Server Version#: 1.28.0.5998 Player Version#: 4.86.1 I have followed the article on music videos for global folder. A few of my artists are showing music videos but not all of them. I am wondering what I’m doing wrong. The global folder has the artists folders in it with the music videos in them.…

Some things to try: Are your music files in a similar folder structure, like /music/artistname/trackname? If so, is the artistname identical in both folder names (I’m thinking of extra spaces, leading spaces, invisible characters, possibly upper/lowercase differences, …)? Try copying the artistna…

Thanks. I will go through all of this. As a heads up all of the videos are in .mkv I am running plex in docker on UnRaid OS.

I’m not familiar with UnRaid. Is that a Linux OS? If so, then I would also check the file permissions.

Something just occurred to me, which may eliminate some testing: I don’t think Plex can read embedded tags from MKV files. [image] MP4 TV Show Files Displays Incorrect Episode Thumbnails Desktops & Laptops The reason is that Plex can read embedded meta tags/artwork from …

Plex doesn’t care about metadata for music videos. It will be entirely based on the folder and filenames. Also, do you have music for all of these artists? Plex will not list an Artist unless there is at least 1 song. If there isn’t an Artist, there won’t be any music videos.

Yes I have music for them. AC/DC is an example. I have all but a couple of their albums. I have 43 music videos for them and none are showing up. But most of the other artists that I have they do show up.

Hmm. The folder needs to be named to match the artist. Not sure how you would name the folder “AC/DC”. This might not actually work for them. Let me test.

[image] Music tags not being read Desktops & Laptops AC/DC is an annoying special case. When I created my library, I had to resort to naming the artist folder ACDC. (i.e. without any separator inbetween. The dash is interpreted by Plex as a separator between album artist …

I got it to work by using “AC DC”. I just stuck some random videos in there and it worked. I tested using Windows and not Unraid so the OS may have something to do with it. [image] [image]

Without a plex pass you have no option for a global music folder I have music videos from artists that I don’t have albums for Now what? All I want is a stand-alone library for a music video collection that has some basic metadata

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beckfield July 26, 2022, 11:43pm 5

Something just occurred to me, which may eliminate some testing: I don’t think Plex can read embedded tags from MKV files.

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