I tried to add a library for the music I’ve collected over decades. I was devastated to find that Plex demands that I tediously rename and reorganize over twenty thousand tracks to conform to its developers’ notion of how users should organize their music content. What a shame. All I would like is a…

@freonpsandoz - Just about every media player out there will look at the ID3 tag information embedded in music files, and display back to you that information… Winamp, VLC, even Windows Media Player, to name just a few. This has been the case ever since MP3’s were around !! → I’ve been doing it fo…

Hi axeman, Here’s my current folder structure: 80s Christmas Classical Comedy Dylan Foreign Hawaiian Jazz & Blues Modern Old Pop & Hip-Hop Reggae Stones Plex doesn’t seem to be using metadata in the files at all. The track view on the server shows all tracks, but the only artists it s…

OK, so from what you have shown, it would appear that your focus may be based on Genre. Is it then the case that under each of your folders, say 80s, you have hundreds or even thousands of individual tracks, none of which are part of any album? EDIT: [image] freonpsandoz: The track view on th…

[image] freonpsandoz: Plex doesn’t seem to be using metadata in the files at all. Plex must be fully configured to prefer embedded tags . It’s not the default configuration, and your tags have to be very accurate. In my tests, once those conditions are met, Plex does a very good job with fol…

All Plex needs to do is to allow a generic audio library in much the same way it has the home movie generic video library. So if you have home audio recordings, lectures, audio books, whatever that aren’t an album you can find on musicbrainz, you can put them in a library and they will go in based o…

[image] tramp78: All Plex needs to do is to allow a generic audio library in much the same way it has the home movie generic video library. For which there’s already an existing suggestion :wink: [image] Alternate Audio Library Feature Suggestions I would like to ha…

That link opens up a whole new set of capabilities that I didn’t know about. I’m experimenting with it now. That link should probably be the one that users are directed to when they search for how to organize music in Plex instead of the one that tells them to completely restructure how their files …

[image] tom80H: For which there’s already an existing suggestion If I honestly thought that our suggestions made a bit of difference I would vote on that one again. But nope.

Here’s a specific example of a track for which Plex shows the artist field blank and the incorrect album “Reggae Gold 2005.” (When I open the link to that album, the album art is neither that of the named album, nor the album in the track.) Here’s the mediainfo description of the track: General Com…

Try using https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ to auto-organize your music

Please make Plex less controlling

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

tom80H December 13, 2021, 12:56am 9

For which there’s already an existing suggestion

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Please make Plex less controlling

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