I want to use a Plex Premium Music library for its neat features, like artist bios, album reviews, etc, and I also want to use its album art feature to download options. I want smart mixes, and I want the ability to match things on will.
What I don’t want it to do is wrongly replace the years on the music I’ve spent hours manually tagging. And no matter how much I prioritise the Local Media Assets for Artists and Albums in server settings, it will not do so in a Premium Library.
I am using embedded tags.
For example, if I have a 1990s original album from a band, I’m using the example of The La’s EP, “The La’s”, it will ignore my agents settings and match it to a rerelease/deluxe edition without any setting in PMS being set to allow it to do that, to my knowledge.
It ignores my agent setting for artists too… Ignoring the artist.jpg and background.jpg included in the subfolder. Which are painstakingly customised.
I am not manually rematching my 600+ GB music library to work around this issue, despite how badly I want the premium features. I want Premium Music Libraries not to screw with metadata when my agents are telling it not to.
Making a basic library fixes both of these issues.
Here’s two pics of the same library with and without Plex Premium:
Basic Library Premium Library
I am having this exact same issue. I have all my albums named with the catalog number or issue in the title and the basic library keeps that format, premium does not. Is there a way to fix that? Everything is set to local assets.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
some additional info
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
Important: after making changes to the file names, the folder structure or the embedded tags of files which are already added into Plex, you need to perform the Plex Dance
or Plex won’t incorporate your changes.
(with music, you can omit step 4 of the Dance)
Thanks for the quick response. I checked my files and I believe everything is tagged properly. I sort by album artist in MusicBee so all of those tags are there. I also have all of the album art embedded in the file. Again, everything shows up perfectly in basic, it’s only premium where Plex ignores the embedded data for internet providers.
Did you notice the checkbox in the library properties ‘use embedded tags’?
Yes, I have checked that as well. I’ve tried not having Gracenote look for album reviews as well but that didn’t fix the issue. The only thing I can think of is that I’m scanning the files from a remote computer. Would that have any effect on scanning embedded metadata?
@gillson said:
The only thing I can think of is that I’m scanning the files from a remote computer. Would that have any effect on scanning embedded metadata?
No, I don’t think so.
Can you show me a list of which metadata are embedded?
kinda like this: (this is mp3tag )
Sure, I will have to do that when I get home. Thanks!
I had about 100 albums without album artist and that’s what was being read first. Everything is working great now. Thanks!
