Plex Media Server is not importing "Record Label" from FLAC "PUBLISHER" (or any other medatada format)

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As stated - Record Label doesn’t seem to be imported from any metadata source.

There are some posts from several years ago discussing how Record Label is - or will be - populated by metadata, supposedly from TPUB (id3) field for MP3’s, and no mention is made of the equivalent FLAC field, “PUBLISHER”. Neither seem to be importing for me; I have thousands of FLAC and a few hundred MP3 - many with TPUB (id3) / PUBLISHER (flac) set - and I have no Record Label data whatsoever. I’ve had to add it manually. It seems like a bug that the metadata is not imported when available.

Server Version#: 1.13.9.5456
Player Version#: 3.73.2

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Plex uses the ‘copyright’ meta tag to import the record label from, AFAIK.

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Is there a document somewhere detailing all of the mappings? Because if there is, it’s very hard to find - and if there’s not, there should be…

copyright seems like the wrong place to pull this from - it’s meant for a full copyright message (like (c) 2018 Label-Name Inc.)

For reference: https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Tag_Mapping#Miscellaneous and https://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html

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It looks like Plex doesn’t read the record label at all from flac files. And all other files which use Vorbis comments as meta tags.

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I see, this makes sense based on what I’m experiencing.

There are three common tags from which this could be most appropriately pulled from:

LABEL, ORGANIZATION and PUBLISHER

MP3Tag by default maps anything in PUBLISHER (internal MP3Tag tag) to ORGANIZATION in Vorbis Comments, so when this is implemented, I figure it would be best to have a hierarchy - LABEL > PUBLISHER > ORGANIZATION (read as: LABEL takes precedence over everything, then PUBLISHER, then ORGANIZATION)

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