Firstly, Plex takes artist name and album title from the folder name and secondly it uses these data to fetch another data from databases - by default. Perhaps, it is a good idea, to have ability to choose in the settings, how Plex grabs data: a) folder name - b) database OR a) ID3 embeded tags …

I have everything set to use/prefer local metadata (genres, artwork, etc) The scanner and agent are both set to Plex Music. It looks to me that Plex grabs any missing metadata (such as music styles, album reviews, artist bios, similar artists, etc) So far, I haven’t seen any music features that do …

I had it set up to prefer local metadata, and it’s still tagging damn near everything as “Various artists”

There’s already a feature request for this: https://forums.plex.tv/t/id3-tag-support-for-robust-music-library-organization/ And yes I agree, it’s 2020, we should be well past using pathnames/filenames as metadata. “Various Artists” compilations support in Plex is…somewhat problematic. For example,…

Better music meta tagging with ID3

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