Server Version#: 1.25.8.5621 I am adding music to the server running on my NAS, and though the files are perfectly tagged and also follow the directory guidelines, the release dates keep being incorrectly set. For example (this is one of lots), “10cc - Sheet Music” This is an album from 1974 and…

[image] greatflash: Not only does it do that, it also alters the files own tags to 1993 I don’t have much input on the rest of this issue, but Plex should not (and in my experience, has never) alter tags in any of your media (movies, TV shows, music, whatever). If you believe it is doing so,…

Did a little quick test, unless the album is completely unmatched, @greatflash is right, Plex retains the year, record label, mood, style etc from MusicBrainz. the track information is from meta data. A way around it would be to match the artist and unmatch the projects underneath.

I have used several to try and fix this, including Picard, Lidarr, and manually editing with Mp3Tag. Just got back from the school run, so catch up on the other posts in a mo and do some tests. Thanks.

It’s possible the albums are matched to a “re-release” of an album, not the original. In that case, the release date might not make sense or appear incorrect. If your library is configured to use local tags/metadata, in MusicBrainz Picard, edit the tags for the album highlighted in this image. All…

Thanks for the heads up about other software running. I still had Lidarr running on the NAS and that was the cause of the year being re-written. Thank heavens for that as that’s a very simple fix :slight_smile: As to Plex and the year, still back to that issue. I have the year for both (as a test) …

my tags look like this, [full tags] This is across all files. [2022-03-21 16_44_29-Mp3tag v3.12 - __NASUK_Plex Media_Music_10cc_Sheet Music (1974)_]

I don’t think I have a “Date” tag in any of my files, but I may have configured MP3Tag to display the tag with a different name. Try removing that field. I also see that that date is 2202 - my calendar says that’s a few years away. :wink: Change the the YEAR tag to what you want (in YYYY) format,…

The date tag is not used in reference to the audio files meta. Anyway, for me, and regardless of what dates or years i put in, Plex will always look up the album and use the date returned from it’s matching regardless of me asking it to use my meta. I cannot find a solution to that at all? [2022-…

Also, it may be picking this up as the German reissue due to the publisher/label being referenced. From Musicbrainz: [image] The “Label” here matches the publisher in your tags.

I was just checking the same. Though, the main thing is, I am asking Plex to use my Meta when available, and all 3 Dates are set to 1974, yet it is ignoring my request and finding it’s own date and using that.

Incorrect album release dates

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

greatflash March 21, 2022, 4:45pm 12

my tags look like this,

This is across all files.

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Incorrect album release dates

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