Use ID3 tags for MP3 Music files and MP4 Music Video Files

[kahilzinger]

I have been looking for something similar to this in the forum as well as on the new feature requests but most everything has closed out after their 90 days.

I have taken a lot of effort to make sure my embedded ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags on my music files and MP4 Music Video files are accurate. Yet, no matter how many times I rescan my music library, it does not seem to pull this information.

I read where it recommends a format of %artist%/%album%/%Track% for figuring out the information. Well, I did not set that up and there are plenty of albums out there that have tracks from numerous artists, so that gets to be kind of a tough thing to do. My library started from back in Windows Media player days and it is structured as %Album%/%TrackNumber% - %Artist% - %TrackTitle%. And I have embedded album art, genre, and just about everything else I could on my 41,000+ MP3 music files. And I have done the embedding only for my 9600+ music video files. (Before you ask, all legally purchased.)

A ton of media players out there read these tags. It seems to me that Plex should be able to do so, too, if the code would be added to do it.

Music Videos seems like a cross between Movies and Music and that format should probably use a mixture of the two as far as technology. Granted, I imagine much of the Plex user base does not use that type of media. It comes in really handy for parties.

[beckfield]

There is an existing request for improved support of embedded music tags. Rather than splitting votes over several threads, it’s best to add your comments and vote there.

[kahilzinger]

@kahilzinger

I have been looking for something similar to this in the forum as well as on the new feature requests but most everything has closed out after their 90 days.

I have taken a lot of effort to make sure my embedded ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags on my music files and MP4 Music Video files are accurate. Yet, no matter how many times I rescan my music library, it does not seem to pull this information.

I read where it recommends a format of %artist%/%album%/%Track% for figuring out the information. Well, I did not set that up and there are plenty of albums out there that have tracks from numerous artists, so that gets to be kind of a tough thing to do. My library started from back in Windows Media player days and it is structured as %Album%/%TrackNumber% - %Artist% - %TrackTitle%. And I have embedded album art, genre, and just about everything else I could on my 41,000+ MP3 music files. And I have done the embedding only for my 9600+ music video files. (Before you ask, all legally purchased.)

A ton of media players out there read these tags. It seems to me that Plex should be able to do so, too, if the code would be added to do it.

Music Videos seems like a cross between Movies and Music and that format should probably use a mixture of the two as far as technology. Granted, I imagine much of the Plex user base does not use that type of media. It comes in really handy for parties.

Thank you!