# Weirdest music metadata identification problem!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** server-qnap, library-management\ **Created:** [June 10, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/weirdest-music-metadata-identification-problem/939547 "2026-06-10T18:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@Chumbo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Chumbo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/weirdest-music-metadata-identification-problem/939547/1 "2026-06-10T18:17:54Z")
This is really weird, never had anything like it before… I have an album - **Clarence Penn - Dali in Cobble Hill (2012)** which Plex refuses to identify correctly! It always comes up as **Jesse Van Ruller - Dali in Cobble Hill (2012)**! Yet, Jesse van Ruller is nowhere in the files/folder’s names or tags!? (however I do have lots of albums by JVR) My embedded tags are correct and I’ve done the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064), Fix Match, Refresh Metadata AND renamed manually the artist under ‘Pencil’/General/Artist but it just reverts automatically back to ‘Jesse Van Ruller’ WTF is going on here!?? 😒 ---
**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/weirdest-music-metadata-identification-problem/939547/2 "2026-06-11T19:40:59Z")
Hav you tried to do a Fix Match on the artist or album? I renamed a single mp3 file and updated its embedded tags and it seemed to work fine. My file path where `Media/Music Test/` is the folder added to library set up. `Media/Music Test/Clarence Penn/Dali in Cobble Hill/01 The B 61.mp3` ![Plex](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/8/e/4/8e455597937ddc471b06ee581d345845d227a718.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@Chumbo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Chumbo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/weirdest-music-metadata-identification-problem/939547/3 "2026-06-11T21:42:22Z")
Thanks for the reply, it’s fixed! You put me on the right track… There’s this thing I do, which is to use the `Artist` tag field to put the artist I’m actually really interested in on that album. I’m a guitarist and I usually use that `Artist` field to put the guitarist on that album. This way I can search Plex for that guitarist and find all the albums he’s played on. Furthermore, I will often create a subfolder named FEATURING where I put all those albums where that guitarist appeared on. So in this case, the album was sorted like: `Audio/Adam Rogers/FEATURING/Clarence Penn - Dali in Cobble Hill (2012)` This works fine for dozens of other artists in my collection, don’t know why this one was so hard to fix but I finally just put it in the root of the `Audio` folder, Plex Danced, and put it back in its original location and now it’s fine…go figure 🙄 For whatever technical reason, this one album got really badly messed up (and JVR wasn’t even the guitarist on that album!) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/weirdest-music-metadata-identification-problem/939547/4 "2026-09-09T21:42:24Z")
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