I have Plex set up for movies, shows and music, and it works perfectly, on my Synology 415play, direct streaming to local clients and sharing with a couple of friends who use Roku streaming stick. No problems whatsoever.
I’ve noticed that when my music library updates during the night, it constantly refreshes the metadata for all my David Bowie and Rolling Stone albums. No other artists/albums are affected, just these two. I can’t seem to figure out why. It fetches the correct metadata and everything works perfectly, but it’s doing it every night, like it’s trying to refresh what doesn’t need refreshing.
Can someone shed any light on it? Do I need to post logs etc?
It might be that one or several albums of these artists are not ‘matched’.
It might also be that you simply have no albums for these artists but just a folder full of single tracks. In which case Plex will try again and again to find out on which album all these tracks were released. Which is doomed to fail, probably because there was no such album with all these tracks on it.
If you can invest the time, find out from which album each of those tracks was ripped. Then organise and ‘tag’ them appropriately per album folder.
They are all matched perfectly, I ripped the cd’s correctly as flac files myself and tagged them all. Plex identifies them accurately and everything works perfectly. Then for some reason it tries to refresh the metadata during the night. Every night. I’ve enabled debugging and I’ll leave it for a couple of nights and then post the logs.
You can only say for sure if you inspect the Plex XML info of a track from each album.
If it says guid="com.plexapp.agents.plexmusic://gracenote/track/1795......
or guid="com.plexapp.agents.lastfm://..........
then it is indeed matched.
But if it says guid="local://6362........ then it is unmatched
