The automatic tags loaded from MusicBrainz usually work fine but occasionally Plex does not recognize a disc(s) with these tags or assigns the tracks to a different disc of the same name. In these cases it would be nice to be able to tell Plex to use local metadata. A simple solution would be to pu…

I think this feature suggestion is essentially the same thing: [image] With Plugin Support Dead - Can Plex finally have native .NFO support? Feature Suggestions Natively supporting .NFO files for metadata as part of the Local Media Assets would go a long way for helping p…

I don’t think so. Plex supports local metadata for music files but requires that local metadata be provided for all the files in a database. My suggestion is to provide a way to allow the local metadata stored in the music files in a single directory to override the metadata Plex automatically gets …

I understand and have been adding disc numbers using mp3tag. I have a three CD set The Great Violin Concertos by Yehudi Menuhin - the first disk does not show up at all and the last two discs show show up as different disks in later set also called The Great Violin Concertos also by Yehudi Menuhin. …

Thanks for your suggestions. I’m using Windows 10 and the permissions for these CDs are the same as the 100s of other discs the Plex handles properly. My feet hurt from all the dancing. The problem is that there are two different EMI Classics CD sets, one with 3 discs and the other with 10 discs,…

I finally got it to work - kind of. The set shows up under Yehudi Menuhin when I set: Album Artist: Artist: Yehudi Menuhin First Track Composer: But the Artist is shown as: Johann Sebastian Bach Regardless of whether Yehudi Menuhin is set as the Album Artist or the Artist (or both), the whole…

Plex put the Jascha Heifetz CD under Sergei Prokofiev which does not appear anywhere on the CD. It seems there is a bug in Plex - I hope these clues will help track it down and stomp it out.

Correction - Prokofiev is one of the composers of track 5 of the Heifetz The Decca Masters (Vol 1.) CD.

Fine grained support over Use Local Tags

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I think this feature suggestion is essentially the same thing:

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