Hi, I’ve been trying out the new PlexAmp, and it’s a very beautiful thing, but I’m a bit taken aback that there’s no way to view by composer (well, you can search, but you can’t browse). This renders it pretty much useless for classical music, and seems an odd omission given the years (and years) t…

Plexamp is still a Plex client. It can only work with what is on the Plex server. And ‘composer’ is unfortunately not stored on the server. Plexamp tries to introduce a different approach to music. My advice: Stop browsing and instead start using all the radios, the mix builder, and maybe create s…

Well, ‘composer’ is stored in my files’ metadata, so it is stored on the server. Whether Plex uses it is another matter. Anyway, it seems clear that you have a very specific idea about how Plexamp should be used, which is great for some kinds of music but not all.

I did add my name to a similar thread in… good lord, September 2017. Might as well try this one too I suppose. Maybe if the Plex people could outline what they think a music server/player should (and should not) be doing, we could all save ourselves a lot of time and frustration. It’s still great …

totally realize we’re not there yet (!) for classical music.

This is clearly an issue which is stopping me moving to Plex Premium. Even open source media players such as Kodi have now better support for Classical Music than Plex (but still not ideal). This topic has been going on for years, and it seems to be at a complete standstill. At some point I’ll ju…

Good points. What’s ironic is that for music, I’m currently using a combination of the Asset UPnP server and the foobar2000 mobile client. Asset lets me specify pretty much whatever browsing tree I want. And UPnP isn’t exactly state-of-the-art…

Celebrating five years of that feature request sitting in the wilderness. I actually came to Plex because of Sonos’ deficiencies in managing large libraries, but I’ve swapped one problem for another. The Classical section of my music collection is by far the largest and most complex, and lack of ev…

[image] elan: totally realize we’re not there yet (!) for classical music. @elan Would you be able to detail your plans to fill this gap?

not at the moment, sorry, only because i don’t have anything concrete to share. but we’ve talked about it lots and definitely have some list items to work on.

PlexAmp: composer?

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beckfield June 3, 2020, 2:51pm 4

One of many shortfalls in Plex’s metadata support. You might want to add your vote and comments to this feature request.

Topic		Replies	Views
Browse by Composer General Discussions	34	638	December 20, 2019
Feature Request: Composer Field General Discussions	85	3259	March 8, 2021
[Feature Request] Classical Music General Discussions	22	964	January 7, 2020
By Composer Feature Suggestions library-management	85	2532	February 15, 2026
Would pay extra for better Plexamp Plex Labs plexamp	9	457	June 4, 2024

PlexAmp: composer?

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