For Classical music why can the Classical tags not be utilized in Plex Music? Composer Conductor Orchestra Soloists Period Style Instrument Classical music is different than modern as the composers may have been dead for hundreds of years and their music is performed by modern day performers (Con…

A very popular question: [image] Tag support for ROBUST music library organization Feature Suggestions This is a request for comprehensive support of the ID3/Vorbis/etc. tags that are necessary for truly meaningful and complete organization of music libraries, both classic…

Thanks… just casted my vote. You articulated my request much better than I could have. Would also like to see better integration of Plex Music and embedded tags. A way to use both would be great.

If you configure Plex to prefer local metadata , Plex will use embedded tags where it finds them, and fill in from online sources. I was told by Plex’s co-founder that, when the ‘prefer local metadata’ checkbox is unchecked, Plex will look online first, and fill in from embedded tags (but only for t…

Good to know… so if you had your own tag it would not be recognized? I was told by Plex’s co-founder that, when the ‘prefer local metadata’ checkbox is unchecked, Plex will look online first, and fill in from embedded tags (but only for those tags that Plex uses). I just tested this. It doesn’t …

If it finds the tag online (and ‘prefer local…’ is unchecked), it will use the tag from online. That checkbox merely reverses the order Plex follows. The exceptions are Genre and Album Art. There are specific settings in the Library Edit > Advanced page for these. You can choose online or embedd…

Ok, that makes more sense with the behavior I’m seeing. There are a lot of artists where it is finding metadata online as the biography will be filled in but no other metadata such as Genres, Styles, Moods, Country, etc. and my Genres are still not used. I prefer the Plex metadata overall but I wis…

So to clarify, In the Music Library Advanced menu if I set Genres to “Embedded Tags” rather than “Plex Music,” leave “Prefer Local Metadata” unchecked, it will use my Genres and any other metadata (styles, moods, etc) it finds online. My Genres will be used along with online metadata for the other t…

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