Doesn’t show on your username that’ why I was confused
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/544b6d19-778c-38b3-ad73-ef0553d9d33e
Is this your release? Is it matched correctly?
The “correct” title for this is Citizen Steely Dan: 1972–1980 not just Citizen
Wait - you are suggesting that I have to match every item in my library with an online database - that historically has been both inaccurate AND incomplete?
… and: even when I specify “Prefer Local Metadata” ???
Yes that’s how Plex works unfortunately. For release types you can also use tags, but if you don’t have them Plex will fetch them from online sources. That’s why it’s called prefer local metadata.
I don’t like it as well, especially with “missing” metadata, in my example Style. I only use Genre, which is enough for me, but Plex forces itself to show me Styles from online sources. At least you can disable grouping, I cannot hide styles.
read more here: Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929 - support for release type embedded tags
Well frankly, that huge massive thread is just a bunch of people having problems with MusicBrainz tagging system and bugs in Plex.
OK… I’ve read the entire thread and it IS informative. Thanks for the link.
I will ask again: is there a manual or a wiki for all this? Reading through threads of folks having problems is NOT very efficient.
Without any manual, wiki or help files, can someone explain how/when Plex will find new items added to the library? I have been trying to avoid rescan the entire library - and I’ve assumed that it it is “set and forget”. Apparently not…
“Refresh metadata” does not seem to do it… perhaps this just refreshes existing entries? But even this is not clear. I’ve updated items with mp3 Tag - then refreshed metadata - and no change.
I have to say its not intuitive… at least if WMP was busy, I could always drag an item to the player and it would start looking…
After adding files how do I get Plex to see the data - and surely not rescanning the ENTIRE library is the answer. Thanks for the support.
Settings > Library > 
Run a partial scan when changes are detected
When changes to library folders are detected, only scan the folder that changed.
I have that checked… it did not scan. The next day - with no change - I rescanned the whole library. Hmmm…
On another note:
When I look at the Music Library the artists shown are based on Artist rather that Artist album. Is that right?
This is making compilations where I set a single “artist name”, to show a ton of different artists. Is there a setting to change this, because that does not seem logical - and it certainly is messy.
I have now moved my entire library over to Plex and certainly had to fix a LOT of metadata. Still plenty or results were baffling. My biggest disappointment is that Plex seems to handle Artist and Album Artist with the same “brush”. I’ve had to use Album Artist also as Artist - or I would have literally thousands of artists.
I’ve also experimented with mp3Tag by setting “MUSICBRAINZ ALBUM TYPE” to the value of “album;remix” - I cannot get this to work. I am trying to organize all my surround files into the remix section (since they are). No luck at this time - but would love this to work.
I have had some initial success using MKVTookNix to MUX DTS as MKA files - and then tagging them… its not perfect; as an example: the year does not seem to come across properly, and many of the albums are called “Audio.” Still - I can see the albums under the artist and it will just require a bunch of manual editing. Any comments in how to make this work without so much manual labor would be awesome.
Glad you are making progress, but… Yeah, it ain’t perfect.
It’s MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMTYPE so if you did it exactly as you wrote it, that’s the problem.
Here’s an example of what did work for me. mp3tag knows this extended tag and it will autosuggest the correct format.
Dumb question, but did you rescan the library? If so, then I am stumped.
@BanzaiInstitute - Good point - I’ll do that tonight before I sign off…
Nope - no joy. I don’t understand how this mechanism works but IMHO they should allow one to edit this metadata within the Plex GUI. That eliminates what each tagging software supports as well.
Weird! I have only used that tag on a couple of albums, but a rescan instantly put them into the right category. Maybe it’s a client difference? I only experimented with this in the hosted Plex web app. (https://app.plex.tv/desktop)
I agree things like this should be in the Plex UI also!
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