Audiobooks Not Adding correctly - Missing in one server, not the other

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have an Audiobook Series comprised of 10 books by one author. I used MP3tag to tag them like I do the MANY (60+) other series I have with no issue.

[I have 2 Plex servers running (for redundancy and also to separate my content from the family’s) reading from my Synology NAS. One server is on a Win10 machine and the other is running from the NAS itself.]

This one book (in this case Book 8) REFUSES to populate in my Windows server but does show up in the NAS listing. I’ve tried everything I can think from the Plex “dance”, to rebooting the windows server. I’ve even converted the files in Book 8 from MP3 to FLAC and WMA with no luck.

Am I going to have to delete the library and start again? Would like to avoid that if possible since I did some custom merging and have many collection tags setup so I thought I’d ask.

Thanks!

Server Version#: Win: 1.9.0.1203-00f2b4d9 Synology: 1.19.3.2764
Player Version#: N/A

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Son of a… Why didn’t I think of that? :grin: Great idea! I’ll test it this evening!

All servers and clients should be up to date but I’ll double check.

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Yeah still no dice. One is still completely missing and one is mislabeled even though MP3Tag has them labeled the same as the other 8 books.

Is it a corruption in the books or something in PMS? Is there something in the logs that might shed light on it?

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I think I got it. I went back to it and inspected the folders and - as you suggested - I saw some naming inconsistencies in the folders that I didn’t think would be a big deal but I cleaned them and now it seems to be good go. Threw me for a loop since some of my other books are a bit messy in terms of folders and it scanned them fine but I think I just took it for granted.

Thanks again!

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What’s odd is it almost seems like folder naming convention is more important than the file itself? At least in the case of books with individual chapterized files.

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Lessons learned. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Sonarr taking care of all that for me. Hahaha

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