# Music agents going totally nuts

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-agents-going-totally-nuts/87178>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\
**Created:** [December 22, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-agents-going-totally-nuts/87178 "2014-12-22T10:01:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![KillerWhale](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/killerwhale/32/4334_2.png) [@KillerWhale](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KillerWhale)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-agents-going-totally-nuts/87178/1 "2014-12-22T10:01:13Z")

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Hello all,&nbsp;

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After much love of Subsonic, but the fact that it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain on a NAS, I decided to come back to Plex and give it a new go. I see it has made much progress and the web interface is awesome!&nbsp;

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However, I can't find a way to have Plex properly tag my music files. I spent years ripping and tagging my huge CD collection, with genres and artists and albums. I would just like Plex to obligingly read my ID3 and FLAC tags and deal with that. However, the agents go completely nuts.&nbsp;

When Plex scans the library, it gets about half of the tags right, and dumps random albums to random artists - his favorite seems to be Nobuo Uematsu (!), composer of Final Fantasy fame, who gets a duplicate entry in the database and whose doppelganger ends up with various albums not related to him AT ALL.&nbsp;

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- I am using the Personal Media Artists in the Library options.&nbsp;

- In the Agents section of the options, both Artists and Albums, Personal Media Artists (or Albums) are force-checked and Local Media Assets are checked as well. (By the way, what is the difference between those two??)

- Hardware: Synology DS412+ with DSM up to date, custom RAM increase to 2 Gb, latest Plex version downloaded from the official website and not the Synology package repository.&nbsp;

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I would just like Plex to read my artist / albums tags and be done with it... I don't give a damn about the fancy metadata it can retrieve, I think the basics would be to work with the user's media, the way he or she stores it. Much rougher software like Subsonic reads tags from mp3 and FLAC, I would guess Plex can do it too? But how?&nbsp;

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Thank you for your help!

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**Author:** ![Lazarus\_Long](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/lazarus_long/32/333009_2.png) [@Lazarus\_Long](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Lazarus_Long)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-agents-going-totally-nuts/87178/2 "2014-12-22T23:12:01Z")

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I am having a similar issue...I've been ripping all my old CD's to FLAC format and everything is properly tagged. &nbsp;However, it seems that Plex has a mind of its own! &nbsp;I've got albums like Dark Side of the Moon getting tagged to Beyonce???

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 3:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-agents-going-totally-nuts/87178/3 "2019-12-21T03:56:35Z")

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