@Dr_Tone “… it seems the issue is when you have multiple versions of an album and using your own tags and your own album art. On one or more of the multiple versions of the album it leaves the art blank.”. Agree completely - leading to manual album by album refresh of metadata in my case as well as, even with embedded artwork, having to resort to the “choose an image” in poster selection for that album. This process seems to work, temporarily only., for me.
I found it a temporary fix as well, but have now discovered that “Fix Match” seems to really fix those particular albums. Give it a try.
It’s sad the “plex music” scanner is this broken.
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Thanks @Dr_Tone. I will try this (have used it sparingly in the past). A fair bit of what I have in my collection is custom made collections to which I have associated custom artwork/tagging etc so not certain whether fix match will work on those well. Thanks.
Ok be careful with fix match, it started combining certain unique versions of albums into one with doubled tracks.
1 step forward and 3 steps back, brutal!
Thanks again @Dr_Tone - am continuing to find meta data completely inconsistent across apps, across servers that are pointed to the same meta tagged libraries, and from day to day following scanning etc. I find myself engaged in an unending process of refreshing meta data on either artisit of album level daily, manually. If only there were an effective and complete override to allow only local meta data govern.
/Music <- library points here
/AlbumArtist
/Album Title
1. Track Artist - Track Title.mp3
...
This, right here, is the problem. Plex depends upon file system organization to achieve what metadata scanning can (and should) do. Of course, I’m saying this as someone who has never been a part of the Plex dev teams involved… but I am saying this as someone who has been part of professional dev teams since '95. This is a design decision that forces a burden, and I would say undue burden, on the end user.
Plex should be indifferent to the FS structures employed. Those are end user concerns; let the end user organize a FS in whatever manner they wish I point to MediaMonkey as a much better example of how a library can and should be scanned, maintained, and organized.
I love Plex for what it does with respect to making my media available in so many ways. It’s truly lovely. However, the library itself? In definite need of a database expert.
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Checking back in with those who are struggling with this issue. The issues described in this topic continue for me daily…Thanks.
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how do we get the attention of the data modeller?
Totally with you on the Roon remote access. Plexamp is a great placeholder, but I would like the metadata elasticity which Roon excels at.
Dude, this is so wrecked 
. Google is kicking me off the Google Play Music platform and Youtube Music is Trash. Decided to migrate to Plex and PlexAMP. 99% of all my Music was just dumped under the same artist “Various Artists”. Granted I had not finished organizing my music during the first scan, but I’ve finished organizing music at least by Artist (Google sucks and just downloads 2K mp3 files all in one folder). I cannot refresh metadata, rescan files, anything to get it to fix the terrible mess that is Plex Music . I don’t even get the ability to fix match anything
I hope Plex team gets a handle on this. I need this to work because other platforms have finally all let me down and I’m going to have to host my own.
OK, I’ve found a solution. You can delete the library (which doesn’t delete your files). Organize the Media in folders per artist, then album. Add the music library back, but do not link it to the music folder. Then edit the library settings to allow pulling information from the file’s embedded metadata instead of only using the plex music scanner. Add the folder to the Library and boom all my stuff started popping up with correct Artists, Albums, Track numbers, artwork, etc.
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Scanning is still a flaming piece of crap.
FLAC
|->Black Sabbath
|-> Live Evil [Disc 1]
|-> Live Evil [Disc 2]
FLAC HD
|->Black Sabbath
|->Live Evil [HD]
Shows up as 2 live Evil Albums. Live Evil [Disc 1] and Live Evil [HD]. [HD] includes the tracks from HD and Disc 2. Sigh!
Folder structure is perfect. Tags are perfect. Plex gives me no way to split the albums apart now, that used to be a feature. FFS.
Couldn’t agree more. Needs to be an option to bypass all Plex dependant scanning and permit tagging by user priority without interference by Plex tagging protocols, in my view.
Combine the non-HD Live Evil tracks (Disc 1 and 2) into one folder named just “Live Evil”, and rename each track to include disc number, track and title, with this sample template:
Disc 2 - 04 - Paranoid.flac
Alternatively, you can dump the concept of separate discs and just rename the tracks to use full numerical order, from 1 to 14.
Afterward, dump the old empty folders, rescan and hopefully that should fix this. You can probably leave the HD folder alone since it seems to be scanning properly.
(I’m not saying Plex shouldn’t handle it better, just looking at solutions for the problem at hand)
This is one example I have about 12k albums, I’m not changing things for Plex’s idiosyncrasies when every other software on the planet gets it right.
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