First of all, thanks for your software, it is really a good thing, one of the few I was happy to pay the fee for.
I have now an issue, I have all my music on my server at home and Plex is serving it nicely. But, why it does not write the changes to the ID3 tags?!?
I have been editing all songs that my wife gave me, using the Plex library, they are with Chinese name (and I am not chinese so imagine my trouble). She then made a small mistake and copied the files back to the laptop (she did cut-paste), when she put them back, Plex rescanned and… I have to redo everything again…
Well, beside my stupid situation, imagine a library where you want to copy a part out to another system (where for some reason you have no Plex). you have to redo all the edit… sorry to say, but that is the paramount of stupid.
I understand that you rely on a database and not on the tags, but why not updating the tags when changes are done. At least it capitalize the work done… Or at least, give us the option to do that with an option in the settings.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
signed : a Plex Pass customer
Plex has always made it a policy to not modify your media files in any way, other than to allow deletion of files in very limited circumstances.The recommendation is to use a tag editing application to maintain the ID3 tags in your files.
I also had the same situation, where hand edited in Plex a couple hundred names but then had to restore my harddrive for other reasons and all this effort was lost. As there is a terabyte of MP3 files finding what was changed not easy, thousands of directories and files here…
What would be useful is a simple checkbox in Advanced settings somewhere that would allow the user to set their policy as wanting Plex to pass through changes and modify the metadata in the source… Pleeeze??
This seems trivial to implement and would potentially make most of your customer base happy…
As an update am restoring my metadata for the server and there are 313,722 files, of which there is updated MP3 info in perhaps a few thousand. Would be really nice to just push that back into the MP3 files so if the database goes south at some point in the future could rebuild and have back all the work that hand editing did to clean up the Tags…
Certainly have a policy to not do this unless the user is warned and such, but hey some of us users might know how it works and want to change things! Thanks again for any reply or new feature…
I, for one, do not want Plex to modify my tags. Plex can’t even read changed/updated tags yet. There’s no way I’m going to trust it to modify my tags.
There are lots of programs you can use to modify your music tags… Musicbrainz Picard for example.
Plex is a media presenting application. Plex should not touch or change the media files in any way, especially if the media files are hosted on the UNIX/Linux system where ownership and privileges need to be maintained. For those who “might know how it works”, there are tons of other ways to do this.
I know there is a utility on Github somewhere that will hardcode the data from Plex to the files I am currently looking for that post for you. But in your case it might be better to tag the files by hand with something like Tagscanner… https://www.xdlab.ru/en/
