Plexamp: use partial server path in smart playlists

[plxstrm]

I’d like to create some smart playlists that represent folders on the server because I add and remove files from the folders.

Can we use path in smart playlists? Supporting partial path or wildcards would be even nicer, e.g. foo/**/flac/**/bar/

[tom80H]

Plexamp (and Plex in general) focus on organizing your media by metadata, not so much the file/folder structure (except when it comes to initially cataloging/matching your media)… hence there’s no filter for that available.

There’s a long standing suggestion to allow filtering by file names or parts of a file path.

Feature Request: File Path filter // Automatic dynamic Full Pathname tags & associated Filter

We have other requests that are similar to this but not the same. What I would like is to have a class of user tags for all media files that would be dynamically and automatically created based on the full pathname of the media object and to add a filter option for selecting these dynamic tags in all the players. So every path name Text for a media object and it is the full path including folder and all nested sub folder names and file names, plex media server would break up into discrete wor…

[plxstrm]

I think we all understand metadata but still want path/filename as another piece of metadata. Given that the original feature has been opened for 10+ years, I have no hope that we’ll ever see it implemented

@elan can we please make it happen? thank you.

[elan]

The server doesn’t provide those APIs, so would take a fair bit of work, and you’re the only one I remember asking for it

[plxstrm]

I’m not the only one, Plex in general I think should support path as metadata.

Feature Request: File Path filter // Automatic dynamic Full Pathname tags & associated Filter

We have other requests that are similar to this but not the same. What I would like is to have a class of user tags for all media files that would be dynamically and automatically created based on the full pathname of the media object and to add a filter option for selecting these dynamic tags in all the players. So every path name Text for a media object and it is the full path including folder and all nested sub folder names and file names, plex media server would break up into discrete wor…

[plxstrm]

@elan Symfonium can make a smart playlist with a “Path and file” filter from a PMS provider. Why can’t Plexamp do whatever Symfonium does?

[elan]

i don’t know what the app is doing. you can filter on a folder specifically, but i don’t think thats what you’re asking for.

[plxstrm]

I would like to combine a folder filter with other filters in a smart playlist, e.g. only flac with a rating > 3 in some folder (and subfolders).

[elan]

it’s the “and subfolders” which the server doesn’t do, afaik. but who organizes music in folders these days? it’s way better to use metadata.

[plxstrm]

but who organizes music in folders these days?

There are some old/dumb devices that only work with folders and m3u playlists, e.g. USB flash drives in cars.

[plxstrm]

Interesting, I created a playlist in Plexamp that uses “Track Codec”, it shows up in the PMS server but I can’t edit it via the web interface, it just crashes. I assume because it doesn’t understand the codec filter, I don’t see it in the web interface if I try to create the playlist there.