Hello. I wanted to suggest you to add album categories to Plex.
Example: The band Korn have a lot of side albums (Best Mixes, Unplugged and Live albums); Take a look here and i wanted to have it organized in sections like on that wiki.
Structure example:
Studio Albums
— Korn
— Life Is Peachy
Live Albums
— Live & Rare
— MTV Unplugged
Compilations
— Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
— Chopped, Screwed, Live and Unglued
etc.
I think it would be nice feature. Also in search it would appear as in each section
Edit: Sorry if i missed this feature but i looked for it and found nothing related.
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Plex doesn’t support Release Type/Album Type tags unfortunately. This field is stored in the MusicBrainz database and can be stored in mp3/flac embedded tags, so in theory it would be trivial to pull that info out during the matching process and use it, but so far the developers haven’t added it yet. I’d love it if they did though.
As far as I know none of the other music streaming servers (Navidrome, Airsonic, Subsonic, Emby, Jellyfin, Funkwhale, Apple Home Sharing, etc) use Release Type at the moment , although the main Navidrome developer is planning to add it, so I guess we wait for that. A few players of locally stored music like Kodi apparently support it now.
(Personally, I run both Plex and Navidrome in parallel: the clients for Plex are better and I like the artist bios and album reviews, but Navidrome can handle compilation albums better, and supports more metadata.)
Thanx for response! The next topic i would welcome is, as you said, artist bios.
Well, let’s say the band have more members and there’s nothing like “starring” from movies or series in music libraries. I would say it’s a shame i need to google members to see their bio, history or anything about them individually. I could continue with things that’s not implemented yet or can be better but i see plex team doesn’t keep eye on music zone as much as on movie/series/TV shows zone.
Music is indeed not as well developed as Movies and TV, but it’s pretty good I’d say.
The Plex developers have also painted themselves into a corner a bit with the current database structure, ten years ago it probably looked good enough, but at this point a lot of the cool music features that people would like are not possible without major internal changes, and it seems the developers are (understandably) hesitant to break something that currently works reasonably well.
