[ale] OT: media box

[Edward Holcroft]

So I discovered something that makes a big difference.  I had already set
Plex to use my Personal Media Artists as DJ suggested, and still
experienced huge amounts of errors. The I discovered that you can select an
artist, cvli on the menu button to the laft of the interface (the three
dots ... ) and click on "Fix incorrect match: at which point it asks
whether you want to use local or last.fm. This has made a HUGE improvement
to the usability of Plex for me.

There are still thousands of files getting slapped under "unknown artist"
or "unknown album" for a reason I still need to figure. But right now Plex
is a lot more useful to me than it was. I'm amazed that this issue is
raised so many times on the Plex forum, but nobody seems to mention this
gem.

I'll report back once I have figured out the unknown artist issue.

ed

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
wrote:

> I will take this as my annual attempt to see if I can get Plex tags
> figured out. Still got it running on my FreeNAS box.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 8:04 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/04/2015 11:30 PM, Edward Holcroft wrote:
>> > A word of warning for those who want to go for straight music archival.
>> I
>> > have wasted a lot of time messing with Plex, purely for music purposes.
>> > Plex for some reason I am unable to fathom does not pull id3 tags, it
>> > insists on using last.fm. Useless to me ... I have spent years ripping
>> my
>> > CD's and perfecting the id3 tags. I don't want it all screwed up by
>> last.fm.
>> >
>> > Plex has such a nice client, I wish they'd wake up on their tagging.
>> >
>>
>> Just switched over to
>> Plex Music Scanner
>>  Personal Media Artists
>>   Use embedded tags
>>
>> That seems to work here.  Maybe I don't understand?
>> What's missing? Plex doesn't show all the info, but it seems to still be
>> inside
>> the files.
>>
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