Release Types for Music

Right now, the music library of Plex considers albums, live albums, compilations, soundtracks, EPs, etc. all identical entities and they are all just mixed together in chronological order.

I think it would be a nice feature to have release types actually separated within an artist’s page, where you’ve got:

Artist


Albums
{}{}{}
EPs
{}{}
Live Albums
{}

Etc.

Perhaps it could be triggered by either a checkbox for release type or search for release type in brackets after a title. For example, in my collection, every EP is labeled: Title [EP]

Just a thought, might make for more interesting browsing.

Example:

Came to the forum with exactly the same question.

I have also EPs, singles and remixes.

Maybe it’s possible to fetch metadata from Musicbrainz tag “releasetype” and sort it by this attribute?

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate