Server Version#: 4.157.0 I have recently added my extensive mp3 library to my plex server. The ID3 tag on my files simply holds artist and song title, all other fields are empty (at least to me). As far as I can tell, all files show up in the library. Now, I’d like for plex to help me with some …

Plex Dance is bookmarked for future reference. It seems I found the issue. The files are only tagged with Artist, not Album Artist. Or rather, Album Artist is set to Various Artists. Manually editing so that Album Artist = Artist and the scanner works perfectly…

With Prefer metadata off, you are relying solely on file name matching. Try enabling it and see if that works better.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it didn’t make any difference.

[image] doggen75: Manually editing so that Album Artist = Artist and the scanner works perfectly… Do not blindly apply this strategy to each and every song. If you have a sampler/compilation-type of album, the Album Artist of all songs on that album must be set to the same name.

Plex Music agent gives no results

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dbirch January 9, 2026, 12:46am 4

Perform the plex dance, and see what that does with it enabled

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Plex Music agent gives no results

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