Different albums are created

I have the problem that when I add music different albums arise? This while the album tag has the same name.

How can I solve this?

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Both the folder organization and the embedded meta tags need to agree on the following:

  • Each track belongs into an album.
  • Each Album belongs into an AlbumArtist.
  • All tracks stored within the same (album)folder belong into the same album.
  • All album folders stored within the same artist folder belong to the same AlbumArtist.

So, for proper function of Plex, you need to organize your music into a folder structure like this:

Music / AlbumArtist / AlbumTitle / Tracks
(ā€œAlbumTitleā€ can also be a Single or EP release.)

If you enable ā€˜Prefer local metadata’, all your tracks must have complete and correct embedded meta tags.

The meta tag ā€˜AlbumTitle’ must have identical content for all tracks of an album.
The ā€˜Disc Number’ does not belong into the Album Title tag, but into a separate ā€˜Disc Number’ tag!

All tracks must also have identical content in the ā€˜Album Artist’ meta tag. For sampler albums, this is usually ā€œVarious Artistsā€.

Each track must also have the ā€˜Track Number’ metatag populated.

Here is an example how this works:

Normally it works for me when I only tag the Album name. I will try it with the tags ā€œMusic / AlbumArtist / AlbumTitle / Tracksā€.

It still does not work for me. What can be the problem? I create my own playlist.

ā€œAlbum Artistā€ must have identical content for all tracks of one album.
In this case this can be ā€˜Various Artists’ or whatever you choose.

A playlist is not an album, though.

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The Album Artist is now Various Artists. Plex still create different albums.

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Do the tracks have each a ā€œTrack Numberā€ meta tag?
Are they all stored within the same folder?

The numbers don’t have a Track Number. After I correct all numbers with a Track Number it works. Thank you for your help :grinning:

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