Hit and Miss Music Sort in QNAP PMS

[AwesomeUser]

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I ripped a CD and have the following folder structure:
/Artist/Album/Artist - Title/

For example:
/share/Music/Imagine Dragons/So Fresh The Hits Of Summer 2018/Imagine Dragons - 16 Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes.flac

I also found the album on the LastFM (https://www.last.fm/music/Various+Artists/So+Fresh:+The+Hits+of+Summer+2018).

I tried to follow the instruction (here), but not sure about the “Albumartist - Albumtitle” part.

The thing is, Plex does not automatically recognise the album and I need to manually ‘match’ it one-by-one.

Some songs are good, but some don’t, on which when I tried to “match” it, it does not show the correct album; and every time I selected “Last FM” (instead of “Auto Match”), it always shows this error message No matches were found using this agent.

Questions:

1. Did I use the correct folder structure for Plex to identify the song and album?
2. In my above example, should I use “Various Artists” as the “Albumartist - Albumtitle” part? something like this: \artist\Various Artists - So Fresh: The Hits of Summer 2018\artist - title ?
3. With movie, I can put the IMDB ID, can I do the same with LastFM?

Thanks

[OttoKerner]

1. no
2. precisely
3. no

Additional to 2):
Make sure to set the ‘Albumartist’ meta tag for all tracks of this album to ‘Various Artists’

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[AwesomeUser]

Thanks @OttoKerner for your prompt response!

I’ve renamed one of the song to the following:
/Music/Imagine Dragons/Various Artists - So Fresh The Hits Of Summer 2018/Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes.flac

Unfortunately, it does not recognise the album automatically.

When I match manually, it presented with wrong albums too.

What do you think could have gone wrong here?

[OttoKerner]

@AwesomeUser

I’ve renamed one of the song to the following:

• Not one of the songs. All songs of this album.
• And all songs of this album must be located together in the same folder.
• What about embedded meta data?
• After mismatches and subsequent renaming and meta data editing, perform the Plex Dance

I wouldn’t expect Gracenote to know every compilation/sampler album. There are far too many of these out there.