Does Plex Update Music Metadata / ID3 tags?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Not sure if this has been previously answered, but I couldn’t find the answer in the forum…

I’ve used Plex for movies for many years and thought I’d experiment with Plex Music.

I have a large Music library that I’ve spent (as I’m sure many have) many many hrs updating metadata / ID3s and images to get it as close to perfect as possible.

If I create a Music library in Plex using my source (master) music library and files, does Plex change the files in any way? Does it update any of the source file tags or change names etc?

Concerned that it will overwrite my many hours of hard work spent on getting my library correct for other players / platforms! If this is the case I’ll create duplicate library specially for Plex… but this obviously takes more HD space and library admin.

Any help would be appreciated!

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It does not, it will read what is currently there and any updates you make within Plex are to the Plex database and not directly to the file itself

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You could use this great python scripts. Need some understanding of what you are doing but it works fine for me.

A few hints:

  • newest 3.x Python
  • you need MediaMonkey 4 as “middleware” to write/read the tags
  • your metadata needs to be impecable (at the moment Plex seems to have a problem with unmatched albums losing titles)

The script can sync from id3 tags to Plex Server or the other way around.

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This is what I was hoping. Thanks for confirmation, much appreciated - will give it a go.

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