Possible to disable last.fm for music?

[OttoKerner]

Edit your music library
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289266-editing-libraries/

go to the ‘Advanced’ tab
set as ‘Agent’ = ‘Personal Media Artists’

Put a check mark into ‘Use embedded tags’

see
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/
and
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381093-identifying-music-media-using-embedded-metadata/

and maybe

multi-disc albums

Organizing Music - Soundtracks and Various Artists (Hit collections)

I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums: ===== 1.“Various Artists” is the usual choice for ‘Sampler’ style albums. There may be exceptions for ‘collaboration’ albums which are credited to all participating artists on the album cover. 2. use the title of the single as it appears on the cover. You can augment that information with (CDM) or (single) or (Maxi) or (EP) as it fits. If it is a genuine release, Gracenote should have no problem identifying it. …

possible ‘side car’ files for music

Music Album artwork

Little tip: If you have lots of bootlegs etc. you want to bring your embedded metatags into order first. Then you need to have the Local Media Assets agent in top position. I wouldn’t trust last.fm to fetch correct info about bootlegs and special editions of albums, like those recent expanded re-releases of Zappa albums. Put as much info into the meta tags as possible. Put a cover art inside the album folder and you should be good. Makes sure to set at least ‘AlbumArtist’ and ‘AlbumTitle’ to…