I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the bug I reported with flac files way back in Oct of 2019 here: As far as I can tell from my test library, that glitch still exists.
I actually reported it earlier, but I can’t find that thread.
In a nutshell, Plex reads the embedded genre tags in flac files for an album and applies them, but does not update the artist with those tags. Refreshing the artist won’t have any affect either. It’s an odd bug, because ogg files work properly, and my understanding is that the both use the same format, VorbisComment, for embedded tags
Here’s screenshots of an example:
The album “Luck of the Draw” is in mp3 format, the album “Streetlights” is in flac format. The only genres shown for the artist, Bonnie Raitt, are from the mp3 files, even though Plex properly reads and displays the genres from the flac files. I would imagine if all of the files were in the flac format, the artist would not have any genres.
logs from the server immediately after I refreshed both albums, and then the artist.
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EDIT: at one time there was a problem with mp4/m4a files too. depending on the software used to create the tags, genres wouldn’t show up properly. The only album I have in m4a format in my test library will only show the first genre, even though all of the files have more than one genre according to MP3Tag.
