I am about at my wits end with Plex, I am having multiple issues and it is driving me crazy. TV shows: the stored TV series on my server work on some of the Plex channels on my various Roku devices but not on others. These are all of the exact same type of Roku device running on the same network. W…

Same problems here with music, before I moved to Plexamp from the original all in one app everything was fine, but now have loads of Artists labelled as Various Artists when there is no mention of it in the tags. Compilation albums are labelled by the actual Artist and the Album Artist is labelled …

Plexamp is total junk, it has so much potential but the media scanning is terrible, please rollback the original Plex app to include music

Plexamp is only showing the audio as it was scanned by the server. There is zero difference to all the other Plex clients in this regard.

[image] Plex sorts albums with identical album artist info in random ways Metadata & Adding Files Further fundamental things that apply to music in Plex: all tracks within the same album must be tagged with the same AlbumArtist. Do note that AlbumArtist and Artist are di…

Plexamp is just a client, the metadata is applied within PMS. Plex has strict naming conventions and relies on good metadata… https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/ Most of the metadata comes from the musicbrainz database so the official musicbrainz tagging cl…

The music library scanned correctly before I moved to Plexamp, I have not altered the tags but now I have loads of artists now listed as “various artists” these have no reference to being various artists in the tags. The only items that have I have tagged with various artists are compilation albums …

[image] clarky100: now I have loads of artists now listed as “various artists” these have no reference to being various artists in the tags Again: this has nothing to do with Plexamp. Please show the file names, folder structure, and the embedded meta tags of some of these affected albums. …

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[image] OttoKerner: Also very important: is “Prefer local metatags” enabled or not? Which folder has been added to the Plex library? According to these screenshots it should be F:\Music and nothing else. I can’t see them in the screenshots: does each track have a track number tagged? From w…

F:\Music is the directory that is set to be scanned and within that each artist has it own directory, the album has track and disc numbers. I repeat this problem did not exist with the original Plex app and you can see from the screenshots Jellyfin has scanned it correctly. I have deleted the whole …

Metadata not showing up correctly in plexamp

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

OttoKerner June 19, 2025, 6:33am 5

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Metadata not showing up correctly in plexamp

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