Cannot remove items from Music Library

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New user here. Just set up my Plex server on Ubuntu and it is working well. I have added a number of my own albums and have indexed them the way I want to see them, but after stepping away for a bit while transferring additional files to the media directory, I found additional music had been added to my music directory that I do not own nor did I add. I reviewed the server settings and found the setting " Advertise as player-Allow other Plex apps to fling content to this device and control it remotely."

I suspect this is the cause of the additional music added to my library, but I want to remove the albums/artists/songs but get an error when I try to remove them. Being new to Plex I thought I was doing something incorrectly, but don’t seem to see any other method of removal. I have tried the Optimize database and clean bundles options, but no luck. Suggestions?

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This setting is for the integrated client software. It has nothing to do with your server and your music library.

Each item in a Plex library has a context menu. (Under a vertical ellipsis)
Where you can see to which file on disc the item is connected. This should make it clear if this is perhaps a “mismatch” or if you inadvertently included more parts of your hard disc into the library than intended.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201998867-investigate-media-information-and-formats/

(With music, the ellipsis is showing up if you mouse-over the track title, right at the end of the line.)

Please post a screenshot of the rogue music. Complete screen please.

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