Hello. I have seen multiple posts on this, but all I see is people saying to do the Plex Dance . I keep getting multiple albums on a single folder, with songs being split between them: [image] Metadata should be all set correctly. Naming is as follows: /data/music/Immortal Technique/Behind the B…

Naming matches Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumber - TrackName.ext from https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/ VLC reads media info like: [image] What else am I missing?

I don’t see a meta tag for AlbumArtist. Use a fully-blown tagger software like e.g. mp3tag which shows all tags. Do also check for additional, but unnoticed white space characters in AlbumTitle and AlbumArtist tags. These could make tracks seem to be in different albums, when they only differ in so…

{ "format": { "filename": "01 - Creation and Destruction (Instrumental).mp3", "nb_streams": 2, "nb_programs": 0, "nb_stream_groups": 0, "format_name": "mp3", "format_long_name": "MP2/3 (MPEG audio layer 2/3)", "start_time": "0.023021", …

Just to make sure I checked all the files in this folder: ╰─$ for f in *.mp3; do echo -n "$f: "; ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format "$f" | jq -r '.format.tags.album_artist // "N/A"' done 01 - Creation and Destruction (Instrumental).mp3: Immortal Technique 02 - Dominant Species …

Are you using the modern metadata agent? (“Plex Music”) Have you checked your Server database file for corruption? GitHub - ChuckPa/DBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases

Yes (for the metadata agent), and actually, yes, I have used that tool just a week ago. Had an issue with stalling scans and metadata refreshes as soon as I started adding music to the library. The stalling stopped after I ran the auto option. Took like 2h to finish. I could try running it again a…

I was, as it seems, but not anymore. [image] Backup from 21.05 is 32gb in size, but the one in use is 800mb. No wonder the repair tool took 2h to finish haha. I have run the repair tool again, just in case, rescanned all my media, and refreshed music metadata. I will be on the lookout for the al…

Okay, so I think I figured it out. [image] The issue appears when converting flac to mp3. On scan, it splits the album for some reason, and imports some to the old one, and some to the newer one. It’s not like one album has flac files and another mp3 tho, all of them were converted sometime betwe…

Never convert. Particularly not from flac to mp3. It doesn’t make sense. If you want a quality upgrade, add a new folder with the upgraded files while the old one is still present. Scan the library. Only then remove the old folder and scan the library again +empty trash.

Duplicate Music Albums

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