...
try:
artist = None
(artist, album, title, track, disc, album_artist, compil) = getInfoFromTag(f, language)
#print 'artist: ', artist, ' | album_artist: ', album_artist, ' | album: ', album, ' | disc: ', str(disc), ' | title: ', title, ' | compilation: ' + str(compil)
#ADDED
if artist is not None and album_artist is None: album_artist = artist
...
Solution. Not ideal, but seems to work.
-D. Dwarf
I've duplicated this issue with files with *NO* metadata, as assessed by performing an "id3v2 --delete-all ~/Desktop/testLibrary/Music/Van Halen/Van Halen II/02 - Dance The Night Away.mp3", verifying that there truly are no tags with an "exiftool ~/Desktop/testLibrary/Music/Van Halen/Van Halen II/02 - Dance The Night Away.mp3", and then performing a scan of the folder from Plex Media Server.
The rather odd detail is that the scanner will query last.fm and receives a WARN - No matches for search.
Tested with another 20 artists and 60 albums for good measure, and nothing.
Another odd one... if one uses "fix incorrect match" rather than the auto-scanner, manually enter it's title, you can get a valid result from the API Query.
I am going to dig further into this.
There needs to be some attention given to this topic. I appreciate Plex may be primarily known for it's video media organisation (of which it does a fantastic job). However the audio side seems to be let down. Audiophiles will spend many hours ensuring the tags and meta are right, deleting all the tags and relying on file/folder is unacceptable and a loss of resolution (year, disc etc) Manual editing is unacceptable if scanners are provided, they should work as expected. I can't tell you how to fix the problem, but for my money i can ask that the situation be corrected. Thanks for an otherwise great product and the ubiquity of clients.
There needs to be some attention given to this topic. I appreciate Plex may be primarily known for it's video media organisation (of which it does a fantastic job). However the audio side seems to be let down. Audiophiles will spend many hours ensuring the tags and meta are right, deleting all the tags and relying on file/folder is unacceptable and a loss of resolution (year, disc etc) Manual editing is unacceptable if scanners are provided, they should work as expected. I can't tell you how to fix the problem, but for my money i can ask that the situation be corrected. Thanks for an otherwise great product and the ubiquity of clients.
Agreed. You can scrub your files all you want, with tags galore and your file naming convention set correctly, but you'll still suffer - this is clearly Plex's weakest area in an otherwise great product.
The Issue I notice is the Music Selection works but as you have seen, it works within the constraints the developers have place on the program. Be it for money or what.
Music is one of the most updated items in the world. Metadata is available for most any song. Many updates on Meta Tags, Styles, Info, Albums, etc.
Even True music lovers like myself rip our music in the latest form with scanned art in BMP,JPG. NFO files with a full synopsis of the album.
My Audiobooks have the same care and detail. I keep all of the Metadata in the files up to date with mp3tag and JPG/NFO files. I have even included RTF files for Calibre
Playlist change and somethimes gets scrambled when you move files around so they can be unreliable but I include them also.
Nowhere in Plex can I find a bundle, agent, or scanner that will check the file first to see if the Metatag is readable and contains info. I would love one to do that. There could also be an option to show which info to use and allow you to update either way.
If anyone has found a way, let me know. I would appreciate it. Would save me hours of trying to make it work. I loved mediamonkey because it gives all those options.
My issue is display of Track Artist in Album view. Track Artist will be different from Album Artist on a compilation album. Track Artist (or Contributing Artist) is populated in all of my metadata but, and here’s the issue, it displays on the Album view in Plex Web Server but not in any of the Plex clients I use, e.g. iOS, Samsung Smart TV. Does anyone know why?
Not sure if this is the right forum but will post anyway.
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