Management of genre for Music ?

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Hi

I’m confused about how Plex handles genre for music files… I have Plex Pass and created a Musit Library with the extra features for Plex Pass.
Will Plex uses genres of tags in the audio file or the ones he retrieves online ?
How to get Plex to handle correctly multiple genres in a same audio file ? right now it creates a genre that is basic text concatenation of all genres listed in the tag which is completely wrong :frowning:

Thanks

Vincèn

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Depends on what you specified when the library was created - https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204892678-Creating-a-Premium-Music-Library

Did you tell it to use embedded tags and at what genre level did you set it to? And do you have the local agent first in the list?

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@Peter_W said:
Depends on what you specified when the library was created - https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204892678-Creating-a-Premium-Music-Library
Did you tell it to use embedded tags and at what genre level did you set it to? And do you have the local agent first in the list?

Yep I activated the Embedded tags option ! Does it mean it’ll use only tags in the file and not the ones retrieved from Internet ?

What about also the multiple genre handling for an audio file ?

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As I’ve understood it, if the local agent is at the top and embedded tags setting set, it should adhere to and comply with this. Given that the premium music was built upon and surrounded by gracenote features, sometimes it will sadly interfere. If the goal by you is to have maximum control and only use your own local metadata it might be better to try the standard library and see if that gives you more in line with whata desired.

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If the Local Media Assets agent is at the top of the agents list, and the “Use embedded tags” option is enabled, Plex will always defer to embedded tags, and draw from the web only when the embedded tags are not present. But there is an additional setting, which Peter_W mentioned, in your Edit Library page for how to use Gracenote’s genres.

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Setting this option to “None” should prevent Plex from using Gracenote’s genres at all.

As for multiple genres in the embedded tag, the ID3 spec calls for multiple genres to be separated by the ‘/’ character. Plex also will honor the semicolon ( ; ) character as well. Before I learned this, I used to use a comma, or even just a space, to separate genres, and I saw exactly what you saw - concatenated text as a single genre.

The last time I had occasion to pay attention to all this, everything worked as I just described. If it isn’t this way now, there may be a bug.

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Thanks for the explanation so I changed priority to use my tags and not Gracenote !

I’ll update my tags using the ; or / and will let you know if it works then.

Thanks for help