Server Version#: 1.25.8.5663-e071c3d62 Player Version#: N/A I have a rather large collection of music files, some of which have been assigned egregiously incorrect information by the Plex Media Server - for example, I have a directory with all the tracks of a CD corresponding to a live performance…

Hmm, I’ve never used id3tool, but from what I can find, it writes id3 v1 tags. Do you know if that’s true, or am I finding outdated info? If so, I wonder if Plex is able to support id3 v1. I use Puddletag, which writes id3v2.3 or v2.4. That’s about the last idea I have here, I think.

Thanks. I’ll check this tag version issue.

Well, I got a tool that converts id3 tags version 1 to version 2. After using it, this what I get for the file I mentioned above: $ id3v2 -l f7115410_bc6ec607_02.mp3 id3v2 tag info for f7115410_bc6ec607_02.mp3: TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Bird List TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(…

I don’t see an Album Artist (TPE2) tag in there. I helped someone just a few days ago where Plex wouldn’t get it right if that tag was empty.

I changed it to read id3v2 -l f7115410_bc6ec607_02.mp3 id3v2 tag info for f7115410_bc6ec607_02.mp3: TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): Bird List TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Nyman, Michael TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Michael Nyman Live TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 2 …

[image] Ok, last ditch - the “ Plex Dance .”

Would you mind zipping up one or two of the files and PM’ing it to me? I can get it to one of the developers. Maybe the Plex log files , gathered after trying a refresh, would be good too.

Are you talking about one or two of the tracks themselves, or only their id3 tag information?

the tracks. They’ll need it to determine if there’s something in the way the tags are written in the files that’s interfering with the scans.

OK, I got a couple of tracks together with the PMS logs obtained immediately after attempting to refresh the metada for one of them. How can I make them available to you? By using the upload capability in a separate message?

Forcing metadata download for a single folder

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beckfield May 11, 2022, 1:51am 9

Ok, last ditch - the “Plex Dance.”

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