Previously I built 2 smart playlists for my Music Library: 1 has all music rated 4 or 5 star; another has all music rated 3,4, 5, or unrated (so basically everything except 1 & 2 star ratings).
So I finally bit the bullet and bought a lifetime Plex Pass; then spent the last 3 days cleaning up and bringing all my Christmas music collection (1000+ tracks) into a new Plex music library called “Christmas Music”. I then went to build the same smart playlists that I have for my other Music library…but for the life of me can’t figure out how to build a list that is everything except 1 & 2 starred tracks! It seems the option to build Custom Filters based on more than one Track Rating or to use an ‘OR’ condition for multiple selections is gone! I know in Movie libraries you can select multiple “Content Ratings” to build a Custom view…but I can’t find how to multi-select Track Ratings in Music libraries…and yet somehow I managed to build the same Smart Playlists in the past with my general Music library.
Am I just missing something? Or has that capability been removed? Can someone tell me how to build a Smart Playlist of everything in a Music library that is not 1 or 2 stars? (so: ‘is greater than 2’ OR ‘is empty’).
Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, when I use those three criteria, I get no matches at all.
One would think if I just used the first two criteria:
Track Rating is not 1 star
Track Rating is not 2 stars
then I would get exactly what I want: everything that is 3,4,5 stars, along with everything that has not yet been rated. However, when I use those two criteria, I only get the same thing as I would with ‘Track Rating > 2 stars’; that is, I get 3,4 & 5 star tracks, but I don’t get any of the unrated tracks. Again, I want to be able shuffle play everything that does not have a 1 or 2 star rating.
In my main Music library, I have about 5,700 tracks. Of those currently:,
79 are 1 star
116 are 2 star
106 are 3 star
74 are 4 star
21 are 5 star
5300 are unrated (I have a lot of rating still to do!)
If I set a custom filter of:
Track Rating is not 1 star
I get 317 results. So by using an “‘is not’ # of stars”, it immediately excludes all unrated tracks from the filter. I don’t know if this behavior has changed somewhere along the line? Because my original smart playlist from several months ago, “Music: 3+ & unrated” still works. But I can’t seem to build a new smart playlist with the same criteria.
It was the ability to build that particular smart playlist that finally sold me on Plex; but now it seems, something has changed, and even though my previously built playlist still works as intended, I can’t build another one.
When you set a criteria of something like Track Rating is not 1 star, shouldn’t it give you everything that is not 1 star rated, including tracks that have no rating?
Plus of course my own logic from above as incorrect.
I remember having seen a discussion that the current custom filter only considers rated tracks if you start filtering by track rating (so the moment you limit to a certain rating or exclude certain ratings, empty ratings are excluded from your result list).
Thanks tom80H. Does that seem strange, that excluding a star rating would also exclude empty ratings ? Do you know if that is something that has changed? Or a bug in a recent version?
I wish I could recall how I set up my original Smart Playlist to do this, since it still works. Any way to view the settings on an already existing Smart Playlist?
Is this an issue to report directly to Plex developers? And if so, how? (sorry so many questions–still brand new as a lifetime pass holder)
