I’ve set up a new libraray consisting of Multichannel .m4a music files called “Surround Music”. When I scan the library, most populated with the correct artwork, song titles, and metadata.
However, about 25% filled in everything EXCEPT for songs, which only fill in with the “Surround 4.0” metadata defaulted by MKVToolNix. So for those, I made sure that the song titles and track numbers were correct locally, then I tried scanning again.
No change. See screenshots for what Plex returned, vs. my filenames. I used Plex Music as the agent.
You’ll have to refresh metadata in order for Plex to pick up and local metadata tag changes, a library scan probably won’t do it. If you always want to use online data over local tags, you can also uncheck Manage Library > Edit > Advanced > Prefer local metadata:
Thanks for that. I’ll give it a try. Will it still compare local metadata to online? I number the tracks locally (for sorting purposes) and would hope that those don’t appear in the song titles.
As long as “Prefer local metadata” is disabled Plex should always use online data over what’s in the file. I think it will only fall back to local metadata if there isn’t an online match.
