New Plex Music Agent (POLL)

General Discussions
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On the Topic of “Trouble With Metadata”

Here’s the link to the thread:

The idea of a replacement to the current Basic Music Library plugin would be something Plex Members would consider as Plex Team Members who are on this forums can communicate the feedback to Engineering and give this valuable information to create a plugin for all users.

As it stands right now, all Plex users have access to the Last.fm plugin which is okay, but not great. Last.fm as a resource has been limited in the last several years mainly because the service was bought by CBS and has not been given the proper oversight needed to give rich metadata. This in turn as given users of Last.fm an experience that could be better, but it’s not.

MusicBrainz, which is the largest open-source metadata resource, offers free metadata information to any users who visits their website (https://musicbrainz.org/) or downloads and uses their software MusicBrainz Picard. From the community of Plex users, if you read through comments about metadata, MusicBrainz Picard is the go-to tool for tagging your music.

Plex Engineers are more likely to develop an all-new plugin for Plex Music for all users if enough people would comment below and express their desire for Plex to address this issue.

Below, would you be in favor for:

a) Gracenote + Last.FM

or

b) Gracenote + MusicBrainz

Keep in mind that the plugin for MusicBrainz would replace Last.fm and offer an all-new experience for metadata. Please explore MusicBrainz and check it out for yourself.

Plex Premium with Gracenote would still be around. I do not believe they should get rid of this plugin, but Last.fm needs to be replaced with a Music Plugin that allows users to add music information whether you are a Plex Pass or free user.

Please comment below with A or B.

As @ChuckPA, a Plex Team Member stated in the topic above:

“The more contributors to the poll, with simple comments in the thread, the better it would communicate to Engineering and give them information they need to justify such a change (man-hours)”

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Gracenote+MB

Don’t know if there is a VGMDB plug-in, but that would be great for those of us with game/anime tracks, particularly doujin music. MB is fair for that, though.

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In my experience with all three of these services, I found that none of them were accurate enough for my satisfaction. MusicBrainz created such a mess in my music library that it took a couple of weeks to straighten it out, which basically meant undoing everything MB did. In one case, MB insisted on tagging one of my albums with Japanese-language tags.

My library is completely tagged with embedded metadata, and Plex is configured to use embedded tags. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever depend on an online service again.

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B (must comment with at least ten characters)

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@beckfield -

Users such as myself are aware of being able to configure Plex to use embedded tags. However, there needs to be something better than what Plex offers now in Last.fm. You might not want to depend on an online service again, but there are a number of users who would. They deserve a better agent. Plex addressed movie metadata with Plex Movie which is not perfect, but it’s something.

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@SanchezHouse said:
@beckfield -

Users such as myself are aware of being able to configure Plex to use embedded tags. However, there needs to be something better than what Plex offers now in Last.fm. You might not want to depend on an online service again, but there are a number of users who would. They deserve a better agent. Plex addressed movie metadata with Plex Movie which is not perfect, but it’s something.

I’m just saying I don’t think MB is any better. When Plex introduced Gracenote, they said it was better than Last.FM. But Gracenote, while having different bad data, still has bad data. The same is true for MB, in my experience.

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B!! At the moment I have 6.5k albums and each of them is perfectly tagged with musicbrainz.

@beckfield said:
In my experience with all three of these services, I found that none of them were accurate enough for my satisfaction. MusicBrainz created such a mess in my music library that it took a couple of weeks to straighten it out, which basically meant undoing everything MB did. In one case, MB insisted on tagging one of my albums with Japanese-language tags.

My library is completely tagged with embedded metadata, and Plex is configured to use embedded tags. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever depend on an online service again.

The major difference between MB and Gracenote is that if there is a release missing or the metadata are not satisfying you can ADD a new release or CORRECT the metadata (which is not a big deal in my opinion).
So if you are saying that MB is not better than Gracenote you are just to lazy.

At the moment the music library is the only type of library where i cannot access the database plex is using to fetch the metadata, which is really annyoing from my point of view.

Furthermore, I assume that MB gets even better if the plex community starts to contribute to the MB database.

To all of you reading this: MB Picard is definitly the best choice to manage your music database, especially if you have a fairly large library (50000+).

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B (must comment with at least ten characters)

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B (must comment with at least ten characters)

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b) Gracenote + MusicBrainz (although I still scrobble to Last.fm and would like that functionality kept in-tact)