New Music Metadata handling

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Ahh, gotcha. There unfortunately no way to do that in the GUI.
But of course you can edit your database directly and remove those locks on all items in one sweep.

If you have access to the curl command or have an equivalent way of sending commands per http to your server, here is a sequence of commands to unlock them all.

First you need to determine the library ID of your music library.
You can get it from the Plex XML info of one of the music tracks (or by simply hovering the mouse cursor over the library name of your music library in the web app)

Then you need your X-Plex-Token as well.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/

Then you build yourself some queries:
(These will unlock artist bios, album summaries and the genres of both artists and albums. There may be additional fields which could be locked, but I’d have to investigate further how these are addressed per the API.)

curl -X PUT "me.local:32400/library/sections/NN/all?type=8&summary.locked=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX"
curl -X PUT "me.local:32400/library/sections/NN/all?type=9&summary.locked=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX"
curl -X PUT "me.local:32400/library/sections/NN/all?type=8&genre.locked=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX"
curl -X PUT "me.local:32400/library/sections/NN/all?type=9&genre.locked=0&X-Plex-Token=XXXXX"
  • replace me.local by the IP address or the domain name of your Plex server
  • replace NN by the library ID of your music library
  • replace XXXXX with your X-Plex-Token

There is also a Windows version of curl available.

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