Feature Request: Use and Aggregate embedded Artist data

Feature Suggestions
1

With the "Use embedded tags" and "Gracenote genre level None" the Album and Track data is in pretty good shape.

 

Artist data isn't quite there. Examples:

  • The data scraped from the embedded metadata only includes one album worth of information. The last album directory scanned overwrites the previous information.
  • Genre information isn't pulled from the embedded metadata, but is instead pull from some other source (I assume Gracenote) even if the level is None.

 

Thank your for your continued efforts to improve the Plex music experience.

 

-D. Dwarf

 

2

With the "Use embedded tags" and "Gracenote genre level None" the Album and Track data is in pretty good shape.

Artist data isn't quite there. Examples:

  • The data scraped from the embedded metadata only includes one album worth of information. The last album directory scanned overwrites the previous information.
  • Genre information isn't pulled from the embedded metadata, but is instead pull from some other source (I assume Gracenote) even if the level is None.

Thank your for your continued efforts to improve the Plex music experience.

-D. Dwarf

I'm not sure I understand your first point.  Can you clarify?

On your second point, I've noticed the same thing.  What I figured out was that Plex does use the embedded genre information for albums, but Artist genres still come from (I also assume) Gracenote.  It would make more sense to me if the Artist genre list were a compilation of their album genres, rather than pulling potentially disagreeing info from Gracenote.

3

I'm not sure I understand your first point.  Can you clarify?

On your second point, I've noticed the same thing.  What I figured out was that Plex does use the embedded genre information for albums, but Artist genres still come from (I also assume) Gracenote.  It would make more sense to me if the Artist genre list were a compilation of their album genres, rather than pulling potentially disagreeing info from Gracenote.

I modified the LocalMedia.bundle to pull genre information out of mp3 files for the Artist Agent. Each directory the Agent enters, it overwrites the artist metadata XML file.

Example given the standard directory structure:

ArtistName\Album1\Track (contains genre Rock)

ArtistName\Album2\Track (contains grenre Pop)

If you only have Album1, you'll see the metadata for ArtistName contains the genre Rock. Once you add Album2, you'll see the metadata for ArtistName only contains Pop, even when both directories are scanned.

So while the agents handle aggregating track information into the album metadata, they don't handle aggregating the album information into the artist metadata.

-D. Dwarf