Just trying out Plex for the first time with my own music collection (tagged in Media monkey). I have noticed straight away that there is no ‘Year’ tag on individual music tracks - this is needed for compilation albums, am I missing something? Instead it appears to be adding a ‘Originally Available’ date tag - which is applied to the whole album and of little use.
Also my artwork is used but sometimes it uses very low resolution images and I keep having to alter this manually.
What is the best setting to completely ignore any downloaded information from agents as all my music is already correctly tagged?
Can anyone help? Thanks - John
@reeltworeel said:
Instead it appears to be adding a ‘Originally Available’ date tag - which is applied to the whole album and of little use.
That’s the way it is.
Also my artwork is used but sometimes it uses very low resolution images and I keep having to alter this manually.
It is probably using ‘sidecar’ album art. Left there by Windows Media Player.
see https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1173370/#Comment_1173370
What is the best setting to completely ignore any downloaded information from agents as all my music is already correctly tagged?
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
put the line ‘Local Media Assets’ into the topmost position
Thanks for that.
So if I buy an eighties compilation album that was produced in 2000, then select All/Decade in Plex there would be nothing under 1980’s to play - as this album would not appear, seems like a serous omission to leave out the date for each track. It also needs a simple button that says ‘Only used embedded tags and artwork’
As a result I cannot use Plex for playing my music, it’s simply not good enough. I’ll have to stick with Amazon Music for the moment, maybe one day they will add the aforementioned suggestions.
FYI: The low resolution image is not from Windows Media Player, I’ve never used WMP to play my music and there are certainly no loose jpg’s in any of my music folders. Plex appears to be taking the embedded artwork and producing three images, two seem to be high quality and one is very poor and it randomly picks the poor one to be displayed.
I’ve tried your suggestion on how to ignore downloaded information from agents, this does work, but it also ignores my artwork completely.
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@reeltworeel said:
It also needs a simple button that says ‘Only used embedded tags and artwork’
I’ve tried your suggestion on how to ignore downloaded information from agents, this does work, but it also ignores my artwork completely.
Sorry, I didn’t notice yesterday that you had a Plex Pass.
Did you create a Premium Music library?
If so, perform the same procedure under
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Premium Music
put the line ‘Local Media Assets’ into the topmost position
and
edit the music library, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and check ‘use embedded meta tags’
Then take one album and perform the
Plex Dance (minus step 4) with it.
Have you checked for ‘hidden’, small album art files in your music folders?
Hi Otto, I have tried your suggestions, the best settings appear to differ than those you suggest. Premium Music Library does not seem to work as well as a simple music library. When I use simple library I have to set Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Personal Media Library - Personal Media Library on top and Local Media Assets at the bottom. This way my artwork is imported and MP3 tags are also. If I reverse the last two no MP3 Tags are imported and no artwork.
Just also to mention, if I import a compilation album and tracks have all different dates assigned in their tags Plex uses the most recent date it can find, in other words track 1 is 1990, 2 is 1994, 3 is 1992 it will choose 1994 as the album release date.
I’ve noticed a further problem which is that even though an album shows the genres I’ve set, when I go to All/Genres nothing shows, further to this I notice that individual tracks do not show their genres either. So now that’s the date and genres missing from individual tracks, this is so basic, yet it’s missing.
I’ve now given up with the music side of Plex, I am not wasting any more time on it, thanks for your help anyway. The film side of Plex looks more promising.
I’m just now discovering these annoyances as well. My main beef is trying to create a playlist by year. I want to listen to music only released in 1986. Instead, I get compilations that were compiled in 1986 (such as a 60s garage rock compilation), Or, if ONE track is from 1986, then the entire compilation is pulled into my playlist. Shouldn’t Plex be reading the metadata from individual files? That seems pretty basic.
Hi Mcamwill, as mentioned back in March 2017, I gave up with the music side of Plex - just not good enough. Months later I also gave with the film/TV/Video side as well, really poor quality playback or no playback at all, tried it on a Powerful PC and a Synology server - still no good.
Maybe they’ll sort it out one day, but for me it was £95 down the drain.
