I discovered that some musicians have a biography of another person. The first was Ludvig van Bethoven, updated from the Gracenote data of premium lib. The second case is Gustav Mahler. I tried to re-match and checked that Allmusic have the correct bio. The issue is related to new Plex agent. Actual…

It’s only on “Classical” music (as far as I can see). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is another example. No matter how many times you “Fix Match,” “UnMatch” or Plex Dance the artist and/or albums you get the same bio, obviously for “Iona Brown” You can even select her photo as the poster if you want. It…

Yeah, I think the recent changes in the music scanner improved things immensely for popular music, but classical came off worse than before.

There’s a feature suggestion for better metadata support somewhere… Oh wait… never mind. :grin:

:thinking: Hmmm… [image] Tag support for ROBUST music library organization Feature Suggestions This is a request for comprehensive support of the ID3/Vorbis/etc. tags that are necessary for truly meaningful and complete organization of music libraries, both classical and …

Yes, new added persons are affected too. +1 Richard Wagner

[BUG] Wrong artists bio

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

beckfield November 16, 2019, 11:29pm 5

Hmmm…

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[BUG] Wrong artists bio

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