Hi all,
Generally enjoying Plex, primarily for music, but battling with a few metadata related things. I think I have prioritised the use of my embedded metadata over whatever crap Plex finds from wherever but things are not perfect.
How do I prevent the artist biographical summary from showing. Not interested.
Especially not interested when half of it relates to the damn license terms of the site it comes from (see screenshot attached). Begging there’s a simple checkbox somewhere to turn this off? If so please advise. If not, please advise of any other method of burning this twaddle in fire.
Also, can someone explain how it might be that song files that have correct and complete embedded metadata can be found by Plex then displayed as being [Unknown Artist][Unknown Album]? This seems like a colossal fail by Plex.
Given that I don’t care about having biographical data for any artist (I know who they are) the idea of manually editing out this stuff is not attractive. Also, perhaps an easy way to do it is to give the user options of what is displayed on the ‘page’ when in Artist view, Album view etc. almost like a WYSIWYG web editor would allow. Biographical date Similar artists
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Also, thanks for the other suggestions but screenshots show I have my house in order in that regard.
Seems buggy to me (interesting to note it has picked up the Year in this example but nothing else)
Thanks trumpy81, I appreciate your responses.
Your first comment seems to confirm that the Use Embedded Tags checkbox appears to do absolutely nothing. Not only does it not seem to give the embedded tags priority (as it would seem to according to the description of the function) but Plex obviously doesn’t seem to fall back on the embedded tags in the case when it can’t find an online match. It’s function is a mystery to me. Curious though that it picked up the year. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Please see screenshots as to settings in Agent section. I have not performed the Plex Dance™ since setting up this library. I shall perform it later. Step 1 needs to remove the files from Plex’s view. Is it sufficient to rename the containing folder and run Scan Library Files?
I have now performed the wretched Plex Dance numerous times, including stopping and starting the Plex Server before re-scanning the files.
It makes no difference. The artists and tracks aren’t found online and the Use Embedded Tags option is ignored by Plex so they continue to be referred to as Unknown Artist and Unknown Album.
Combine this with the answer to my original query about removing stupid 3rd party biographical entries and you can imagine how I’m feeling about Plex right now. As has been noted before by others, that the Plex Dance even exists, or needs to exist, is an issue that the Plex dev should really address. That it appears to not always work only compounds that (yes, I have been reading many threads). That something so simple as prioritising embedded tags over 3rd party metadata sources is completely non-functional is the deal breaker.
Any recommendations for decent music server software out there?
If you absolutely don’t want external metadata, you could switch your music library to use the ‘Personal Media’ agent. Edit your library. go to the ‘Advanced’ tab, ‘Agent’.
However, doing this will also disable the new Library Radio, Artist Radio and Time Travel Radio playlist generators.
So before doing something so drastic, reorder the metadata sources Plex is using:
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
Drag the line ‘Local Media Assets’ to the top of the stack.
Repeat the same under
Settings - Server - Agents - Artists - last.fm
This won’t cure the nonsensical biography texts, but at least it will give your embedded metadata priority over the data from last.fm.
So I removed all of my music files from the Music parent folder. I deleted all the libraries that I had. I created a new Library and pointed it to an empty folder called House Tracks.
I selected Use Embedded Tags and I also selected Personal Media Assets over Last.fm as Agent in the Advanced tab.
I then dragged a bunch of Folders into the House Tracks folder in the Mac Finder and ran Scan Library Files. Files that have complete metadata are still being displayed by Plex as Unknown Artist - Unknown Album.
Then guess what I discovered? All the tracks being tagged in that way were AIF files. Plex no like them. So I converted to ALAC and now they are read correctly.
I’ve deleted all other libraries and am in the process of setting them up by first pointing them to an empty folder ‘Albums’, setting the options as above, and then dragging all the Artist folders in. Plex is currently scanning them. I will report back
Yes, I don’t think Plex is able to read meta data from aiff files.
If you want lossless, your best bet is Flac (or alac, if you have predominantly apple hardware as plex clients).
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