Music Metadata refuses to accept artists name change

Verify your mp3 files are tagged with ID3v2.3 tags (UTF-16)

In the properties of your music library, both the ‘Agent’ and the ‘Scanner’ need to be set to ‘Plex Music’.

Then perform the Plex Dance “light” (meaning step 4 can be omitted).

That’s what the “delete” feature is intended to do