OK, I’m going a bit nuts trying to figure this out. I’m re-ripping a few of my CDs to FLAC, and adding them to my Plex library. I’ve got a few multi-disc albums in there, and Plex doesn’t seem to be reading the “discnumber” tag on any of them! Is this a known issue? Am I supposed to set some other tag? Musicbee, MeadiaMonkey, mp3tag, they all confirm the “discnumber” tag is set. It’s only Plex that shows the disc number as “1” regardless of what disc in the set I’m viewing.
I can go into the track info, and edit/set the disc number within the Plex web app. this will sort the tracks correctly. But then my question becomes: what’s Plex setting here? Is this strictly a field within the Plex database, or is Plex appending to the header of the file itself?
Plex does not modify your media files in any way, with the exception of being able to delete files if you’ve configured it to do so.
Plex does pay attention to disc numbers, normally. Plex does have one known problem where it doesn’t separate the track listing for a multi-disc album into discs. I’m not sure if that’s what you’re seeing. It looks like this:
If you’re actually editing the track info and seeing ‘disc 1’ where you expect ‘disc 2,’ I’d like to see a screenshot of the mp3tag screen showing the tags for an example album.
Another thought: Is it possible that you changed the disc number tags in the files after you added the album(s) to Plex? If so, Plex is notorious for not properly updating changes like this. You may need to do the ‘Plex Dance’ mentioned in that How-To. There’s a link to it for directions.
Thanks for the reply. I’m actually having trouble reproducing the error now. I didn’t have the correct command line option set within EAC to add the disc number to the file metadata. Now that EAC is ripping and tagging the files correctly, Plex is recognizing the “disc” field.
I still think I was running into issues with changing the disc number with MusicBee and mp3tag. Plex wasn’t recognizing the disc number after I used these programs to add the disc number (even after I rescanned my library, etc.). I’ll have to try and retrace my steps to see if I was goofing up here, too.
Short version is that it Plex works as expected: it will recognize the FLAC tag if it’s correctly written.
@dogsdangles said:
Thanks for the reply. I’m actually having trouble reproducing the error now. I didn’t have the correct command line option set within EAC to add the disc number to the file metadata. Now that EAC is ripping and tagging the files correctly, Plex is recognizing the “disc” field.
Good show, glad you figured it out.
I still think I was running into issues with changing the disc number with MusicBee and mp3tag. Plex wasn’t recognizing the disc number after I used these programs to add the disc number (even after I rescanned my library, etc.). I’ll have to try and retrace my steps to see if I was goofing up here, too.
Plex is notorious for not recognizing when you’ve changed embedded tags. The problem has been so prevalent that the workaround has acquired a name, the “Plex Dance.” You might try following those steps.
I’m seeing the exact issue pictured above. Recently got a QNAP NAS (32TB, Raid 10, 16TB usable) and moved all my files to a “PlexMedia” share on the NAS, deleted all my libraries (unfortunately I did not take the opportunity to do the Plex Dance at that point as I should have!) But, since then I have done the Plex Dance on some individual albums to no avail.
I have 900 movies, 20 TV Shows (1300 episodes) and about 3000 albums (30K files). Oddly enough it chewed trough all this in a few hours.
Do you think deleting all the libraries, doing the Plex Dance, rebooting the world and rebuilding all the libraries from scratch might actually fix this mess?
Maybe a full uninstall of Plex and a rebuild. It’s not that bad, actually…
