Again, I agree with mikext’s comments - I’ve had exactly the same issues that he’s mentioning when trying the new scanner. Due to the size of my collection (it takes around 16-20 hours to rescan from scratch) I’ve tried new ‘test’ libraries using a subset of my collection with those recommended settings. I saw the same problems - missing artwork, missing years, some albums split into 2 (or 3), some artists split into 2. Again… the tags are correct. Every other piece of software I use parses them correctly. More interestingly, if I erased my test library and tried it again with the EXACT same settings, the albums that were originally messed up now scanned correctly, and a different set of albums would be split etc. Try it a third time… another different set would get messed up.
Im tired of this too. Wished Plex had a simple setting “Use local metadata/artwork ONLY”. No agents, scanners and all those messy things, i just want to have metadata/artwork as found in the music files, i’ll take care of setting it right.
Workaround with old “Plex Music Scanner” seemed to almost work and now destroyed in last server version.
Hi everyone,
Also, I just wanted to check if I am able to save a Smart Playlist based on Album Genre filtering.
Is it me or the “contains” “does not contains” “begins with” “ends with” have been removed from the drop-list, for the Album Genre tag?! Not to mention the “and” “or”
PMS last ver. installed, tried in different browsers, even the Plex Media Player for Win.
Well…
How do you explain this then?
If I change to Plex Music scanner and the Audiobooks Agent it automatically switches back to Plex Music Scanner.
Just because something isn’t updated anymore doesn’t mean Plex has to break it…
As many have stated here in the thread, not everyones music is on Musicbrainz or similar. OR I’ve already parsed all my music with Musicbrainz so the metadata inside the files is already correct.
Can we just get a meta-data parser for our local data?
sorry I don’t have any control over what plex does or doesn’t do.
I have my own issues/annoyances with plex music scanner.
as far as that audiobook agent, appears to be a 3rd party legacy agent, which like the old plex music scanner, is based on an old version python, which is end of life/deprecated.
I don’t know when support for them will be removed, it could be months or could be years.
My comment was not to agitate, simply advise of switching to the new one (in a test library) to see if you can get working the way you want. Maybe it’s not possible, and if not, then I suppose the only answer is enjoy the old legacy scanner while you still can, and/or wait patiently for any desired enhancements, or if you have to, find a different solution that does what you want/expect.
Needing a pickup truck instead of a hatchback, doesn’t mean the hatchback is bad or broken. Only that it doesn’t fit your particular needs.
great news
Latest stable screwed up my library. It says I have only 3 Rock albums. It ignores the tags in the files.
I tried 1.24.3 and 1.24.4 with “Plex Music Scanner” and “Plex Scanner,” doing a library scan & a full metadata update. “Prefer local metadata” is checked. Still has my music library messed up.
I downgraded to 1.24.0. No change. Database hosed?
I’m using Plex on Ubuntu.
What steps to fix this?
I see lots of posts about video metadata being hosed. I haven’t reviewed my video files and am trying to deal with my music collection being hosed. My smart playlists don’t work anymore. I can’t filter to the music I want.
My music is primarily FLAC files. The tags are set. This has been working for years.
Any Plex employee know how to fix this?
The problem is a bug at v1.24.3. The solution is to update to v1.24.4 which is now available and the fix is part of the release notes (Plex Media Server - #464 by Ridley).
I tried 1.24.4. Didn’t fix my library. I performed a metadata refresh on the library.
Which music scanner should I use? What settings should be set & actions taken to correct library other than installing 1.24.4?
The settings are like at the initial post.
If refresh doesn’t work try The Plex Dance ™
I missed the second image of settings. I didn’t realize 1.24.3 was not just a scanner issue, but the install reconfigured the Genres setting. Restored & seems to be working.
Thanks for sticking with me. I think things are back to normal.
I can’t like/upvote this comment enough. I’ve been on PMS for 5+ years with a collection that is right about 400,000 tracks. Everything is meticulously tagged, everything is structured according to Plex rules, everything has its own artwork, etc. But ever since the “upgrade” to Plex Music + MusicBrainz, it’s no longer possible for me to use the new scanner. Even with everything set to “Prefer Local Metadata” (and any other scanner/agent settings laid out in the how-tos), Plex Music cannot scan my library correctly. Not only will it fail on adding a new artist or album (incorrect matches, wrong metadata, etc.) it will also break things already scanned and imported on the legacy scanner and Last.fm agent. The issue seems to be that with the “audio fingerprinting” Plex thinks it can identify things via MusicBrainz and will STILL override local metadata, including pulling the wrong artwork.
Sure, I’d guess that 90 percent of people don’t have this problem — but guess what, Plex? Your software cannot distinguish between my 8+ different versions of the same Depeche Mode song, all of which have different artwork and metadata. No, you should not put the same Plex-obtained artwork on every one of those tracks, overwriting my meticulously sourced artwork. No you should not change the metadata according to MusicBrainz when I told you not to. No, you should not break albums in two because you think some of the tracks belong to a different album because of their audio fingerprints (they do not!).
It’s simply maddening. So my only solution is to run a “staging” Plex server that still runs Version 1.17.0.1841 — the last stable version that still more or less correctly scans new music with the legacy scanner and Last.fm. THEN after scanning I take those library files over to my “production” server. I downgrade that server to Version 1.17.0.1841, blow away the existing library, migrate over the library files from the staging server, sync up all the music files, then launch the production server and upgrade it BACK to the latest version (which I have to do in order to maintain compatibility with Roku, Plexamp, etc.). With 400K tracks this takes maybe 12 hours overall, so I only do it once every 1-2 months. But if I allow any version after Version 1.17.0.1841 to touch my library, the scanner will hose up a huge portion of it.
Why can’t we just turn off MusicBrainz, audio fingerprinting, and all that crap that doesn’t work and JUST use the metadata in my library? It’s more correct than MusicBrainz by far.
I completely agree with you not 100% but 500% and more.
We have carefully arranged and tagged our music as it should be and according to our wishes and with our art-work.
Please leave us this option.
MusicBrains is often, very often, wrong.
I manage by using the “plex-music-scanner” and the “personal media artist”. With this option, plex leaves everything as you want, but you don’t have any artist information.
But at MusciBrains this information is often wrong (he doesn’t know Giuseppe Verdi himself!), endlessly long and contains useless information. I sometimes have to read three pages of text before I find the birth and death dates in it. )
PLEASE plex gives us the choice to just turn off MusicBrainz, audio fingerprints and all that crap that doesn’t work and just keep the metadata we want, it’s our music library by the way, not MusicBrainz’s.
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