Plex is not correctly showing id3 tags involving dates in the album field.

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I listen to a lot of live shows. Many not commercially released… SBD and AUD recordings. I format all of my id3 tags exactly the same:

“2010-10-29 Concert Venue, City, ST”

But Plex isn’t displaying all the dates this way. The concert venue and city and state are labeled fine, but sometimes Plex displays the date as 2010/10/29, sometimes 2010_10_29, sometimes 2010.10.29

I have my Agent set so that local tags are prioritized over last.fm tags. Sometimes, when I originally procure the files, the dates are labeled this way, but I quickly rewrite the ID3 tags. I dunno why it would be showing legacy tags? It’s annoying because it makes my live shows display out of order, non chronologically.

Anyone have any solution?

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Most of the times Plex reads your embedded metadata only once: when you add the file into Plex the first time.
If you change the embedded metadata later, it won’t make a difference in Plex.
Therefore: check and correct embedded metadata before adding your files into Plex.

To correct your issue you can try:

  1. press Refresh on the album. This may read some of the embedded metadata, but not all.

  2. perform the Plex Dance (for Music you can omit step 4). This forces Plex to treat the files asa if they were never added into Plex before and thus read all the metadata.

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The Plex Dance didn’t work. Tried it multiple times.

What did work was completely deleting all my application data for plex and then recreating my libraries. Somewhere in the app data folder, those album titles were cached and no action I could within the program itself could change that (outside of manually overriding them).

I don’t know why Plex has to make it so tough to update local metadata. If I update it in the file itself, in my opinion it should automatically sync with what Plex shows. The plex dance, or worse, deleting all app data, should not even be necessary.