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

[solitaryreign]

There was an issue recently with that tag which was fixed, did you refresh metadata after you updated? Works fine for me, I don’t use it though.

Plex Music Agent Not Honoring Embedded Album Artist Sort Tag

Server Version#: 1.27.0.5849 Plex Music agent/scanner is no longer honoring embedded sort tags. I have all of my music tagged with embedded tags (90% .flac; 10% .mp3) and at a minimum all include track name, album name, artist, album artist, artist sort and album artist sort. I have my music library set to “Prefer local metadata”, and previously Plex would properly import the “album artist sort” tag from my files to the “sort artist” data field in Plex. I recently performed “refresh metadata” …

As for AC/DC, not sure why it showed you the artist next to the tracks before. I’ve never seen that. I don’t use .m4a files though, only .flac