Why does Plex refuse to scrape music properly for me? I always just get bjork stuff somehow?
If I do “refresh metadata” and then wait - it will then give me an option for “match” then if I do “match” it finds the album with no problems…
Part of the reason I bought the plex pass was due to the music enhancements. So I would like it to work properly.
You probably have a hidden album art file in the root folder of your music library.
With hidden files turned on, there are no graphic files of any kind or hidden folders in that directory. The only file types are:
*.mp3
*.flac
*.m4a
@fdasjf234342 said:
With hidden files turned on, there are no graphic files of any kind or hidden folders in that directory.
Not only ‘hidden’ files.
There is a separate checkbox for ‘system’ files as well.
(Just make sure you disable it afterwards again, because all those special files appearing on your desktop and in all other folders can be very confusing.)
Windows Media Player was so “helpful” to mark its tiny album art as ‘system’ files.
amazing, ok, yes, there are a lot of random .jpg files in there like:
AlbumArt_{FB401E68-8135-4E4E-8E40-99F4FB19BB94}_Large.jpg
So - do I delete these? If so, is there some plex cache I need to clear out and then rescan?
What are the steps after I delete all of these (assuming I delete them.)
@fdasjf234342 said:
amazing, ok, yes, there are a lot of random .jpg files in there like:
AlbumArt_{FB401E68-8135-4E4E-8E40-99F4FB19BB94}_Large.jpg
So - do I delete these?
Yes, definitely.
If so, is there some plex cache I need to clear out and then rescan?
What are the steps after I delete all of these (assuming I delete them.)
I’m afraid, it is not that easy. If Plex found these posters when it scanned your albums initially, it used them as the album’s default posters. It is not that easy to get rid of the ‘default’ poster.
Try ‘Refresh meta data’ on one of the affected albums after deleting those files.
If that doesn’t help, I 'm afraid you’ll have to perform the Plex Dance
(although, for music files, you can omit step 4)
OK, I will do the “plex dance” and report back - thanks for your help thus far. I have a much faster way of doing the dance vs. moving files. This is on my NAS so I will just rename the music share to musicb and then create a new music share that’s empty. This will prevent the large amount of copy they suggest. Be back in a minute…
@fdasjf234342 said:
I have a much faster way of doing the dance vs. moving files. This is on my NAS so I will just rename the music share to musicb and then create a new music share that’s empty. This will prevent the large amount of copy they suggest.
This’ll probbaly not work, because if Plex encounters a totally empty media folder, it will assume there is a problem with the media storage and leaves the library unchanged.
If you want to use this trick, you’ll also have to put at least 1 file into the ‘fake’ media folder.
(any file will do, even a small text file)
@OttoKerner said:
@fdasjf234342 said:
I have a much faster way of doing the dance vs. moving files. This is on my NAS so I will just rename the music share to musicb and then create a new music share that’s empty. This will prevent the large amount of copy they suggest.This’ll probbaly not work, because if Plex encounters a totally empty media folder, it will assume there is a problem with the media storage and leaves the library unchanged.
If you want to use this trick, you’ll also have to put at least 1 file into the ‘fake’ media folder.
(any file will do, even a small text file)
OK - I’ll add a single file
Step 4 is “clean bundles” however the directions only say make sure the scheduled task is enabled (which is is) but it defaults to “once a week.” How do I force to clean bundles?
edit never mind - found it on the three ellipses on the main server page. Sheesh, they should really add a button to do this on the task page as well.
I wrote above you can omit step 4 with music. 
If you need it nonetheless, hover your mouse pointer over the text LIBRARIES on the left screen side and then click on the ellipsis ( . . . )
OK, it’s re-scanning/downloading metadata now. This is going to take a while - I’ll report back once it’s done…
@fdasjf234342 said:
OK, I will do the “plex dance” and report back - thanks for your help thus far. I have a much faster way of doing the dance vs. moving files. This is on my NAS so I will just rename the music share to musicb and then create a new music share that’s empty. This will prevent the large amount of copy they suggest. Be back in a minute…
There’s no copy in the Plex Dance. Just moving, if you look under the hood in Windows, is actually just a rename. Moving a folder is just as quick as renaming, as long as it’s on the same logical drive.
@beckfield said:
There’s no copy in the Plex Dance. Just moving, if you look under the hood in Windows, is actually just a rename. Moving a folder is just as quick as renaming, as long as it’s on the same logical drive.
There might be a difference if you do this on a network share.
I know up-to-date SAMBA versions do support it, but older ones…
(and NAS devices sometimes have ridiculously outdated Open Source software components in their firmware!)
@OttoKerner said:
@fdasjf234342 said:
amazing, ok, yes, there are a lot of random .jpg files in there like:
AlbumArt_{FB401E68-8135-4E4E-8E40-99F4FB19BB94}_Large.jpg
So - do I delete these?Yes, definitely.
If so, is there some plex cache I need to clear out and then rescan?
What are the steps after I delete all of these (assuming I delete them.)I’m afraid, it is not that easy. If Plex found these posters when it scanned your albums initially, it used them as the album’s default posters. It is not that easy to get rid of the ‘default’ poster.
Try ‘Refresh meta data’ on one of the affected albums after deleting those files.If that doesn’t help, I 'm afraid you’ll have to perform the Plex Dance
(although, for music files, you can omit step 4)
It’s still downloading metadata - but no more random bjork albums. Looking much better now. Thanks man.
Here are some more tips for managing music:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
