It’s the opposite, at least it is in my eyes. If I’ve Prefer local metadata enabled then my tags should take precedence over everything else. That’s the point I’m making in this thread. My perfectly tagged files matching exactly a release in musicbrainz end up unmatched in plex. Ideally, that should not happen and as a workaround in this example, I needed to adjust the tags and the folder structure just to get it to match.
I might run a test with Prefer local metadata disabled and see how things turn out. I’ll want to do this on a fresh/clean server to ensure clean results so will see if I can get some time to do that! Last time I done that which was a while ago (maybe 12-18 months ago) results where not great which is why I use embedded metadata.
Exactly. With my 8,000+ albums this has happened a couple of times, maybe 20 or 30 albums. It not that many overall but it enough to annoy me. I just wish I could hard code somehow a direct match between plex and musicbrainz, like I can do today with tv shows and movies using matching ids to tmdb. I’d previously been told this was done using the embedded mbid tags from musicbrainz (ID Matching and Music Libaries - #4 by drzoidberg33) but as we have shown here that is not true, or at least not always true.
