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 …

Better music meta tagging with ID3

tom80H Archived September 3, 2021, 4:14pm 5

2021 clean-up: duplicate

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