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Where does Plex get the metadata for the information used to create the smart playlist. When I enter a mood in the metadata from windows 10 or a 3rd party metadata program it does not pull into Plex in that category. Tags like the collection tag do not even exist in other metadata programs. I have several auto playlists that were created in Winamp using the “comments” tag available in my metadata, but this tag is not available in Plex. I need a way to create playlist from a line in the metadata that I can filter by “contains” and a easy way to update thousands of files. Is this even possible with Plex?
Plex’ is mostly using metadata from online sources.
With music you can configure your library to go with embedded metadata – however if you change the metadata that’s embedded in your songs, Plex will not automatically recognize this change and you might need to update the metadata for that library / artist / album / title.
That being said… I believe there’s been a remark that Plex does not use all metadata you might have embedded in your files. The Comments tag is one of those Plex definitely does not deal with – not sure about mood, style etc.
Hi and thank you so much for taking the time to assist. Let me explain what I have… I have several playlist with names like “House Party”, “Quiet Storm”, etc. Some songs fall into one playlist, some fall into multiple. That makes the “contains” filter imperative. Do you know what metadata field I can update that Plex will read and can be filtered by contains?
You can do a log of multi-value, additive etc. filters based on the files available. That does not change the scope of fields available to filtering nor where/how they get their data from.
What you have in mind is probably not possible with Plex at this stage.
Custom filters currently support the following fields – I’ve flagged the ones that are editable from within Plex (I cannot tell for sure if that data will also be pulled from embedded metadata tags)
Not sure it’s that kind of black & white situation. It’s certainly no 1:1 match for how you can use / setup / structure your smart playlists in iTunes… there’s still ways to achieve what you have described.
Let me preface this with in no way is it meant to be directly aimed at you. I do appreciate all the help you have and are attempting to give, but by the end of this I can get a little ranty.
I cannot figure out a way. Not without going in and adding a tag to a title or artist name (which will then mess up my tracks for every other media client I use)… Attempting to do it by rating would not work because it would only allow a song to be in one list and not multiple (and there is only 5 or 6 ratings limiting my number of playlists). The only thing I see is to manually go in and adjust a tag like “collection”, but to manually go in and adjust that tag in Plex on over 10000 tracks… Yeah that’s not happening…
The issue I have with Plex is the restraints that it puts on the user. A person’s choices in entertainment are very specific to that person, not what one industry attempts to place on them . What one person may see as horror another may see as dark comedy. What one person may see as spiritual and upbeat music another may see as simply hard rock or rap. Instead of just using information that Plex can scrape online, it should also look at all metadata tags and XML files. It should not attempt to force me into a structure that is not conducive for me. And if it does, at the very least they should provide ways to quickly change the filing structure that one already has and create metadata editors that would allow a user to adjust the tags that Plex can see. Most people who are using media servers already have media structured to fit the server they have. If you want people to switch over to Plex, then you need to make it easy for them not more difficult.
I have used Plex for years, and I really like it, but I have a lot of issues with the constraints it puts on me. So I am forced to have and use multiple servers and programs. In the end that does not benefit me or Plex.
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