Plex Music agent not respecting "Prefer local metadata" option for track artists

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.27.2.5929
Player Version#: 4.85.1

Since updating to the latest server version, it seems the Plex Music agent has stopped respecting the “Prefer local metadata” option for track artists.

Example:

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In this album, I have all of the track artists set to Tomita Lab, with no featuring artists included, as I don’t like separate artist entries being scrobbled to my Last.fm. The Plex scanner has changed all track artists to what I assume is from Musicbrainz, which is the Japanese name for Tomita Lab, with the featuring artists included.

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Having the same issue since a recent update, switched to a different player while I wait for a fix (also for Last.FM purposes).

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Reported a similar issue a few weeks ago. Not sure if the the plex mods are aware of it yet.

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Thanks! I had tried seeing if anyone had the same issue but couldn’t find any threads. After making my first post I went through my Last.fm scrobbles and saw the issue started occurring sometime in early June for me. I haven’t been listening to a lot of albums with featuring artists lately, so I hadn’t noticed until now.

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Can you PM me track 2 so I can test it?

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Sure thing!

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Got the file and it worked as expected for me.

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I wonder if maybe it’s only happening when the full album is there? Is the album still “Matched” even with only one song there? Are you able to manually match it if not?

I just refreshed metadata on mine now, and still have the incorrect artist tags, even though “Prefer local metadata” is checked:

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Ah. Mine was unmatched. When it gets matched, then I see the same as you. Let me look into this.

Edit - Unmatching the album shows the embedded data again.

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So for now we can just unmatch our albums to use local metadata? Would that cause other issues? I might just wait for a fix

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Unmatching an album will change the guid for the album and tracks so you would lose the play history for those items. I can’t think of anything else that would change.

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It seems that’s what the users in the other thread are experiencing–metadata comes back after unmatching. Nice to know as a temporary workaround, but would love to see local metadata restored even with matching, as I do appreciate the matching filling in other info/tags on albums for fields my local tags don’t specify.

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I’ve noticed this for a while now and it’s pretty annoying. A few other people have posted about it too. I hope it gets fixed soon.

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Do the tracks have the album artist and artist tag set?

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Not OP, but as someone who is experiencing this same issues — yes. Both tags are set. Prefer local metadata is checked as well

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If anyone can provide sample files it would be much appreciated.

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Sorry, didn’t see this yesterday. PM’ing you the one I sent to MovieFan.Plex now.

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Thanks for the samples. I have a fix in review now, will land in one of the upcoming PMS updates.

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any update on when this will be rolled out?

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Looks like it was just added to the changelog for the latest server beta:

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