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I can’t make out from previous posts if this is a known bug or is it just me.
If you use a tag editor to a track already in the library to change something and then run Refresh Metadata nothing changes. Prefer local metadata is selected.
Thanks.
can you provide logs from when you are performing a refresh so perhaps we can better determine what is or is not happening?
Please mention what “something” that is.
Please describe what you are changing and what you are expecting to change afterwards.
I changed the cover art of a track.
Specifically StoreMe\A\A-Cads - Hungry for Love.mp3.
Attached is the log file, verbose on, selected that track and asked for Refresh Metadata.
Plex Media Server.log (2.2 MB)
I see also that the Artist field is empty for all tracks, even thought the tag is filled in.
If in Plex I Edit a track I can type it in.
I see that the cover art is only displayed in Views that display album art.
Refreshing the metadata does in fact display the artwork.
Apologies for that.
However, the only way to get the Artist field filled is to enter it manually, track by track.
Actually, if all your files are named after the same pattern, you can use software to extract the artist name from the file name and then put it into the meta tag.
mp3tag is one excellent example.
It has a feature named “Convert - Filename → Tag”
The pattern matching string of %artist% - %title% should extract both track title and artist tags.
But still, with this “dumping ground” of single tracks in an index-letter named folder you probably won’t be very happy with Plex.
A hierarchical folder structure works much better in Plex: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/
All the tags are filled in using Mp3Tag: Title, Artist, Album, Album Artist, Cover picture. Not all cover pics yet.
And where I have complete albums each album is in its own folder. Or even if I have a few tracks by one artist I put them in a folder. (And the alphabet is a hierarchy above the albums.) But some tracks are the only track by that artist that I have, and creating folders for 1 track seems excessive.
And that is my complaint - even though the Artist tag is filled in, it is not read in by Plex. Scan or Refresh Metadata. (If I fill it in manually, Refresh Metadata does not clear it, so it would seem that it doesn’t even look at it.)
An experiment:
/A folder. Make sure to enable the “Prefer local meta tags” checkbox before you hit “Create”.What happens?
P.S. a few music-related fixes will be in PMS v1.25.9, so you might wanna re-evaluate once this version becomes available to you.
Or maybe wait until 1.25.10 which will unlock a completely rewritten music scanner: [Plex Media Server] Forum Preview for Music Metadata
Used all settings as suggested. (Was doing that anyway.)
Created A\Adam Faith\Adam Faith - What do you Want.mp3
All 4 tags are filled in.
Added A\ as a library and A\Adam Faith\ as a library.
In both libraries the Artist field is empty.
In my actual library not a single Artist field is filled in, regardless of the folder structure. Single Letter of the alphabet or letter\ArtistName or letter\ArtistName\AlbumName.
Tried on a different physical drive. No difference.
Could you show me on a screen shot what you mean by that?
(full app screen please, not just a cropped area)
Please add the column “Album Artist” to the table view.
You might want to switch to the hosted web app at https://app.plex.tv
Tried the hosted eb app. No change.
Is “Adam Faith” the actual album title? It sounds more like this is the artist?
Could you make an overview of embedded meta tags, similar to this one?
Because there is no Artist displayed, with tracks that are not part of an album I set the Album value to the artist name. So that I at least see an artist name in the list.
Screenshots showing changing Album name.
Please don’t fill in the album tag if the album is unknown.
Either way. A future PMS version will bring some revamped scanner and agent code. It is worth revisiting this issue again after that.
If you have a spare machine or a VM, you could try this preview release (do not use it on your regular Plex server!) [Plex Media Server] Forum Preview for Music Metadata
1.) Yes to both.
2.) The artist name appeared under album title is because I put it there. It is the only way I can see who the artist is.
My folder structure is:
First-letter-of-artist-name\Artist-name\Album-name
I work with folders when looking for tracks. I know I went B and then Beatles so when I see tracks I know it is the Beatles, even though there is no ArtistName.
But I have hundreds of instances where I only listen to 1 track by that artist, so I only put that track in the library. The rest of the (unwanted) tracks are stored elsewhere. And I can’t possibly create a folder for each and every one of these tracks, so I put the ArtistName in AlbumName so that I at least see something.
As for the improved version, I have a nasty something suspicion that there is something about my PC that stops it working, and neither will the new one… Why nobody else?
