I’ve been in there and there is no delete per se. I can go in and delete the path but then the save button is disabled.
Don’t enter ‘Edit…’
Pick ‘Delete’ instead
Ok. We’re getting somewhere! did the Plex dance on on artist and it worked! Now going to see if it works to fix the hewly acquired repeated track name thing…
did the dance with an album with track name changes screwed up and afterwards, now its got the original problem happening to it.
So you think if I delete the entire Music library and then add it back again, things will be worse (if I keep the file strucutre as it is now) with the new updated Plex?
Definitely.
The only clean way out is a radical restructuring of your music files.
Did the Plex dance and tried the recommended file strucutre with one artist. Didn’t work.
What the hell, I’m going to delete the library, add it back in and see what happens.
I’ll let you know.
No luck re-installing Music library. You were right. Totally screwed up now. I’m on to iTunes!
the new plex music is worse than the old plex music, especially for people who don’t want to be forced into plex’s ‘required’ music organization scheme.
and if you have content which doesn’t match up to musicbrainz, expect even more grief.
the worst part of the whole situation, is what was working before, no longer does.
an upgrade that is less tolerant and makes it’s own assumptions, is not an upgrade.
The annoying thing is that the whole music world has long moved to metadata in tags, and Plex has taken a step back to the 1990s by overriding this metadata by file/folder names.
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Hi,
I’ve got the same problem with more and more albums: each track of an album is set in its own album in Plex.
I think it’s a bug when there’s no track number set in metadata. While in the past it has never caused any issue, now it starting to mess up my library.
folder structure is artist/album/track.mp3
(although I’d like Plex to use tags in the first place, as they are correct for the artist, album, album art, and trackname).
I’m using the old plex scanner (plex music scanner/personnal media artist).
Plex scanner is trying to hard to be “intelligent” to guess tags (ex: one of the songs is called 911, plex is putting it in 9th disc, 11th song -_-) while i’d just like it to exactly match tags without guessing anything. I don’t want either matching “cloud” or online data, everything i need is embedded in music tags.
Please, Plex, just be dumb, trust the tags.
I don’t know if such a behaviour is possible.
Deleting and recreating my library is not an option (plex dance neither)
The option is called ‘prefer embedded tags’.
Which tags should it trust, if there are no tags?
If you enable the above checkbox, you need to have correct
- Track Artist
- Track Title
- Track number
- Album Artist (identical for all tracks within one album and folder on disc)
- Album Title (identical for all tracks within one album and folder on disc. Keep the ‘disc number’ out of the Album Title.)
- Disc number (if the album has more than one disc)
Also necessary:
- All tracks need to be in an album (you can treat “Single” releases as identically-titled albums just fine)
- Each album needs to be in its own subfolder
- Each album subfolder needs to be in the appropriate ‘Artist’ folder
- Sampler albums/compilations can have all different track artists, but need all the same artist in the ‘Album Artist’ tag
If you have an Artist ‘Various Artists’ (for compilations and sampler albums), you have to make sure that all tracks underneath have their ‘Album Artist’ tracks set to ‘Various Artists’. Otherwise, your whole artist ‘Various Artists’ may get renamed to one of the deviant Album Artists.
Everything is well tagged, except, like I said, the track number, which is not always set (because there is no number, but as it seems a bug in Plex, I could set one, arbitrary ordered by track name for example). Plex used to show them correctly, without numbers, and without creating one album by track (even if artist/album tags are the same and all tracks in the same folder and all).
I gave up on Plex and switched to Emby. Love it! It’s faster and finds my Plex server more reliably than Plex. Interface and dashboard are better IMO. Only had to import album cover photos - the images showed up if the music library is sorted by Album Artist or Artist.
The Plex Team should sort this out if they want to keep subscribers. There are alternatives. Just sayin’.
Hear! Hear! I wonder why such a strong-headed approach to something that worked so fine before? May I suggest a library option to rely ONLY on local metadata? I don’t need no info, no album art (I have it all already). Just leave my media as is, without imposing any silly rules.
I wrote many times about this, the result of course is the same. Being ignored.
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Here is an example when following rules gets you nowhere. A new library, local metadata preferred, three audio files, tags are like this:
I get one artists, three albums, each containg a single track. WHY? I suspect the answer is either bugs, or deliberate double-guessing about the titles/albums/tracks when clearly told DON’T.
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YES!
Over the years I have tagged music accurately and embedded album covers, just to have a newly purchased Plex be the only app/program I have seen that cannot simply read the tags and call it good.
What is the issue with just having Plex read the tags? Did the musicbrainz deal have a financial aspect which prevents Plex from having a setting option to rely only on embedded tags?
How did you get Emby to connect to Plex Server?
Otto, I really appreciate your commitment to Plex on these forums and the many helpful posts, but this requirement for compilations to be tagged with the English text string “Various Artists” is straight up wrong (if there’s no Album Artist, the field should be empty) and Plex should fix this. You can’t credibly argue that the fault lies with the users when every other modern music player can handle this.
Similarly, splitting up albums because of folder/filename detecting ‘intelligence’ in the scanner is unexpected behaviour too.
Thirdly, requiring track numbers and splitting the album into multiple 1-track “albums” if they’re not filled in is plain wrong too.
Plex can restate these requirements until they’re blue in the face but it’s rowing against the stream here, no-one expects these limitations in 2020.
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@heyvalera Would you be able to zip up those files and send them to me via dm so I can see what’s happening with those?
Sorry I misspoke.
I meant to say that my Emby player apps (PC, Roku, Smart TV) find my Emby server on my LAN faster and more reliably than my Plex apps ever found my Plex server on my LAN.
