How to get The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings properly recognized by the Premium Music Agent?

[timvisher]

I have the following directory structure (created by iTunes)

$ ls /Volumes/gemedet-nas/Volumes/Jude/iTunes\ Media/Music/J.R.R.\ Tolkien/
The Lord Of The Rings_ The Fellowship Of The Ring [Disc 02]/
The Lord Of The Rings_ The Fellowship Of The Ring [Disc 1]/
The Lord Of The Rings_ The Fellowship Of The Ring [Disc 3]/
The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 4]/
The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 5]/
The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 6]/
The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 7]/
The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 8]/

I’m interested in getting all of that to appear correctly in my Premium Music library. I looked at some of the files with exiftool and noticed that they have conflicting metadata. Some of them are marked as Album : The Mind's Eye's The Lord of the Rings [Disc 4] and others as Album : The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring [Disc 1], for instance. There are other differences as well.

I’m used to being able to go to themoviedb or thetvdb or whatever to figure out what te rename things to but I can’t find anything like that for the Premium Music Agent. There also doesn’t seem to be anything nearly as specific as the movie or tv naming conventions for music, possibly because it tries to rely on sonic fingerprints or ID3 tags or whatever?

I also have the BBC radio broadcasts and have similar questions for naming those.

Thanks in advance!

[OttoKerner]

Since this is no music at all, chances are slim that the Premium Music agent recognises it successfully.

Plex has almost zero support for audio books. All you can do is some workarounds and a special library configuration. So I recommend you to actually create an additional, separate audio library of the ‘regular’ (last.fm) type.
This ensures that you don’t get an audiobook chapter when you just want some random music.
And it allows you to use a totally different metadata agent for your audio books.

For the rest, use this as a starting point: Audiobook Guide

[timvisher]

It’s a good point that the the files I’m dealing with aren’t really ‘music’ in a the traditional sense, Nevertheless the Premium Music agent has found the files and organized them into albums, etc.

Maybe my question would be better asked that if I had some music files that Plex had incorrectly marked the artist and album information on, how would I go about fixing that? I know how to do it for Movies and TV Shows, but I have no idea how to do it for music, as I don’t tend to use Plex for music.

[OttoKerner]

I still recommend you not to use audio books in a premium library.

Read the linked article.
Change the folder structure and file names accordingly.
Embed proper metadata.

Then perform the Plex Dance

[timvisher]

Thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

[OttoKerner]

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