At the beginning of my Plex music journey, I solved this by deciding not to include any Christmas music in my library with the exception of Enya’s “And Winter Came…” and I don’t mind that showing up in my sonic adventures.
Lol I see what you mean. On Mac and Linux files and directories that start with a dot “.” are hidden. In Windows, if you want to hide something you have to apply the “Hidden” attribute by right clicking and going to add in the “Properties…” dialog.
To avoid surprises I always show hidden files and folders on Windows. On linux you can press Ctrl+H and it toggles showing hidden files. This way, you’ll always see the .plexignore file if you open the folder. I don’t use a Mac so I don’t know if this works there as well.
I think it has to do with your “Empty trash automatically after every scan” setting. Re-adding stuff with this on will make is see it as new content and forget play history. Otherwise, the data is kept around and when you add it back it will remember that it’s seen it before so it won’y be recognized as new content and your play history will be restored.
adding my voice to this too - not really christmas related, but very similar:
new to plexamp but not plex. Recently have been testing plexamp to move my music library into the plex ecosystem.
I really love the concept of sonic adventure, artist radios etc. however, as an electronic music fan/bedroom DJ my library also has an extensive collection of DJ mixes, acapellas, etc. These are all identified with the Genre set accordingly. However, dj mixes and acapellas often get included in the auto-generated playlists, which is undesirable, since I am really only looking to listen to single tracks.
My acapellas are all labeled to the “DJ Tools” genre and Sets are “Live Set”, so adding a filter to not include this genre in any of these playlists as well as anywhere things automatically play would also be awesome.
I would LOVE this feature to be included as its not really practical for me to break these out into separate libraries as I have almost 10k tracks, all in ARTIST > ALBUM > TRACK.flac naming convention, these are already cataloged in a database thats shared across multiple music systems, apps, DAWs, DJ Softwares, so changing the folder structure so these could live in a separate library would necessitate me manually having to remap files to new paths across ~5 apps and would be a dealbreaker.
Other than that, plexamp has really been cool and I’ve been enjoying it, thank you for the hard work and your consideration
@elan Putting genre at the track level solves this simply and elegantly…especially for those of us who tagged our music carefully. It’s never been clear why plex aggregated all the track genre tags up to the album level where they no longer make clear sense.
Play radio within an artist is something I’ve always liked the idea of but its eventually ruined after just a few songs. Using radio stations are a candy-cane minefield when it comes to christmas music.
Is there a feature request to at least have album genre = christmas music be excluded from radio stations ? Even an advanced hidden setting to have all christmas music excluded. That would solve 95% of the problem and would a better solution than we have today.
The suggestion of moving christmas music to its own library is just a lazy answer. While it would work its an awful suggestion.
I re-tagged my christmas albums to only have Christmas or Holiday tags and nothing else. So far I haven’t had any Christmas songs or albums come up when choosing a radio station. Not saying this is the cure all, but so far it has worked.
Do you mean a specific artist’s radio? If so then I imagine it would end up playing the artists christmas songs since that album is under that artist. I was referring to Style or Mood radio. I’m sorry that I didn’t make that clear in my earlier post. Those are the radio stations my family uses most often. I will also do artist’s mixes recommended, but I would suspect that that artist’s chrismas songs will eventually appear since they have a christmas album.
This is just my work-a-round until a permanent solution comes into play.
Sure, I get that style or mood radio will help a little. Still just wish I could exclude a specific genre type (Christmas Music in this case) from radios.
For context, I’ve just short of 6,000 albums in plex, which is still growing with 154 having the Christmas Music genre assigned. Selecting library radio gives me a christmas song in under 10 tracks.
That’s a lot of Christmas music.
All my christmas albums have the genre tag of 
