and then there are some unfortunate Plex passers, who meticulously went through the music library over the course of many days, ensuring file structure was EXACTLY as suggested in the above mentioned support articles, and that metadata, album images, etc were correct. I’m not perfect, so I might have missed something, but I’m pretty sure it’s all Plex compliant.
EDIT: except the 350 “unmatched” albums, which are actually all correct with metadata and file structure, but not in the MB database.
You can count me as one of those unfortunate Plex passers but luckily my problems were contained to having to remove the ‘discnumber’ metadata tag so I wouldn’t have multiple entries of the same album… But I have seem many threads about it here on the forum…
I have a few spare pitchforks/torches and some free time - if you wanna mosey up towards Castle Plex after while, give me a buzz…
Ok, so I just looked and for Agents I have Personal and Last.FM, that I have basically bypassed by preferring local. As a non-Plex Passer I just don’t get to go Premium is my guess.
(Note to self: You don’t need ‘Premium’ - things are working fine)
I’ve seen that. I guess I’m lucky. All of my multi-disc CD show properly with Disc 1, Disc 2, etc on the first try. Even the multi-disc vinyl albums I’ve ripped and added worked right. And everything displays properly, even if it is officially “un-matched”
Hmmm… maybe you can join the “fun” by setting the agent to “Plex Music” I think that’s an option for everyone.
You won’t believe this, but it was on Plex Music. I rectified that fearing something may ‘kick in’ unexpectedly morphing my well behaved and expertly curated Music Libraries into Three Fire Breathing Dragons eating up everyone’s goats.
This is just a joke …
Adding a new album … all unmatched albums (107) are checking “match” 3 timers (before adding new album, after adding album to Plex … and just for fun … let’s try a third time), which takes 20 mins … 97% CPU and lots of disk activity for absolutely no reason. Plex’s proxy server will get hammered more and more over time, because users can’t match albums or skip/exclude them.
The problem isn’t Musicbrainz … but the lack of proper implementation in Plex (to handle items that can’t be matched).
Adding an album did result in trying to match 107 albums … 5 times. I would happily help to resolve this problem, since I can see lots of errors and Unhandled exception in the PMS log:
Nov 11, 2019 10:04:58.049 [0x7f03c8af4700] ERROR - Unknown metadata type: folder
Nov 11, 2019 10:04:58.617 [0x7f03c8af4700] ERROR - Unknown metadata type: folder
Nov 11, 2019 10:05:45.073 [0x7f03d0be8700] ERROR - LPE: unknown item 971.
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:13.803 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:13.881 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:13.912 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:13.937 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:14.098 [0x7f03d08fa700] WARN - No matches for search.
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:14.157 [0x7f03d08fa700] WARN - No matches for search.
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:14.587 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:14.795 [0x7f03d08fa700] WARN - No matches for search.
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:14.983 [0x7f03d08fa700] WARN - No matches for search.
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:15.318 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:15.526 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:15.590 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
Nov 11, 2019 10:20:15.707 [0x7f03d08fa700] ERROR - Error response for update: 5 (Unhandled exception).
FYI https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-scan-takes-excessively-long-then-ram-usage-grows-until-nas-becomes-unresponsive/ seems to be another version of this.
Due to my high number of unmatchable albums (mostly recordings of live shows) my baseline scan time (where nothing new is found) still takes ~20-30 minutes.
I would love a way to tune this setting somehow, or exclude reattempts to match unmatched albums during manual scans.
Adding 1000s of weird audience recordings to musicbrainz just isn’t feasible for me.
Hence, the primary reason why I abandoned the use of PLEX’s 3rd party metadata agents and maintain my own, embedded tags. Not only is my music library accurately tagged (the way I want it), but my server isn’t unnecessarily working and I’m somewhat inoculated from the rudderless direction that PLEX has been heading.
The idea that a 3rd party provider can accurately tag a complex music library is rubbish. But that’s just me: I prefer not to rely on others.
Jumping in here…am I correct that musicbrainz.org is the goto db for the Plex Music Agent? I have been happily using TV and Movie dbs as a second line of reference when Plex (often) doesn’t get it right. I think by having your local media metadata come first in the library agent lists helps curb some issues (I’m more organized than the internet), but, for example, sometimes, Plex will take information in the folder structure as warp it into media the source is not. My recent example that got me asking where Plex gets its info is: The Sundays put out a single called “Summertime.” Track 3 on the first release pressing is a song called “Gone.” However, it looks like Plex might be taking the “03” prefix on the file and coming back with a track from a different pressing of the album where track 3 is “Here’s Where the Story Ends.” I’ll defer to Plex’s resources if I can just find them and change the prefix to the proper number.
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