How to index radio shows

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have a large library of old radio shows - mostly comedy from the BBC , e.g. “I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue”. Dozens of seasons.

Based on my experience of indexing TV shows and having to use an MP3 utility to strip tags in order for Plex to properly recognise and index the episodes, I laboriously went through all of my radio episodes, named and numbered them consistently then stripped all of the tags. I think that was a mistake!

I have tried adding them as a “Music” library, but it does not recognise the folder, season and episode names/numbers. It is obviously looking for MP3 tags to identify Artist, Album. etc., but that info has been stripped - it was not consistent anyhow.

Tried changing top folder name and adding as a “TV Show” library, but then it does not recognise anything cause the files are audio, not video.

Is there an easy solution?

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Music libraries do not use seasons and episodes. They need to follow the Artist/Album/Track format. If you want to use a TV Show layout, you need video files. A TV Show library won’t pick up mp3 files.

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OK, thanks. Yes, I understand that now, but since collections of old Radio shows often do not come from “albums” or similar published music source, there is no standard metadata.

So do I have to laboriously invent the data and enter it manually?

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If you want metadata to show, then yes, you will need to add them manually.

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OK, thought so, I have started doing that. What a chore. Never mind, get it done once and hopefully will be there forever!

Thanks.