This is a request for comprehensive support of the ID3/Vorbis/etc. tags that are necessary for truly meaningful and complete organization of music libraries, both classical and popular. Here is what I hope will be a comprehensive list of the ID3 tags that are essential for digital music management …

I have releases that get put out on labels as an artist, tunes for tv that i get producer credit for,… it gets jumbled… i see why its difficult to come up with a standard. i like your idea,though. again with the lack of standard in media players and digital releases… its slowly getting better. plex …

I have read the entire thread (or let’s say fly over), i would really Like the fact If Plex would support “releasetype” from ID3 too. This way can display, albums under Albums as how is it now and Singles under the “Albums” Section of the page and EPs. Many artist have these three different release…

[image] JopoJP: This way can display, albums under Albums as how is it now and Singles under the “Albums” Section of the page and EPs. Many artist have these three different releasetypes. I definitely see the value of that. I have a few EPs and singles as well. Unfortunately there’s no such…

[image] beckfield: I definitely see the value of that. I have a few EPs and singles as well. Unfortunately there’s no such tag in the ID3 specification, so it would have to be a custom tag. ID3 need really something like that. If Plex would read out the custom tag “releasetype” all my music f…

This is one of the things you can use a freeform tag like iTunes’ Grouping tag for - but this is indeed not an explicit ID3 tag. Perhaps it can be scraped from last.fm, does it has a releasetype field in its API? Setting a release type manually is doable of course, but not for people with thousand…

This sounds great! Kinda the first thing i hear hear regarding ID3 progress.:slight_smile: Well, this could mean i could rescan my entire music libary and possibly most tags can be used. It depends of course what they implement. If they have an agreement with MetaBraniz hope are really up.I guess t…

Where did you see this information? Kinda exciting! Nvm, I found it =)

[image] beckfield: I definitely see the value of that. I have a few EPs and singles as well. Quick: I have my gallery sorted is sorted like that: (root_of_my_mounted_cloud)/Musik/(First Letter of an Albumartist)/(releasetype)/Albumname/songs.mp3 ▶ Directory Tree Example This could be anothe…

I would NOT want Plex to write to any of my ID3 tags. I’ve invested too many years in developing my ID3 tags beyond what music companies and distributors think is important. Plex’s player and understanding of tags seem too rudimentary. I would expect them to mess up my tags. Tags are getting mor…

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beckfield June 25, 2019, 7:35pm 75

MusicBrainz apparently has a ‘release group’ tag. With Plex’s recent agreement with MetaBrainz, this might be forthcoming.

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