For some reason plex does not identify a specific music album (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by Foni@lemmy.zip to c/plex@lemmy.ca

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The album in question is "Breach" by Twenty One Pilots, the album exists in last.fm (https://www.last.fm/music/twenty+one+pilots/Breach) in discog (https://www.discogs.com/master/3968810-Twenty-One-Pilots-Breach) and in musicbrainz (https://musicbrainz.org/release/1d9a4160-41f8-4c90-8116-82765d736408).

Of course I can edit some data manually, but for some reason the system does not identify it and I would like to know why or if I'm doing something wrong or if i can do something to fix it?

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Short answer:

Plex is just bad at random items.

For whatever reason there's just some things it will refuse to identify correctly and it needs done manually.

There are settings where you can change what source it uses to identify. I don't use it for music, so I'm not sure if last.fm is an option, but as far as I know there's no way to set it up to check one place first than another if no result, you have to manually cycle.

So it really is just easiest to manually add the info the rare times you run into it.

[-] Foni@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you very much for your prompt response.

Last.fm is an option for the data , but it affects your entire library and you constantly get a warning that the source is outdated and will stop working soon or something like that. I don't understand why, last.fm is far from abandoned and even Plex lets you connect your usage statistics to the site to receive suggestions.

If you don't use Plex for music, I guess you won't be able to help me with some data I don't know how to edit manually, like the most popular songs on the album. Thanks in any case.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

You're better off googling how if you still haven't.

It should be the same way you edit it for other media which I do use Plex for. I just don't for music specifically.

But I can't stress enough that if it's just happening to one item, don't put too much effort I to this.

Some things Plex just doesn't recognize randomly. It is insanely rare and I think it's happened to me twice in a dozen years? And my Plex is large bro

Youll probably never have this problem again, so just Google how to manual make Plex recognize it, even if you have to type all the song titles out. It'll take 15 minutes and you'll probably never have to do it for anything else

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