Server Version#: 4.144.1 Seems like a simple enough question. I suppose what I mean is can I “de-identify” a release the way I can in Roon & literally force the software to only use my metadata? All of this “prefer” nonsense simply doesn’t work. I have all of the correct settings, as far as I ca…

CHOONZ_LOSSLESS is correct. Mac’s rip CDs to AIFF by default, but I can always convert to FLAC if it’s better for Plex. It’s quite a lot of work but it’ll be worth it if it works.

Further to the above, I made a new library, PLEX_TEST, added a couple of albums, converted them to FLAC & tagged them correctly. I tweaked a couple of the settings in the advanced pane & they immediately switched to being displayed correctly. This is very encouraging. [Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 12…

By the way, I do appreciate that I can have unique album art in each release in Plex but a) Until I can get it to look at my metadata, it pulls its own from the web, including the sleeve art and, as with the Lamb versions show before, it doesn’t make a distinction between versions. b) It forces th…

Put a square jpg into the album folder, named cover.jpg. (It can be of a much higher resolution than what you’d reasonably embed into an audio file, too.)

Yeah, I want the album covers to look like the real thing & many of them are not square. I would have to open up every file & add extra on it to make the rectangular image sit within a square, which would mess up the way it displays in Roon. It’s not a deal-breaker though. I can live with truncate…

[image] del_f7: What’s odd is that one particular album (13th Floor Elevators) I didn’t have to change anything, but it dropped into the new library correctly but is displaying incorrectly in the previous library. When I delete it from the previous library & then copy it back in from the test li…

So here’s another question… For the PLEX_TEST library, I created a new folder on my external hard drive & then copied files to it (via the “waiting room”, where I checked the tags). So I’m effectively duplicating my main library into a second folder. Since my music library is 11TB & I only have a…

If there is file format conversion and re-tagging involved, I see no other solution than to remove the source file after successfully adding it to the new folder.

It’s cool. I can check the tags in the existing library, do any conversions there, too. Make sure that Roon’s happy & then use the “add folders” option that I just found in the library settings. :+1::slightly_smiling_face::+1:

Oh, but hang on. Even though the 24 Carat Black album is showing correctly in the PLEX_TEST library, it seems to be a separate entity in the “added folders” pane. [Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 13.24.08] [Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 13.23.37] What’s that all about?

Is it possible to force Plex to use only my metadata?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

OttoKerner January 25, 2025, 1:38pm 39

That is basically a Plex Dance “light” (i.e. without step 4), which is not necessary for music).

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Is it possible to force Plex to use only my metadata?

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