Server Version#: 1.22.3.4523 Player Version#: 4.57.2 Can someone help me out? I haven’t been able to get anywhere with this for a long time. Unless I edit metadata in Plex’s interface, it completely ignores file metadata for music files. Here is the file in Windows Explorer. It has a title, it …

Edit your library > advanced > and check use local assets and prefer local assets. Also in settings > agents move local assets to the top of the list then refresh metadata

I have these settings: [image] [image] Whether I refresh metadata or just re-add the library it doesn’t seem to help.

Plex has no support for multiple artists. Equally important to metadata is the hierarchical storage into subfolders. Where is it located? What kind of meta tags is used in the file? It should be ID3v2. Remove APE and other obsolete ones. Forget the Windows file properties. They don’t convey the …

Looks like ID3v2 after all. Does anything look off here? [image]

Which folder level has been added to your music library? Make a test by removing all track artists but one. The “Album” meta tag is blank. Not good. Fill it with sensible content. It must be identical in all tracks of a particular album. To see all meta tags, use this icon: [mp3tag_edit_tvshow…

Weird.. I think that < blank > tag is a bug. I just inspected it again without changing anything and it was populated. [image] I actually did what you recommended – wrote only 1 artist to each file and saved, then refreshed metadata… Now it looks correct, though I’m not quite sure why: The albu…

Check if this album is present on Musicbrainz.org

Yeah Plex does not support multiple artists, so the only Artist it picks up in your case will be Derek Duke (the first one). Plex does support multiple genres, although only on the album level, not individual genres per track. This problem that Plex doesn’t pick up the track names the first time a…

Well, the album does not exist per se, because it’s a custom compilation. I stitched the tracks together from game files and put them into an album because the music is not available in any other format. But what confuses me is what caused the embedded album art to be displayed correctly. At any ra…

After solving my issues and posting it in another thread, my bet is that it’s that dot in the album name that’s also in the path. Take it out or replace it with a simple - and I bet this works fine. Also make sure that all your apostrophes are the ones you can type on the keyboard and not a Unicode …

Plex refuses to use local metadata

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jwaltrip4 August 6, 2021, 4:35am 13

That is called the “plex dance”

And you only need to move it to a folder outside of thr library

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Plex refuses to use local metadata

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