Plex Music Library Mess - Disable Agents?

Hello,

I built a new NAS and am trying to get my music library back the way it was before. I was stuck on an old version of Plex Server due to the age of my previous NAS.

Now that I am up-to-date, I am having a miserable time getting Plex to just use my MP3 tag info. It keeps trying to match my albums with online sources, and I have done everything I can to stop it. I can’t seem to diable these agents like last.fm, plex premium music, etc.

I have exhaustively tagged all my MP3s the way I like them. I have embedded awesome album covers. I have moved “Local Media Assets” to the top of every Artist and Album agent list. I don’t need or want these agent services, as they keep f’n up my presentation, mixing up my albums, and putting wrong covers on them.

How do I dumb this thing down and turn off all “Matching” for my music library? I can’t uncheck the boxes for these agents in Artists and Albums because the boxes are grayed out. I’ve stopped my library scan, disabled everything I can find, and when I add my MP3 library back, the Plex Server keeps seeking out this crap and overriding my MP3 tags.

Thanks

Edit your music library
go to the ‘Advanced’ tab
check ‘Use embedded tags’

Then remove all albums of an artist
update library
empty trash
put the artist back
update library again

See if this achieves what you want.

If you don’t have a Music / Artist / Albums / Tracks hierarchy, you won’t be happy with a ‘Premium Music’ library.
Create a regular music library in this case.


If you really want to disable all external data sources (even for Artist infos)
(doing so will prevent you from using the new ‘Radios’ in Plexamp and Roku)
you create a regular music library
and then change the ‘Agent’ on the ‘Adanced’ tab to ‘Personal Media Artists’

see also

multi-disc albums
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849

handling singles and EP’s
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611

possible ‘side car’ files for music
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1319703/#Comment_1319703

soundtracks and ‘various artists’
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1472799/#Comment_1472799