Does anybody have any issues with any albums/EPs/singles that are matched to the correct item in MusicBrainz, and MusicBrainz shows the release as the correct type of release, but it shows up as the wrong type in Plex?
Specifically, I have the single “Drugs” by the band Falling In Reverse. It is listed as a single on MusicBrainz, and I have it matches in Plex, but on the artist page, it shows this with the albums instead of down in the Singles & EPs section like all the other singles.
Yeah that’s strange. Embedded tags take priority over matched Musicbrainz data, can you check the tag in Picard (or another tag editor), what does it say?
MediaMonkey is what I always use for tagging all my music and videos. It does not have a field to classify things as album, single, etc. I downloaded Picard to take a look and I still don’t see that as a field that’s available to change, though I might be missing it. It is showing ID3v2.3, but so are some of the other singles that are correctly showing up as singles.
Well I guess this isn’t the only EP I have showing up as an album. The artist Aurelio Voltaire has a 4 song EP called Banned On Vulcan. It was labeled as an album in MusicBrainz. I did change it on there to make it an EP, but 2 days after the change went into effect in MusicBrainz, nothing changed in Plex. I even moved the files out of my Plex library, emptied trash, cleaned bundles, moved it back, and re-matched, and it still shows up as an album.
Strangely… even after emptying trash and cleaning bundles, once I put the songs back into Plex, it still remembered my old track ratings. Shouldn’t those steps have cleared everything out so it could act like a completely new thing to Plex?
That is normal. Emptying trash, cleaning bundles etc is for managing metadata etc within plex. Watched/Played status along with ratings are stored in a table which is not nuked by doing a plex dance.
I’ve not used MediaMonkey in years so cannot comment on that, I do use MusicBrainz Picard myself to tag all music within plex. I find this best as their tags play well with plex, especially for matching but other tools should work just fine if your tags are good.
Back to your original question, for the EP which is not grouping for you correctly can you show us what the releasetype tag has ? This is what plex uses for release groupings. I also assume you have Prefer local metadata enabled for your music library if you are using embedded tags.
So neither MediaMonkey or Picard was showing a “releasetype” tag at all. I never knew this could actually be a tag in the files themselves. I always thought Plex was solely basing it on how things were organized on MusicBrainz. It’s still weird that other releases were already showing in the right section of MediaMonkey when they also don’t have a releasetype tag at all.
It took me a minute to figure out Picard. I was not seeing the tag or how to add it before, but I was able to use Picard to add the tag and now after refreshing metadata, they are both showing up in the right place.
I also just tested some things that either aren’t on MusicBrainz at all or I don’t quite like how they’re classified there, and was able to add the tag to change things in Plex. Thanks!
Well fixing those two was great, and I was able to categorize something else as a single and Plex recognized that. There’s a couple things that are not on MusicBrainz (and don’t really belong there), that I tried adding a releasetype of compilation, but they’re still showing up as albums though.
Interesting. Well, I still like like using MediaMonkey for my main tags and I like how easy it is to re-organize files based on the tags, but it looks like I’ll be keeping Picard around to add additional tags once something is all done in MediaMonkey.
