filtering by user rating that will span both libraries?

No, smart playlists/collections are always linked to their library.

There’s a feature suggestion to support this, but that hasn’t gained super much attention.

[Feature Request] Allow Filtering and Smart Playlists Across Multiple Libraries // mod: also applies to smart collections

Currently, we can only create smart playlists within a single library at a time. For those of us with more extensive setups, we may have multiple libraries of the same type (movies, TV, etc). It would be great to allow for us to create smart playlists that include content from multiple libraries! For example: If I want to create a “Holiday Specials” playlist, I must currently do so manually. This is because there are TV episodes, movies and cartoons which all fit this description, and all 3 of …

[PhantomDemogorgon]

Just left a comment over there, thanks for pointing it out!