# Changed Music Scanner, Metadata doesn't refresh

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/changed-music-scanner-metadata-doesnt-refresh/789553>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows, library-management\
**Created:** [April 22, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/changed-music-scanner-metadata-doesnt-refresh/789553 "2022-04-22T15:52:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![TheDaveAbides](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/thedaveabides/32/81831_2.png) [@TheDaveAbides](https://forums.plex.tv/u/TheDaveAbides)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/changed-music-scanner-metadata-doesnt-refresh/789553/1 "2022-04-22T15:52:50Z")

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Server Version#: 1.26.0.5715  
Player Version#: Various (up to date)

tl/dr: I have 2 music libraries pointing to the same folder using different Scanners. When the scanner/agent was changed, I expected them to match, but there was no change. Refresh Metadata not doing anything.

 ![Screenshot 2022-04-22 101056](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/c/f/2/cf2c9a93f2daff2c2c74f356b960b9898b5e00f6.jpeg)

Longer story: I know I had upgraded the music library scanner once (as it no longer is an option), but I discovered it had somehow reverted back as some functions in in Plexamp were unusable. I don’t think I reverted it back, as a handful of popularity data existed, but it’s possible. So I decided it was time to clean up the library’s tags, and I created a second music library to monitor the results using the upgraded scanner. Once I mostly cleaned up the tags, I changed the scanner/agent to the newer ones and refreshed the metadata. I expected the libraries to match, but they do not. You can see in the screenshot the number of artists differs, there’s different duplicates and fewer/different artwork. Digging further, the popularity data I was expecting to add has only been added on a handful more files.

Is there any other way to get the metadata to update w/o reverting to the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064)? I would like to not trigger another Sonic Analysis, as the data already exists on the old library, and I believe the dance will think those files are new. If there is no solution, I will just turn on the Sonic Analysis and let the server do that for a week.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/changed-music-scanner-metadata-doesnt-refresh/789553/2 "2022-07-21T15:53:18Z")

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