Looking for some help playing music on Plex and PlexAmp, specifically album tracks that have been rated (with 1-5 stars).
For example, I have a Kenny Rogers album with 2 CDs…
My fav songs are on CD1, tracks 10 & 13 so I rate them 5 stars.
I then set up a smart playlist to play all my songs rated 5 stars. Great… Kind of.
I now have 4 songs on my “5 star” play list. Tracks 10 & 13 from CD 1 AND tracks 10 & 13 from CD2.
I am very specific about tagging music so all my albums are tagged using mp3tag, so all metadata relating to songs/disc numbers is spot on.
Yet whenever I rate a song on a multi-disc album, that particular song number on each disc is rated… Any idea why?
Any idea how to fix it?
If I remove the star from the track I don’t want, it removes the star from the one I do - it seems like the songs are being linked somehow and it’s driving me nuts.
Please help… PlexAmp is damn near perfect other than this!
I think you’re seeing the same issue as in this post.
In another post, the person found a way around it by putting the disc number in the filenames, but that can cause other problems, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
Thank you for linking to my post and thus to more resources. I think I will try the renamed files, as it doesn’t seem Plex actually reads the forum posts and/or cares about bugs all that much. I’ll take the work-around.
I’ve checked the filenames for some of the albums this happens to and some are named album/track (1-01. Song Name) and some are just track/song (01. Song Name), so that doesn’t seem to be where the issue lies.
The albums are matched in Plex too, so have also ruled that out.
If you guys on the forum are seeing reports on this, are the Plex devs looking into it?
I can also confirm that changing the names with the disc number in it doesn’t appear to fix the problem. I have also tried changing Disc 1 of 3 in the MP3 tags to just Disc 1 (leaving the total number of discs blank), but that didn’t do anything either.
In short: nothing seems to work. This is just very annoying, enough to consider an alternative.
As for your other question, the post beckfield pointed to was from November '20. The devs are either not aware of this bug at all or it isn’t high on their priority list. I get the impression Plex is catering mostly to people using it for TV & Movies, far fewer people use it for Music. I think.
Could you post the XML of two tracks you’re experiencing the issue with, as Elan described in the thread? I suspect your albums are matched with the (very old) last.fm agent.
It looks like Plex is now ignoring my embedded metadata. All options are set to use embedded tags (in advanced settings in Library, and in the sources section of settings) but something has gone awry.
For example, the artist Kasabian and the one album of theirs I have is now showing in my library as an artist named “Indie”.
I have a decent sized music library (approx 30k songs) and have it all metadata well tagged within the files.
More importantly, I’ve also spent hours rating tracks and building playlists in Plex itself, so don’t want to lose that.
Any thoughts? I’m refreshing full metadata just now (for the 2nd time) but haven’t seen any of the new issues being resolved so far.
In the advanced library settings, there’s a “Prefer local metadata” option. When scanning in new content it will respect your tags, and prefer them for other metadata as well when refreshing.
During the upgrade it’s possible that a few things are mismatched, but if you set that option and fix the ones which got mismatched manually, you should be good from here on out.
That shouldn’t be a problem as when you fix a match the ratings et al come along with it. Just don’t nuke your library and start fresh as you’ll lose playlists.
There’s 100+ compilation albums that have done the same, but would rather fix and keep than have to nuke and start again - thanks for confirming on the ratings etc being retained during match fixing.
