Seriously. I’ve been using Plex a “REALLY” long time now. Since around 2103 maybe? I don’t know. It’s been a long time. What I’ve learned over the years is that Plex seriously hates id3 tags in audio files. Other files are probably just as bad as Plex tries to match everything to some online databas…

I already have that option enabled. I have scripts downloading about 50 files per day. Scripts create the folder structure, scripts tag the files. The naming is very consistent, the tagging is very consistent. Yet still, Plex will occasionally show a file has unknown artist or it’ll have the album w…

[image] aaronnewsome: Seriously. I’ve been using Plex a “REALLY” long time now. Since around 2103 maybe? Ah, a fellow time-traveler. How do you do? [image] aaronnewsome: A question to the Plex developers, why in the world is it preferred to ignore the tags in the files? They’re defin…

From your description, it sounds to me as if Plex is scanning the new files sometimes too early. Before your script had a chance to add the proper metadata. Is your script downloading and tagging the files while they’re still outside of a “watched” Plex library folder? [image] aaronnewsome: Th…

Yes Otto. I am running the latest stable release. I’ve already considered that maybe Plex is scanning the files before the download is complete or before the id3tag has been applied. I’ve gone through every option I can find to try and stop this from happening. I’ve turned off every feature that l…

vote here [image] Tag support for ROBUST music library organization Feature Suggestions This is a request for comprehensive support of the ID3/Vorbis/etc. tags that are necessary for truly meaningful and complete organization of music libraries, both classical and popular…

I have tried to activate the “Advanced” settings but it is dark and cannot be clicked on. I have a library that I organized with SongKong, which I find very good. I have set SongKong to tag in a Plex compatible manner (there is a setting for this within SongKong) but Plex rescans the library and mov…

[image] fost219: activate the “Advanced” settings but it is dark and cannot be clicked on can you take screenshot of what you are looking at

I hear ya. My problem in this thread is really for podcast audio files. I mostly gave up Plex for music audio files a long time ago. It really boggles the mind why it can’t read the id3 tags in the file and use them, even when it looks like the developers have actively implemented options to make it…

Blockquote So, the actual issue is that sometimes Plex is not using embedded metadata and not that it’s outright refusing to use them? Correct. Plex will about once in 100, ignore certain metadata tags. Sometimes it’s the artist tag, sometimes it’s the album tag, sometimes something else. Re-an…

Plex Hates id3 tags

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Plex Hates id3 tags

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