Please please please. It’s been nearly ten years.
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Plex doesn’t give a ■■■■ about music. Time to try another round of Jellyfin to finally leave this sinking ship behind…
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Hi,
I want to suggest a feature to merge music. For example, If I have multiple copies of a song (different qualities for example) Plex will show that song X times in the same album right next to each other.
This feature exists for movies, but not music. Another example might be if you merged two peoples music libraries, there will more than likely be duplicate albums, but they may be named differently in the file system.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201018248-Merge-or-Split-Items is the link to how to merge items that are movies.
Thanks!
Could you elaborate a little bit why you’d want to keep several qualities of songs in the library? Why not just keeping the best?
Even the weakest server machine has enough horsepower to transcode e.g. FLAC to mp3 on the fly, so why bother?
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Well I want to only show the FLAC really (Unless I don’t have a FLAC rip, i.e. some bandcamp releases that didn’t release in anything but MP3), but the main issue is I already have all the transcodes saved and manually going through to prune isn’t the greatest of options for a large library.
Understood.
That’s something I’m interested in as well. Bring us a duplicate recognition for Plex Music Libraries please!
Bumping this up! I keep an elaborate library with multiple versions of albums for various reasons. I’d love to be able merge duplicates just like video files do. It doesn’t seem like this has ever been implemented.
Wanted to bump this, vote, and say please oh please yes! I’m in the same boat as @DasKraut. I like to keep multiple qualities to prevent transcoding and it is just a hot mess in Plex.
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@EldonMcGuinness right? I have lossless for my home surround music, and MP3 V0 for my phone and Plex streaming. Would love not to have to keep multiple music libraries and be able to switch versions on the fly like with video. Any word from dev on this?
Did you vote? (at the top of this thread)
Plex rarely if ever comments on when (or even if) something might be implemented.
Ok, I’m going to say “me too” also. I have PlexMediaServer running on Linux Mint (which I believe is an Ubuntu derivative), with a Music directory, and FLAC and MP3 subdirectories. In answer to the question that I know is going to be asked, yes there is a reason I have multiple copies, and no there is not an easy solution to just using one. My ripped my CD collection to FLAC, then encoded the FLAC files into MP3. However, I also had a bunch of cassette tapes, which i ripped straight to MP3.
So yes, I could just use the MP3 library, but then I can’t play the lossless files. The current “solution” is that the media library scans both the FLAC and MP3 directories, but of course all the originally-FLAC albums show up twice. I can merge the albums so I can only see the albums once each time, but then each song shows up twice in the album. I suppose I could also create separate FLAC and MP3 albums, but that’s also not ideal as the FLAC source would only show half the content. Since this is Linux, I could probably get away with soft-linking the MP3 files into the FLAC directory, but that would be either a tedious manual process or a difficult scripting one. And since Plex can Merge multiple copies of video files together, I shouldn’t have to!
Commenting on my own comment here, but I think I found as optimal as possible a solution for my environment. I made softlinks in the FLAC directory for the MP3 subdirectories that don’t exist on the FLAC side. Then I deleted the combined Music library and created a Music (high quality) library from the FLAC directory and a Music (low bandwidth) for the MP3 directory. It’s not fully updated yet, but it appears to have collected everything the way I want it.
But it still would be better if Plex could perform the same trick it can supposedly do with video files with the audio ones!
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I have done a similar thing like this. Two separate libraries. I wish they’d come up with a way to merge like they do with video. If they based it on metadata instead of filenames, like their video side does, then this should work the same way (…he says without having a clue how this is coded or anything like that, but ya know… keyboard warrior! haha).
Would love to merge all my separate libraries into one and manage the rest as playlists. Pleeeeeeease, Plex gods? ha
I know that roon has such feature
I also want to see this in Plex and it is not only about keeping different qualities of the same album. For example I have different versions of The Beatles albums - in mono and in stereo. Some album versions can be ripped from Vinyl and some are from CD, which means that they actually sound different. It also could be a remaster with addition bass or something. Some versions can have different tracklists and you just want to keep them all.
apparently roon is THE software to use to sort your audio library if you have multiple version of albums. Has this improved in anyway in plex? I’m trying to understand how to deal with my multiple versions… but in my case it’s more the fact that I have a ton of mp3 album that are also in flac because my phone never have enough space to store a lot of flac files.
Yes, please release merging of different formats / bitrates for music
2023 and this STILL is not implemented. WOW.
There’s only 15 votes for this feature request. It took years for Plex to implement feature requests with thousands of votes.
That’s something you and anyone else involved should NEVER brag about.
