Song duration keeps the same after changing the song into an extended version of the same song

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I use Plex music and I had uploaded a .dts audio file, ripped from a dvd. I cut the audio into multiple files (one file per song) and put them in my music folder. Everything worked fine, but I found out that I didn’t cut some songs correctly, so I corrected them. Then I placed the correct songs in the right music folder again and I re-scanned the folder. One song should now be 15 seconds longer, but plex shows the same song duration as before. When I download the file from plex web, I get the correct song, which is 15 seconds longer. I tried a lot to solve this, like changing the name of the files, rescanning the folders again, analyzing the album, refreshing the metadata, but nothing works…
One song also got 1 second longer, but also the duration of this song did not change, it just stops playing 1 second before the end, as the audio file has finished. Can someone help me to let Plex understand that these songs have now a new song duration?

I use a windows server and watch Plex on google chrome at an other windows machine

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Have you tried using ⋮ > Analyze for that album or song?

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Yes, but it did not work unfortunately

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Try removing the files from the Plex server. Rescan your audio library (this may take some time). Empty trash. Re-add files to the folder.

That should hopefully get Plex to forget it ever had those files, so it ought to do a proper analyze of the files as it does the first time.

… Hopefully.

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Good suggestion! But also did not work :(. Even if I create a new second music library and add the files to it, it still keeps the wrong durations…

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How did you “cut” those files?
Plex will rely on certain technical header information in your files… if you e.g. use dd to create a 15-sec sample from a much larger file, opening the file will still display its original length.

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Good idea. Perhaps the file information is messed up. If the same file in a new library is reporting the wrong time, it’s the file itself.

Try remuxing/encoding the files into new files, see if that will correct it.

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