How does plex handle boxsets example i have Pink floyd dark side of the moon immersion boxset and each disc is different disc 1 is quad lp of original. Disc 2 is Remastered disc 3 is 1974 live and disc 5 is rare performances of floyd material how can I denote each disc what is is but keeping it under the same umbrella of the boxset and not individually having 5 separate entries.
Short answer: It doesn’t.
You can pick your approach: Either you
- define each disc as its own album
- put all discs into one album (as Musicbrainz require it)
I tend to use the former approach:
Dam that would be so cool if plex could do that …dam that sucks
I’ve done this for a couple of box-sets, but sometimes it can cause you to fight against Plex’s matching.
I have a Garth Brooks box-set that, to me, is made up of several different albums. However, I continually have to check on it and unmatch them or I get this:
Instead of this:
If you go the “separate albums” route, you must prepare the files exactly as other albums.
- each album gets its own folder underneath the artist
- each album gets it individual album title in its meta tag
You better remove any musicbrainz metatags from the files, which may be still pointing to the same “accumulated” album version.
This is exactly how I did it. Each disc was ripped as a separate album. I don’t keep any MusicBrainz tags. I also have “prefer local metadata” enabled. Not really sure what Plex is trying to do. 
I’d like to see Plex follow in Kodi v19’s footsteps and add support for your scenario, something Kodi calls “sub-albums”. The way sub-albums work is that when you look at a list of albums (like an artist’s album page), the boxed set is shown but the individual albums in the boxed set are not. When you click on the boxed set you see you see the list of sub-albums in the boxed set, each with its own title and cover art. Open one of the sub-albums and you see the sub-album’s tracks. A sub-album is essentially just like any other album except for where it is displayed.
Kodi supports sub-albums using the SETSUBTITLE tag (id3v2.4 TSST). The boxed set name goes in ALBUM, the name of the disc within the boxed set goes in SETSUBTITLE. I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet to get a feel for the details of how it interacts with other tags like disc number.
Another thing I’d like to see added is support for the MOVEMENT tag. This is kind of like sub-albums, but instead of grouping albums it groups tracks within an album. It would be a lot like the “Disc 1” and “Disc 2” labels you see when viewing the tracks of a multi-disc album, but you’d be able to set your own names for the groupings. iTunes has had this feature for many years.
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I like your idea…that’s sounds awesome…does kodi do that with plex connect or does it follow plex structure when doing the add on
I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure it follows the plex structure.
I strongly second adding support for the id3v2.4 TSST (disc/set subtitle) tag/metadata to both Plex and Plexamp - this would make dealing with multi-disc albums so much easier (like picking the right album out of the 11-disc “Discovery” remastered Pink Floyd set, or the 12-disc “Yes, The Studio Albums”, or the right concert out of live sets, etc.). Even the Apple Music Store displays proper disc subtitles, though Apple Music (previously called iTunes) doesn’t show them, which is really frustrating for music buyers. But MusicBrainz has great support for disc subtitles throughout their database.
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