The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from each other. We strongly recommend separating movie and television content into separate main directories. For instance, you might use something like this:
/Media
/Movies
movie content
/Music
music content
/TV Shows
television content
Warning!: Plex will do its best to appropriately find and match content. However, a failure to separate content such as movies and TV shows may result in unexpected or incorrect behavior.
The information in this article pertains to music libraries using our default Plex Music
agent/scanner combo. This information may not work if using other scanners/agents for a music library.
Local Lyrics
Supported Lyric Formats
The following formats are supported for external/sidecar lyric files:
- LRC (
.lrc
) – timed lyric file using the LRC format - TXT (
.txt
) – plain text file with lyrics
Note: Lyrics embedded in track metadata (such as ID3 tags) are not currently supported.
Related Page: Wikipedia: LRC (file format)
Naming and Organization
If you have your own lyric files, you can keep them alongside your actual music tracks. Lyrics are identified by using specific naming and must be placed in the same directory as the corresponding, identically-named music track.
Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumber - TrackName.ext
Where .ext
is one of:
.lrc
(timed lyrics file).txt
(basic, untimed lyrics)
(Some operating systems such as Windows may hide your file extensions by default.)
Tip!: The lyric file must be in the same directory as the corresponding music track and must be named identically, aside from the file extension.
Examples
Here are some examples of adding local lyrics.
/Music
/Bob Schneider
/I'm Good Now
01-Come With Me Tonight.mp3
01-Come With Me Tonight.lrc
02-Medicine.mp3
02-Medicine.txt
03-A Long Way To Get.mp3
/Bob Schneider
/Lonelyland
01-Metal and Steel.mp3
01-Metal and Steel.txt
02-Big Blue Sea.mp3
Local Artwork for Artists and Albums
Naming and Organization
Artist-related artwork should be placed in the “artist” folder, while album-related artwork goes in the “album” folder.
Music/Artist/artworkfile.ext
Music/Artist/Album/artworkfile.ext
Supported files types for artwork are:
- .jpg
- .jpeg
- .png
- .tbn
Artist posters
This should generally be a simple “headshot” portrait of the individual artist or group. Square artwork is expected. The following filenames are supported:
- artist
- artist-cover
- artist-default
- artist-folder
- artist-poster
- cover
- default
- folder
- poster
Artist Background
Artist background art is often a more stylish photograph of the individual artist or group. Landscape (e.g. 16:9) artwork is expected. The following filenames are supported:
- art
- artist-art
- artist-backdrop
- artist-background
- artist-fanart
- backdrop
- background
- fanart
Album Poster
The cover art for an album. Square artwork is expected. The following filenames are supported:
- album
- cover
- default
- folder
- poster
Album Background
“Background” art for an album. This is not common to have. If no separate background image is provided, then the “artist” background will be used instead. The following filenames are supported:
- art
- backdrop
- background
- fanart
Examples
/Music
/Pink Floyd
artist-poster.jpg
artist-background.jpg
/The Wall
cover.jpg
background.jpg
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