I keep having a problem with artists with special characters in their names .i.e. Howlin’ Wolf, or N.E.R.D
Does anyone have a tip on how to get around this problem? Is there a wild card I can use, or quotes? Some names work by just leaving out a few letters, then you get a choice but for some I can’t get the correct name to display at all
It helps tremendously if at least the first track from this artist
that is added into Plex has the correct spelling in its embedded metadata.
You could also use the ‘Fix Match’ command at the artist level. (you might have to attempt this twice)
Many of these issues can indeed be circumvented if you rely primarily on your own embedded metadata. (Provided you have them in order.)
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
Drag the line ‘Local Media Assets’ into the topmost spot (make sure it has a checkmark first)
Edit the music library(s), go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and put a checkmark into ‘Use embedded tags’
^^^ these changes don’t affect items rectroactively, which were already added into Plex.
You’ll have to perform the Plex Dance to see an effect on “old” media.
(with music, you can omit step 4 of the ‘dance’)
Thanks for the quick reply,
For the artist “Howlin’ Wolf” I edited all the metadata and set all the artist and albumartist fields to “Howlin’ Wolf”. I do note though that some track numbers seem to be incorrect on some albums. I tried your suggestion on both a windows and linux plex server. I moved two artists, The Beatles and Howlin’ Wolf. The Beatles folders all restored properly. The Howlin’ Wolf folder seemed to cycle through all of the incorrect entries for the name on the Last.FM database… it changed from one incorrect spelling, to the next, and although the correct name was originally selected, it was dropped… The windows plex server selected “Howlin Wolf’” while the Linux server selected “Howlin’ Wolf” (the correct spelling) but supplied no artist data from Last.FM (a manual entry into Last.FM does return “Howlin’ Wolf”). Any attempt to fix match the name rejects the name “Howlin’ Wolf”. I was hoping there were some work arounds specific to the database to get it to read the input string differently.
Thanks again, any other ideas? There are a couple of artists I’ve found have this problem…
regards
Peter
Try a straight apostrophe ', not the quotation mark ’ you’ve been using.
I have been using the ’ (tried both ` and ‘) I even went to the Last.FM site, and cut and pasted the artist entry into the field… so their own artist name isn’t recognised by the search… I’m not sure what the problem is, it’s not just the ’ symbol. Some names with lots of periods in them seem to be an issue but Notorious B.I.G. worked fine. It does appear that there are a lot of misspellings for Howlin’ Wolf though, maybe that’s the problem… there’s Howling, Howlin, different ’ symbols, different spacing between words, plus simple misspellings, maybe its filled an array??
thanks again… keep thinkin…
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