Can't Get Multiple Albums of Artist to be Recognized

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Running WD PR2100. I can’t get Plex to recognize multiple albums of same artist. Done: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/Wildflowers as individual folder for each album and then:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

/Wildflowers

/Hard Promises

As Artist Folder with subfolder for each album.

What gives? Any help appreciated.

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I’m not sure I understand what you experience vs. what you’re trying to achieve.

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Trying to get Plex to recognize all albums of any single artist. It’s hit and miss right now after trying both methods mentioned above.

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@jeff_jones

Which artist?

I can show you, for example:

Here’s Supertramp (all are recognized)

[chuck@lizum music.2015]$ ls Supertramp
Supertramp - Breakfast in America/     Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?/             Supertramp - Indelibly Stamped/         Supertramp - Supertramp/
Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound/  Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments.../  Supertramp - Paris/                     The Very Best Of Supertramp/
Supertramp - Classics, Volume 9/       Supertramp - "...Famous Last Words..."/        Supertramp - Slow Motion/
Supertramp - Crime of the Century/     Supertramp - Free as a Bird/                   Supertramp - Some Things Never Change/
[chuck@lizum music.2016]$ ls Supertramp/Supertramp\ -\ Paris/
Disc 1/  Disc 2/
[chuck@lizum music.2017]$ ls Supertramp/Supertramp\ -\ Paris/Disc\ 1
01 - School.mp3                03 - The Logical Song.flac   05 - Breakfast in America.flac  07 - Hide in Your Shell.flac  cover (1).jpg  cover (3).jpg
02 - Ain't Nobody but Me.flac  04 - Bloody Well Right.flac  06 - You Started Laughing.flac  08 - From Now On.flac         cover (2).jpg  cover.jpg
[chuck@lizum music.2018]$

I use Picard for the naming. I will share my renaming rule if it helps.

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Didn’t know Supertramp put out that many albums. I’m having trouble getting all of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers recognized; just their first and anthology shows up. What would be the structure for the album Wildflowers?

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I AM guessing here. I don’t have any Tom Petty albums.

Should be very close to (based on my Supertramp):

Tom Petty/
  Tom Petty - Wildflowers/
    01 -  Wildflowers
    02 -  You Don't Know How It Feels
    03 -  Time to Move On
    04 -  You Wreck Me      
    05 -  It's Good to Be King
    06 -  Only a Broken Heart
    07 -  Honey Bee 
    08 -  Don't Fade on Me          
    09 -  Hard on Me        
    10 -  Cabin Down Below
    11 -  To Find a Friend
    12 -  A Higher Place
    13 -  House in the Woods
    14 -  Crawling Back to You      
    15 -  Wake Up Time
  Tom Petty - All the Rest
   .
   .
   .

Only place I see possible issue is with Tom Petty and my use of just his name versus the full name. (I’m not a music buff)

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Okay, I got it. Numbering and name of tracks, no other info. The only weird thing is that I put Wildflowers album under Tom Petty since it is a solo album, but Plex insists it’s a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album ~ renames it no matter what I do, which is okay since it at least recognizes it now, although before it didn’t. I deleted all Tom Petty, corrected naming issues, then reloaded/scanned. All good now. Thank you.

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great to hear. Music matching, even without tags, works well when done this way (as they list on the support page)

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FYI, Forgot to share (many other tools do this but I use Linux)

This is my renaming rule for Picard.

$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/
$if(%albumartist%,%album%/,)
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),Disc %discnumber%/,)$if($and(%albumartist%,%tracknumber%),$num(%tracknumber%,2). ,)$if(%_multiartist%,%artist% - ,)%title%

It handles multi-disc and multi-artist

The Picard docs detail how it works.

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