Server Version#: 1.43.3.10793 Player Version#: 4.160.0 I am trying to add a couple albums from a band names Vitruvia. However, Plex keeps changing the name to Vitruvian. No matter how many times I manually edit the albums, it always changes it to the wrong name. All of the metadata in the files is…

That was it, thank you! Forgot that artist is matched separately. Went to the artist page, told it to unmatch, and boom! It is now correct.

I’m not familiar with them but I don’t see a band with that name on https://musicbrainz.org , or at least with that spelling so plex must be auto matching it. You could try and unmatch the album & artist or even add them on musicbrainz.

They aren’t in it, but it also isn’t matched in Plex, at least what it says. Doesn’t give me the option to fix the match, just match it.

Here is a screen grab of what Plex loaded after the Plex Dance , and also the ID-Tag details. Here is a link to the Logs: Plex Logs Link [Screenshot 2026-07-10 131833] [Screenshot 2026-07-10 131805]

So I cannot be 100% sure as I’m a linux guy and windows is completely alien to me. However … Jul 10, 2026 13:15:04.171 [436] DEBUG - Performing a scan with 'Plex Music' (language: en-US virtual: 0). Jul 10, 2026 13:15:04.171 [436] DEBUG - * Scanning F:\Music\Vitruvia\Broken World Jul 10, 2026 13…

[image] the_writing_critic: , but it also isn’t matched in Plex Careful: you probably have only looked at the albums’ matched state. But this is about the artist. Click on the artist name, then look at the context menu of that artist. Do you have “Prefer local metadata” enabled in the proper…

Plex Keeps Auto-Correcting to Wrong Band Name

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dokuro July 10, 2026, 4:28pm 4

Would you mind posting a screenshot of the tags for one of the tracks off the album and how the files are named on disk ? Server logs would also be helpful after doing a plex dance of the album.

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