Trying to trick Plex to create music auto playlists

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#:1.21.2

I take my time curating my music catalog. I primarily use MediaMonkey as my player when on my computer and on my phone. Works great. Allows me to get my metadata just right. I use the comments field to put in a code to create an auto playlist - comment: driving music.

I know that metadata is problematic with Plex. I hate it. But would like to find a couple of fields to do the same on Plex that I do on Media Monkey. However, I can’t seem to map the fields.

Anyone do anything like this???

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Have you looked at Smart Playlists?

You could create a Smart Playlist based on Track Mood, for instance, then put “driving music” in the Mood field for any track you want. Any track you tag will automatically be added to the playlist.

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I agree, I just have had problems filling in those fields and having them show in Plex.

So this is crazy. I did a test. I put in test in mood. Created a filter and it worked. Great.
However when I go into track tags the mood is empty. So that is where I went wrong and trusted what I saw in Plex. Well I know how to go forward.

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So this gets more confusing.
I put in data in to the Genre, Styles, Moods, Country and Collection fields - within Plex.
I then looked up the MP3 in TagScanner. I can’t find the fields I just added.
I did the same with a Flac file - I could only find Mood.

Any idea how to edit these fields outside of Plex so I can do it easier than in Plex.

Thanks.

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Plex has always had a policy of never modifying your media files. Any tags you add within Plex is only added to Plex’s database. For editing tags, I prefer an app called Puddletag for linux-based systems. On Windows, MP3Tag is probably the most popular.

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Those Moods tags you can modify only exist in the internal Plex database, they are not written to the files. That is probably a good thing from a security point, you wouldn’t want an internet-facing server application being able to write/delete your media files.

In principle you can edit tags like Artist/Genre/Year in Tagscanner/MP3Tag/iTunes/beets/Picard/etc, and they’ll get refreshed when you do “refresh metadata”.

But (correct me if I’m wrong) Plex only retrieves Mood from Last.fm matching, not from embedded tags (MOOD in FLAC, TMOO in id3), so changing them in Tagscanner/etc won’t help.

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That didn’t occur to me, but you are correct.

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Thanks.
A very limiting and frustrating situation.

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