Refreshing the metadata should do the trick.
Based on my experience there can be some hiccups with inline artist videos. I got my inline videos on album level (which will still show as artist extras) while the artist level videos are stored in the Local music video path path.
I have tried refreshing the metadata to no avail, I’ve also tried the Plex dance just to be sure. Currently my videos are in a global location, but neither way seems to work.
This is how they go for them, I’ll just pick a random artist.
MUSIC
-Red Velvet
----[2014-08-04] Happiness [S]
--------Disc 1
------------1-01 Happiness.flac
MUSIC VIDEOS
-Red Velvet
----Happiness (2014)-video.mov
I’ve tried nesting the videos in another layer, but that doesn’t seem to help either. From what I understood (could be wrong), you could have them just in an artist folder to have them not associated with any album/song.
I take it Plex did scan/match that album? (kind of an adventurous naming )
Refreshing the metadata on your library should actually recognize the video and show it as extra to the artist (named “Happiness (2014)”).
Does that music video by any chance have some conflicting embedded metadata that might throw the local media asset agent off?
Yep, for albums I have Plex just matching the local metadata and everything works perfectly there. It’s strange because Plex was matching artists with their music videos awhile ago for me. I haven’t changed anything in the way the folder structure or metadata is set up.
I didn’t see anything that would be ruining the matching in the video metadata.
Have to keep things adventurous, never know when I want to just browse through Explorer lol
this has just happened to me and I think it’s a bug that relates to FLAC files and adding new music video’s.
I’ve never used the FLAC format, but decided to add a couple releases to an existing artist today. I was then updating the music video’s for that artist but whatever I did, new video’s would not show up. Also removing existing video’s from that artist would result in the video visually still being there after rescans/restarts etc but obviously not playing as it can’t be found. I was unable to add or remove any music video’s
So I thought it can’t possibly be because of the FLAC albums I just added, that would be so random and ridiculous. Low and behold it was.
I knew something was off because those same music video’s would show up when I popped them into other artists folders, which were all mp3.
Removing those FLAC releases made the new video’s show up.
So a quick way to troubleshoot is remove any FLAC albums from the artist folder (pretty easy if it’s just a couple or so), or pop the new music video’s into an artist folder which has no FLAC file formats…
either way, this is a bug on my Linux server. I’d never have figured this out if it weren’t for the fact I added a format I’d never used before just previous to the issue starting…
Such a strange bug, but that was it. Must be one of the more recent updates because the music videos were working perfectly fine with just FLAC albums a couple of months ago.
This seems to also cause artist-poster to not register.
Hopefully now that we know what the bug is the devs can fix it.
those kind of bugs can drive you crazy, so random I figured that out!
surprised they don’t know about it though (only found your post by searching the best I could), and must be cross platform as I’m on linux and mac osx…
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