Music - Wrong cover art in Player & library (Plex shows cover which doesn't fit to folder / IDTag picture)

[OttoKerner]

1. Hunt for hidden image files in your album folders.
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2. Make sure there are no image files in the folders higher up in the folder hierarchy
   Hunt for hidden image files in there as well.

3. Since you have your meta tags and file names in perfect order, rearrange the metadata agents as shown in this post:
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   Do also check ‘use embedded metatags’ in the properties of you rmusic library.

4. Perform the Plex Dance with all albums of this ‘artist’.
   (with music, you can omit step 4 of the dance)

Here are some more tips regarding music in Plex

multi-disc albums

Organizing Music - Soundtracks and Various Artists (Hit collections)

I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums: ===== 1.“Various Artists” is the usual choice for ‘Sampler’ style albums. There may be exceptions for ‘collaboration’ albums which are credited to all participating artists on the album cover. 2. use the title of the single as it appears on the cover. You can augment that information with (CDM) or (single) or (Maxi) or (EP) as it fits. If it is a genuine release, Gracenote should have no problem identifying it. …

possible ‘side car’ files for music

Music Album artwork

Little tip: If you have lots of bootlegs etc. you want to bring your embedded metatags into order first. Then you need to have the Local Media Assets agent in top position. I wouldn’t trust last.fm to fetch correct info about bootlegs and special editions of albums, like those recent expanded re-releases of Zappa albums. Put as much info into the meta tags as possible. Put a cover art inside the album folder and you should be good. Makes sure to set at least ‘AlbumArtist’ and ‘AlbumTitle’ to…

soundtracks and ‘various artists’

Plex Folder View - folder.jpg not recognized?

@naddel81 said: album view does not work properly, because if you have various artists on an album (most cases) then it shows them as “various artists” instead of the album name. folder view would be the best option and I guess it has been asked before. is it too hard to implement? You can put what you like into the AlbumArtist meta tag, if you don’t like it to appear under VA. You could use the game title or the game developer or the game ‘universe’ (if you have several albums which fit in…