Overwriting manual artist information

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.41.4.9463
Player Version#: 1.108.1.307-dd5b87aa

TL;DR: When adding an artist that is not known to the plex library metadata source it “guesses” the closest option overwriting the manually entered artist information.

I was adding some music from UwU Underground into my library, it was originally identified as “Various Artists” and “[Unknown Album]”. After correcting this to the correct values the album was kept but the artist was over written by plex to “Digital Underground” whom I already had in my library.

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As I had only just added the album to Musicbrainz it has not had time to filter through to the plex metadata source and be an option to match against.

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Uwu Underground should be matching fine. It’s listed on Musicbrainz.

Have you configured your library to go only for embedded metadata, or are you using Plex’ regular online metadata?

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I added UwU Underground as an artist and the album to musicbrainz less than an hour before adding to plex. So I expect that the metadata source hadn’t picked it up yet
I have the library configured to use the Plex Music scanner & agent with “Prefer local metadata” enabled.

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Correct. That’ll usually take several days (2-4 in average).

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I think you’re slightly missing the issue I’m asking about.
If I manually change the album artist to UwU Underground, Plex is ignoring this and changing it to Digital Underground a completely different artist.

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I think that’s the expected behavior.
Plex will attempt to match the artist and overwrite any manual unlocked edits.

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