Please help me troublshoot this metadata issue

[del_f7]

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I seem to be having an issue with my AC/DC albums.

I’m pretty sure they were behaving themselves before, as I’ve colour-coded the folders in the finder to show that they’re filing properly in both Roon & Plex.

But I’ve just discovered that all my AC/DC albums are not in the correct place in Plex (although they are in Roon).

It’s very odd because if I drop an AC/DC album into a test library I have, it shows correctly:

(I’ve taken the “/” out because it can play havoc with some platforms, so the artist & albums artist for all the albums is just ACDC.)

When I drop it into my main library, it picks up a completely unrelated Album Artist tag & files with my Marvel soundtracks.

I can only assume this is something to do with the fact that AC/DC released a soundtrack album for Iron Man 2 & Plex is misappropriating this Album Artist tag & Using for other AC/DC albums, despite their being completely unrelated.

Can anyone suggest anything I might try in order to resolve this?

[del_f7]

Okay, so removing the Iron Man 2 soundtrack album from the library seems to allow the ACDC albums to file correctly.

Quite why we should have to jump through these stupid hoops is anyone’s guess.

[del_f7]

If you’re keeping up with the incredibly exciting story, I’ve re-tagged the soundtrack album to sit with the ACDC albums & I’m now re-adding them a few at a time. Let’s see what happens when the soundtrack album goes back in.

[ChristianKent]

Are you using MusicBrainz? Because if you have MusicBrainz tag them, Plex deals with music files better because it uses the MusicBrainz database.

[del_f7]

Thanks for the reply.

I’m not using MusicBrainz & all my tagging is done manually by me to a very specific format that allows all my music (23,000 albums at the last count, give or take) to file the same in the finder, in Roon & in Plex. (I’m hoping to do away with Roon eventually, but I don’t fully trust Plex yet.)

Personally I find the MusicBrainz database to be a complete dog’s dinner. There’s no way it would cope with correctly tagging 10 or 15 different releases of the same album. I also have thousands of albums that are not in the MusicBrainz database so it’s definitely not an option for me.

I did solve the AC/DC problem, though.

If only I could get Plex to just use my tags & stop looking around the internet for other info that I don’t need, I wouldn’t have any of these problems.

Appreciate the suggestion, though. Thanks.