Just my two cent suggestion. Could this be added as a tag at the Track and Album level along with and just like the other tags?
Maybe just a simple “Don’t Play” tag. Maybe the user just has to tick a box or maybe the tag box only accepts the word “Play” or “Don’t Play”?
That’s all I got. I am not a programmer but I do know from experience that the simplest solution is usually the hardest one to get to.
I like the “Don’t Play” tag idea as well. This would be useful beyond just holiday music. I would like to use it for musicals and soundtracks as well (don’t really want random songs from Les Miserables showing up in the radios 
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Also some albums that I only ever want to play on their own, e.g. Tubular Bells, would benefit from this.
Same here. I have classical, and Jazz in my library. And it doesn’t make sense for that kind of music to pop up after Nirvana.
Also I know I have many compilation CDs. And I only listen to 2 or 3 songs off of those compilations. It would be nice to either tag an entire album as don’t play or just 2 or three tracks as Play.
I mean I am currently using the star ratings and rating all my unwanted plays as 1 star. Its working pretty good. I have noticed the 1 stars not getting plays. If the algorithm looks for star ratings and its working. Why not a tag that says play or don’t play and the algorithm checks for that tag?
I don’t know how any of this magic works. These Plex guys are wizards. I have all my music whenever I want it. Just brilliant.
Artists and albums have a collection field, which could be leveraged to use for exclusion. Ideally collection tags could be added to tracks level as well.
Then anything added to a specified collection could be excluded from any queue generator, so the only way to play would be for user to directly queue that content.
Why not just keep your Holiday music in its own library? I just delete and recreate the library with the passing of each holiday season. Seems easier than trying to add filters and smarts to the server.
I have not tried that. Worth a shot. So if I create a Classical music collection for example.
How do I hide that collection from the radio mixes? Is it the same as in the movie library? I just say hide collection in library and then the library radio mix won’t “see” the tracks in there?
I think it was a suggestion for how it might be done, rather than something you can do right now.
Lol. Yeah. My bad. I thought it was a solution. I’m gonna try it anyway. Lol
I think if you exclude the library from the Home Screen and global search it won’t show in Plex Amp.
My suggestion was for more transient much (holiday) where I literally leave it off my sever for 11 months of the year.
I think that putting a low rating to something prevents it from being included in radios. This can be a solution to this, no? Just rate all your holiday music as 1 star and then just play them manually when the time comes?
I’m starting to think creating a whole new library with just Holiday/Christmas music is the way for me. I think I will end up doing the same with my classical and jazz music.
I have been rating things in my library to help the shuffle pretty consistently. It’s becoming a bit tedious. In my case, my family listens to music and rates the music based on how much they like it. I am rating music based on how Plex uses the ratings in the shuffle/radios.
It shouldn’t have to be like that. A 1 star means I don’t like it. I like some Christmas songs and I don’t like others. I would like to rate my songs based on how much I like them, and not based on how it affects the shuffle algorithm.
Anyway, I also want it to be easy for my kids and wife to find the music they want to listen to. The simplest cleanest is for me to say to them if you want to listen to Christmas songs, click on the “Christmas Music” library. That way they can hit shuffle/radio and I know they will get all Christmas songs.
This is the problem with almost all music apps. Isolating music based on so many factors. Time of year, mood, style, feeling. Because its not a hard number and music deals with emotions its very hard to get right.
I still don’t know why there isn’t a simple classification or algorithm that checks what time of year it is. If its November / December, the shuffle / radio should look at a database of Holiday songs, and then look at your library and inject those into the mix. When you are outside of these months then don’t play any of the songs on the holiday music list.
Am I just oversimplifying things?
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