# Help - Multi-disc Music albums **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** plexamp, playlists\ **Created:** [June 16, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927 "2021-06-16T19:33:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stan3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stan3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Stan3)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/1 "2021-06-16T19:33:07Z")
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! Pics attached, if they are of any help! ![Screenshot_20210616-180503(1)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/8/5/85adb510557dae0f322a9b61149ce68156f77495.jpeg) ![Screenshot_20210616-180521(1)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/5/f/5f67956b08922ea6f044ffd42bf21fc69620c5e0.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/2 "2021-06-16T20:21:24Z")
I think you’re seeing the same issue as in this post. > [@Bug: music file rating on albums with multiple discs: rating 1st track rates 1st track on ALL discs](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-music-file-rating-on-albums-with-multiple-discs-rating-1st-track-rates-1st-track-on-all-discs/720961): > > Server Version#: 1.23.2.4656 (Mac) Player Version#: 1.31.1.2262-74fdc6b7 (Mac) I have albums with multiple discs filled with MP3s. They are tagged as you would expect, so the first song on each disc starts with track number 1. All files are tagged correctly, so each file has the correct track number, total number of tracks on that disc, disc number and total number of discs. Here’s the problem: say I have an album consisting of 3 discs. I rate the second track on the second disc. Now the seco… In [another post](https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-multi-disc-music-rating-copies-across-discs/657929), 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. ---
**Author:** ![WillemABC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@WillemABC](https://forums.plex.tv/u/WillemABC)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/3 "2021-06-16T20:39:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/4 "2021-06-16T20:42:21Z")
I flagged yours to be re-opened as well. ---
**Author:** ![Stan3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stan3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Stan3)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/5 "2021-06-17T08:34:44Z")
Hi, thanks for the response. 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? ---
**Author:** ![WillemABC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@WillemABC](https://forums.plex.tv/u/WillemABC)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/6 "2021-06-21T19:21:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aubrey.wodonga](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/aubrey.wodonga/32/175408_2.png) [@aubrey.wodonga](https://forums.plex.tv/u/aubrey.wodonga)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/7 "2021-06-23T00:03:25Z")
This issue sounds very similar to the one below: > [@PlexAmp Automatic Star Ratings](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-automatic-star-ratings/718693/27): > > I like that track too! The issue is that it’s matched using ancient metadata sources (last.fm). Make sure if it’s an old music library, you’ve selected the upgrade option (found off the context menu for the library). You should then be able to e.g. refresh metadata for Toto or the album and it’ll upgrade it to the new metadata schema which doesn’t suffer from this problem. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Stan3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stan3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Stan3)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 8:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/8 "2021-06-24T20:52:48Z")
It worked! The suggestion in @elan’s post you linked worked…thank you both! Once I did “upgrade matching” and then refreshed the metadata (on the artist level, not just the album itself) it worked! I removed the ratings, then re-added them, and it only added to the tracks I wanted “starred” - thank you. Plex/PlexAmp now is genuinely perfect for me - this was the last niggle I had! ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/9 "2021-06-24T21:43:23Z")
Glad to hear! ---
**Author:** ![Stan3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stan3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Stan3)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/10 "2021-06-25T05:48:36Z")
@elan, @aubrey.wodonga… The solving of one problem has created another. 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. ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/11 "2021-06-25T06:07:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 6:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/12 "2021-06-25T06:07:34Z")
> [@Stan3](#): > > I’ve also spent hours rating tracks and building playlists 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. ---
**Author:** ![Stan3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@Stan3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Stan3)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/13 "2021-06-25T06:42:57Z")
Thanks Elan, will give that a try. 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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/help-multi-disc-music-albums/722927/14 "2021-09-23T06:43:15Z")
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