@“joslin.joel@gmail.com” said:
Plex really needs a “Composer” tag, which I believe is already included in modern file tags anyway. This is essential for classical, but actually quite useful for any genre because of cover songs. Most every modern media player has this, even Windows Media. A “Conductor” tag would be nice, though less essential.Better support for additional contributing artists would be good too, as Sprongfeld alluded to.
Yeah, agreed with these.
@elan said:
@“joslin.joel@gmail.com” said:
Plex really needs a “Composer” tag, which I believe is already included in modern file tags anyway. This is essential for classical, but actually quite useful for any genre because of cover songs. Most every modern media player has this, even Windows Media. A “Conductor” tag would be nice, though less essential.Better support for additional contributing artists would be good too, as Sprongfeld alluded to.
Yeah, agreed with these.
This is a little more ambitious than some of the other suggestions, but it would be great if we could tag multiple “Additional Artists” similar to genres. That way we can mark Kind of Blue as a Bill Evans and John Coltrane album, or tag The Highwaymen as a Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard (et al) album.
@elan said:
@Sprongfeld said:
Hey Elan, I’ve send you a DM with one of the tracks from the screenshot I’d posted; properly tagged with embedded 1000x1000 pix album artwork in jpeg format. Plex won’t even acknowledge that there’s custom artwork in the file when I try to manually edit the tracks.And I replied, since the track worked perfectly for me in Plex extracting that artwork. I’ll need more input from you on what could possibly be different about your setup.
- fixing LMA
As I explained, I’ll need further input from you, since it’s working over here.
Based on your own tests, it doesn’t seem like it’s actually working for you…? Your setup is able to see the embedded artwork, but ignores it; it seems like you have to go in and manually select it, unless I’m missing something…? I was under the impression that setting up Plex to prefer LMA would force Plex to use the embedded file assets (like cover art); it’s not super helpful if I have to manually change the covers for thousands of albums.
- add ability to sort by Album > Artist
I assume you mean by track artist, as we discussed before.
No, I mean Album > Artist; like the existing All > Album > Album Artist, but using the Artist tag data instead of Album Artist tag data
- fix alphabetical sorting – why is ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ listed under “T”, and ‘A Perfect Circle’ under “P”?
This is a feature; if you don’t don’t like it, you can edit the
Sort Titleand change how the sorting works.
How does this feature work? Is there a global setting for each library? Near as I can tell, what you’re suggesting is that I manually edit the info of every album I own in order to get it to sort in a proper alphabetical fashion?
- in sort by Album, have albums appear in chronological order. The PlexPass “Premium” music library is supposed to scrape extra metadata for everything; surely it scrapes album release dates?
That sounds like a good suggestion, I’ll file it internally.
- have ‘Various Artists’ albums sorted into the mix alphabetically in Album sorting view. As an example, the list would show Andrew Bird > Blade 2 OST > Charli XCX. This is admittedly a tougher ask, since it’d involve some sort of code that would force Plex to sort anything tagged with “Various Artists” by “Album Title” instead…
Yeah, that is tougher for sure; you can customize sort order for each artist already when you’re viewing their albums (edit ⇢ advanced) but it’s harder in a single grid view.
fix alphabetical sorting – why is ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ listed under “T”, and ‘A Perfect Circle’ under “P”?
FWIW, I like this behavior. 
Okay, more basic things that Plex needs:
These things would be nice but not essential:
If any of these are already in and I missed them let me know.
@chucksense said:
fix alphabetical sorting – why is ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ listed under “T”, and ‘A Perfect Circle’ under “P”?
FWIW, I like this behavior.
To each his own! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It doesn’t make any sense to me, personally; the band is named “The Strokes”, not “Strokes”…
Any progress on creating decent sorting options for music collections? This is a feature that people have been asking for for literally years, now. I get that development takes time, but I’d argue that creating more useful sorting options would benefit far more users than, say, adding news features to Plex. Being able to access and manage thousands of albums in Plex is kind of meaningless if everything turns into a big, chaotic garbage dump once it’s added to the library.
@Sprongfeld ~ you can set the sort title to be The Strokes and customize exactly how the ordering is performed.
