I have a very big music library but it’s not optimised for Plex today.
I have a lot of folders by genre and then lots of sub folders, by artists.
I understand a proper Plex ‘music’ library is supposed to be more organised, and as far as I understand all artists should be at the root ‘music’ folder, regardless of the genre.
Before reorganising everything, something that will take me some good numbers of hours, bust most of all, in order to make sure that I’ll not have to undo this as it would not be hours but days, to put back manually by genre, can someone tell me that it will work perfectly?
Or if I can eventually keep a level of folder by genre and that Plex is fine with that as soon as artists & albums are properly named inside the genre folders?
The question is really if the “Plex Music” agent is good enough for the genre / style classification?
knowing i have a lot of small label & obscure metal bands, that counts for a good 40% of my music library.
Thanks so much guys,
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Ok that’s very hepful.
So in essence, I can keep my genre folder, even if plex will not use it it will not prevent plex to read the files properly.
For the tagging, I read that in terms of agent, i can basically decide to just use the ‘plex music’ agent, and basically disregard what is embedded in the mp3, is that correct? I guess i’ll be able to switch between “local files” or ‘plex music’ in one click in the library settings and just see what works best, would you agree?
Also, in the album names, I definitely saw that for movies the release date was a very important data point for Plex to be able to match, it doesn’t seem to be as important for music, as in you example and the support page, there is not album release date, is that correct?
I just unticked the “Prefer Local Metadata” in my Music library settings, to see if relying on MusicBrainz fix things up.
Could you confirm that putting the released date of an album in the folder name is not a problem for the “Plex Music” Agent? As I’d love to spare me the pain to remove them, as it is in pretty much all my album folders. In the support page, all the examples are just with the album name.
My main issue with the genre, so I’m trying to find a solution to manually correct it.
I’m struggling to understand the difference between MusicBrainz & MP3Tag (that just released a mac version).
MusicBrainz seems to be a data base, offering a software where you can lookup things and automatically fetch & add oneline metadata to your music files. But you cannot really edit them yourself as far as I understand.
M3Tag: metadata editor, and that’s it.
MusicBrainz also offers another tool called AudioRanger, any thoughts on this one?
Both MusicBrainz Picard and MP3Tag allow you to edit the medadata. Both allow you to do that for a whole album, or individual tracks. With MP3Tag you can select from several online sources to automatically tag your music, and MusicBrainz Picard has several plug-ins to gather metadata from other online sources.
I use both (prefer MusicBrainz) but I always review and edit all automatically downloaded metadata to correct, add, or delete metadata I disagree with.
