Read artist tag of mp4 file

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: Version 1.20.2.3402
Player Version#: Version 4.34.4

I created a library for a bunch of live music videos and those contain the appropriate artist and title tags.
When I create a library and Plex reads all files, in former server versions (sorry, can’t give you a number here) Plex was reading the artist tag as well which led to a result as this:

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In that current version sadly this cannot be achieved whatsoever :frowning:
Please note that I already followed this guide and checked this checkbox “Prefer local metadata”.

How can I tell Plex to read the tag metadata properly?

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Which scanner and agent are selected in the properties of the library?
Could you post the contents (not the URL!) Plex XML info of this item?

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Both “Plex Movie”.

XML content of one random video file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="9" librarySectionTitle="Musik-Mitschnitte" librarySectionUUID="80b94268-b3fe-4f53-b7e9-01f9e738a843" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1601668829">
<Video ratingKey="6234" key="/library/metadata/6234" guid="local://6234" type="movie" title="Clocks" librarySectionTitle="Musik-Mitschnitte" librarySectionID="9" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/9" summary="" thumb="/library/metadata/6234/thumb/1602494010" art="/library/metadata/6234/art/1602494010" duration="262016" originallyAvailableAt="1900-01-01" addedAt="1546368451" updatedAt="1602494010">
<Media id="8373" duration="262016" bitrate="3294" width="1280" height="720" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="aac" videoCodec="h264" videoResolution="720" container="mp4" videoFrameRate="PAL" optimizedForStreaming="0" audioProfile="lc" has64bitOffsets="0" videoProfile="main">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="8373" key="/library/parts/8373/1546368451/file.mp4" duration="262016" file="/srv/dev-disk-by-label-data/Videos/Musik Mitschnitte/Coldplay/2017 - Live in S&#227;o Paulo/Coldplay - 08 - Clocks.mp4" size="107894284" audioProfile="lc" container="mp4" has64bitOffsets="0" optimizedForStreaming="0" videoProfile="main">
<Stream id="17450" streamType="1" default="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="3160" language="Deutsch" languageCode="ger" bitDepth="8" chromaLocation="left" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" codedHeight="720" codedWidth="1280" colorPrimaries="bt709" colorRange="tv" colorSpace="bt709" colorTrc="bt709" frameRate="25.000" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="720" level="31" profile="main" refFrames="5" streamIdentifier="1" width="1280" displayTitle="720p (H.264)" extendedDisplayTitle="720p (H.264)" />
<Stream id="17451" streamType="2" selected="1" default="1" codec="aac" index="1" channels="2" bitrate="134" language="Deutsch" languageCode="ger" profile="lc" samplingRate="48000" streamIdentifier="2" displayTitle="Deutsch (AAC Stereo)" extendedDisplayTitle="Deutsch (AAC Stereo)" />
</Part>
</Media>
<Extras size="0">
</Extras>
<Related>
</Related>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>
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I assume this is a separate library from your regular movies, right?

Set Scanner to “Plex Movie Scanner”
and Agent to “Personal Media”.

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Actually setting the type of the whole library to “Other videos” instead of “Movies” did the trick!
Scanner is now set to “Plex Video Files Scanner” and Agent to “Personal Media”.

Thank you!

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Using the “Plex Video Files scanner” will prevent you from using local assets and extras, which are handy when you also want to include concert recordings and such, instead of just single songs.

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