I have searched for a solution to this, but nothing seems to be resolved concerning genres in Plex music libraries. Short story is that music collection has over 20 different genres but Plex can’t seem to find them all nor does it find every track that belongs in each genre that it does find. I’ve messed with the agents and whatnot and my searches all seem to suggest that this feature has been an issue for many years and hasn’t been resolved.
Is my assessment correct? If not, what is the solution to my issue?
Well, I see what the biggest issue is: Having artist selected to sort by and then genre. Switching to Album and then genre shows many more genres.
Guess I’ll move this to a wish list then: 1st. The sort bar needs to be shifted around. The first and second pull downs for sorting should be swapped since the first pull down is very dependent on the second…
2nd: Genre by track. There are many albums that do not fit neatly into 1 genre. Sure, you can tag them with multiple genres, but when I want to listen to just Christmas music and there happens to be 1 or 2 Christmas songs on a particular album, I don’t want the other songs on that album to play.
3rd: Plex should be automatically tagging artists with every genre attributed to them based on the tags in the tracks.
As a long time user of Media Monkey, I’ve gotten pretty spoiled as to the many ways I can find, sort and select various tracks.
I’m very close to sounding like a fanboy lately, but I’ve tried to use Plex for my music library for years. It just never does what I want it to, at least not very well.
If you’re only interested in the cataloging and basic, occasional playback of your music, Plex seems to be a fine choice for this.
However, if you’re like me, and you have a massive catalog, and use your music library quite heavily on a daily basis, prefer extremely granular control over your library, deeply integrated, relational metadata, enjoy Gracenote mixes and radio stations at the touch of a button (at any level: from genre, artist, album, track or playlist), finely tuned equalizer settings per stream, and the list goes on, then I highly recommend switching to Roon (https://roonlabs.com) for your music needs.
Oh and it has internet radio rss options baked right in as well as Tidal for streaming.
Sorry to derail your thread slightly, but reading these posts sent me back in time to when I was dealing with the daily frustrations of working within the confines of a tone deaf Plex, Inc. ecosystem. Then the clouds parted with Roon. Where I got personal, immediate support from Roon employees on the forum, and they actively seek out your feedback and value your contributions/suggestions in the community. It’s a business completely dedicated to sound, quality and their customers.
