Plex-Meta-Manager/docs/metadata/metadata/music.md

Music Library Metadata

You can have the script edit the metadata of Artists, Albums, and Tracks by adding them to the metadata mapping of a Metadata File.

An example of multiple metadata edits in a music library is below:

metadata:
  "Linkin Park":
    country: "United States of America"
    album_sorting: newest
    albums:
      "Hybrid Theory":
        originally_available: "2000-10-24"
        tracks:
          1:
            user_rating: 5
          "One Step Closer":
            user_rating: 5
      "Meteora":
        originally_available: "2003-03-25"
        album_sorting: newest
        tracks:
          9:
            user_rating: 5
          "Numb":
            user_rating: 5
      "Minutes To Midnight":
        originally_available: "2007-05-14"

Artist

Each artist is defined by the mapping name which must be the same as the artist name in the library unless an alt_title is specified.

Albums

To edit the metadata of a particular Album for an Artist use the albums attribute on its artist.

The mapping name is the album name.

Tracks

To edit the metadata of a particular Track on an Album use the tracks attribute on its album.

The mapping name is the track number on that Album, or the title of the Track.

Metadata Edits

The available attributes for editing artists, albums, and tracks are as follows

Special Attributes

Attribute	Values	Artists	Album	Tracks
alt_title	Alternative title to look for	✅	✅	✅
albums	Mapping to define Albums	✅	❌	❌
tracks	Mapping to define Tracks	❌	✅	❌

• If you know of another Title your item might exist under, but you want it titled differently you can use alt_title to specify another title to look under and then be changed to the mapping name. For Example the Artist Kesha used to be stylized as Ke$ha, and might still be found that way in Metadata results.

  metadata:
    "Kesha":
      alt_title: "Ke$ha"
  

  This would change the name of the default Ke$ha to Kesha and would not mess up any subsequent runs. ``

General Attributes

Attribute	Values	Artists	Album	Tracks
title	Text to change Title	❌	❌	✅
sort_title	Text to change Sort Title	✅	✅	✅
user_rating	Number to change User Rating	✅	✅	✅
critic_rating	Number to change Critic Rating	❌	✅	❌
originally_available	Date to change Originally Available Format: YYYY-MM-DD	❌	✅	❌
record_label	Text to change Record Label	❌	✅	❌
summary	Text to change Summary	✅	✅	✅
track	Text to change Track	❌	❌	✅
disc	Text to change Disc	❌	❌	✅
original_artist	Text to change Original Artist	❌	❌	✅

Tag Attributes

You can add .remove to any tag attribute to only remove those tags i.e. genre.remove.

You can add .sync to any tag attribute to sync all tags vs just appending the new ones i.e. genre.sync.

Attribute	Values	Artists	Album	Tracks
genre	List or comma-separated text of each Genre Tag	✅	✅	❌
collection	List or comma-separated text of each Collection Tag	✅	✅	✅
label	List or comma-separated text of each Label Tag	❌	✅	❌
style	List or comma-separated text of each Style Tag	✅	✅	❌
mood	List or comma-separated text of each Mood Tag	✅	✅	✅
country	List or comma-separated text of each Country Tag	✅	❌	❌
similar_artist	List or comma-separated text of each Similar Artist Tag	✅	❌	❌

Image Attributes

Attribute	Values	Artists	Album	Tracks
url_poster	URL of image publicly available on the internet	✅	✅	❌
file_poster	Path to image in the file system	✅	✅	❌
url_background	URL of image publicly available on the internet	✅	✅	❌
file_background	Path to image in the file system	✅	✅	❌

Advanced Attributes

All these attributes only work with Artists.

Attribute	Values
album_sorting	default Library default oldest Oldest first newest Newest first name Alphabetical