@jwjoslin ~ that’s a good list, at least some of them are filled internally and/or long-running wishes of mine 
Any chance on a plexamp app for iOS & watchOS @elan?
@elan Better support for classical music would be amazing too. I think that might be as simple as support for Composer -> Composition -> Movement, at least in the beginning.
@bretswinney said:
Any chance on a plexamp app for iOS & watchOS @elan?
What you’ll see is some Plexamp awesomeness moving to the mobile apps to make them better for music (which I think is really what the root desire is?)
@gcoates said:
Better support for classical music would be amazing too. I think that might be as simple as support for Composer → Composition → Movement, at least in the beginning.
Yeah, agreed.
@elan said:
@jwjoslin ~ that’s a good list, at least some of them are filled internally and/or long-running wishes of mine
Can you tell us any that may be coming soon?
@elan said:
@Sprongfeld ~ you can set the sort title to beThe Strokesand customize exactly how the ordering is performed.
Yes, but unless I’m mistaken, that’s a manual process. No offense, but for obvious reasons, I’m not super keen on having to go in and manually edit the album info for literally hundreds of albums just to get my music collection to sort properly.
I know it probably sounds like I’m being a d!ck about this, but really all we’re asking for are basic QoL enhancements; Plex doesn’t need to be completely re-engineered, we’re just looking to add add better, more intuitive sorting and management options for music/audio libraries — options that have been pretty standard in other music apps for ages. It’s pretty disheartening to see that you’ve dumped a pile of time into building, say, Plex VR, but can’t dedicate a handful of man-hours into adding a bit of functionality into the music side of things. Arguably, quality of life enhancements and bug-fixes for music libraries will benefit far more Plex users than something flashy and complex, but niche, like Plex VR.
@Sprongfeld said:
I know it probably sounds like I’m being a d!ck about this, but really all we’re asking for are basic QoL enhancements; Plex doesn’t need to be completely re-engineered, we’re just looking to add add better, more intuitive sorting and management options for music/audio libraries — options that have been pretty standard in other music apps for ages. It’s pretty disheartening to see that you’ve dumped a pile of time into building, say, Plex VR, but can’t dedicate a handful of man-hours into adding a bit of functionality into the music side of things. Arguably, quality of life enhancements and bug-fixes for music libraries will benefit far more Plex users than something flashy and complex, but niche, like Plex VR.
I would argue that playback (gapless, transcoding that actually works on android) needs to happen first. If I bust my data plan with 1 album because Plex “forgets” to transcode my FLAC files, the rest is kind of worthless.
@elan said:
@bretswinney said:
Any chance on a plexamp app for iOS & watchOS @elan?What you’ll see is some Plexamp awesomeness moving to the mobile apps to make them better for music (which I think is really what the root desire is?)
While I do look forward to music improvements, I would also like to see a stand alone mobile app for music/audio libraries. I think listening is a very different experience than watching. Though listening certainly can be active, often it’s more passive and you want to find the track/album/playlist quickly, so you can get on with other activities. I would add, that’s probably why Apple has separate built in media apps, and not mobile iTunes, which of course is hated for bloat.
This is one of many threads asking for improved support of embedded ID3/Vorbis tags.
Since all votes were lost with the new forum changeover, I have taken the opportunity to rework one of my ID3 tag feature requests into a more comprehensive request for tag support.
This would be a great opportunity to consolidate all the votes that were spread across so many threads before, and maybe get some much-needed attention. And now, everyone can vote!
Hey Plex, crew! Any movement on this? It’s been literally YEARS, and music management is still awful in Plex. For the love of all things holy, we’ve gotten friggin’ VR implementation of Plex (that almost nobody uses), but Plex for music is still limping along. Tons of great suggestions in this thread, and AFAIK, not a single one has been implemented, yet? Not even a fix to the totally broken LMA problem. Plex is still inexplicably pulling hilariously low rez album artwork from, like, old Geocities pages, I assume, rather than using the high-quality embedded artwork in the .mp3 files (or the separate high-quality cover.jpg and/or folder.jpg files that sit in the album folder). What gives, Plex?
