The “matched - maybe matched - unmatched” bug is frustrating. It’s another quirk in Plex music that needs some attention. In the screenshot below, there are 18 unmatched albums when the library is filtered:
However, none of them give me the option to “Match.” The only option is to “Fix Match,” which implies the album has been matched.
Everyone of these albums has in the XML info the guid="mbid://" and parentGuid="mbid://" I mentioned earlier. My theory is that this confuses Plex, and it considers the album/track matched, but not actually matched with the real Plex music. In that case, the XML would have plex://track/ and parentGuid="plex://album/"
This probably is related to another unanswered question I posted - Does the Plex Music scanner refresh metadata and re-match during scheduled maintenance periods?
Since it appears the metadata is not refreshed and there is no attempt to match albums during the maintenance periods, is my only option to actually match all of these albums manually?
I thought that Plex was supposed to read the embedded MusicBrainz ID’s to help match, but it seems it is of little use if the end result is an unmatched album. All of these albums have that data, and are of course available at MusicBrainz.
