Local Media Scanner doesn't consolidate genres up to the artist level for FLAC

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I have a local media library where I’m storing soundtracks from various sources. As such I modify the audio tags such that Album Artist represents the Intellectual Property (e.g. Final Fantasy) and the Genre tags specify which type of soundtrack it is (e.g. Video Game, Motion Picture, Television, etc). This allows me then to use the artist view of the library to see which IPs I have soundtracks for, and then filter them down using the genre.

This works wonderfully in most cases, but it appears the genre of FLAC albums doesn’t get consolidated into the overall artist. For MP3s, if I have two albums under the Final Fantasy album artist, one with a genre of Video Game and one with a genre of Motion Picture, then when I view the tag information for the artist, both genres display as expected. However, if I have the same setup with FLAC files, then the artist displays with no genres. Plex appears to be pulling the genre information correctly from FLAC files, because if I look at the tag information for each individual FLAC album, then the genres display as expected.

I have not tested if this is just a problem with FLAC or if it is a problem across other non-MP3 audio formats. I am seeing this problem on the 0.9.15.0 build of PMS.

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Hi,

I’m having the same issue as the poster above. I have the option set to only use genre from embedded tags.

If I have an artist where all the albums are in the FLAC format, the genre tag at the album level gets populated correctly, however the genre tag at the artist level remains blank.

At a cursory glance, it appears as though if I have both MP3 and FLAC albums, the genre tags from the MP3 albums will make their way to the artist level, however the genre tags from the FLAC albums will not.

Anyone else notice this? How can this be fixed?

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It would be nice to get confirmation that the existence of this bug is at least acknowledged considering it seems to have been present for 4 years at least.

In the meantime for anyone interested that would like to see this fixed, I’ve written a quick powershell script that will correct the problem:

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Fair warning, this script will write directly to the plex database, so make sure you have a backup.

EDIT: removed script temporarily

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As FLAC uses Vorbis tags, does this bug also occur with other Vorbis music files like Ogg?

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Well, this is a feature suggestion area so you aren’t like to see a response.

For reporting / issues, you should create a post in

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I did some experimenting with misc types of files in a test library. I posted here:

I found it odd that Ogg files actually worked, but Flac didn’t, because they both use the same type of tagging system. (Vobis comments, I believe)

Initially, we were told it was because our files weren’t “perfectly curated” and tagged properly, but I think that eventually they almost conceded there might be a problem, and they might be looking at it… :thinking: