Reverting from custom to file metadata

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I am using Plex Web and trying to undo some metadata on a group of Christmas songs.

I have a Music library pointing to a folder of Christmas music. Sometime in the past I changed some of the fields in the edit to custom text. I have deleted all of the files from this folder using Plex and emptied the trash. I renamed the folder. All of the files themselves contain the correct metadata. No matter what I try when I give Plex the folder of files it still uses the custom changes I made in the past. How do I get the batch of songs to use the file metadata (or find it online) I don’t care which just not what I had put in previously?

Thank you,

Linda

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Remove that path from the edit library section. wait for that to finish, optimize your db, clean your bundles and then re-add the folder to the library path. It is a variant of the Plex Dance since you cannot completely empty a folder when doing the dance.

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Thank you so much! That was easy and it is still loading the music but it looks like it fixed it. TY