I’m having issue with locking metadata on a 3 disc album, the discs have their own names with ‘DISC n’ in front of them but the server just ignores this.
The server takes all the files from the folders and randomly distributes them to 3 discs so that disc 1 has its songs 1 and 3 from disc 3 and disc 3 has its songs 1 and 3 from disc 1.
I’ve tried to fix this manually by editing the disc number on these and locking it, this causes the song 1 to stick on the right discs but song 3 reverts right back to the wrong disc.
Also tried to clear the song names while doing this but they get reverted back with the wrong disc numbers if left unlocked.
I also tried to set the library to prefer local metadata and this switched the names to right ones from the files, but they still go to the wrong discs.
Including the disc number in the filenames cause problems for Plex. Even when using “Prefer local metadata,” Plex still depends on the folder/file structure. It’s important to follow the naming convention outlined in this Help file:
With multi-disc albums, it is especially important that the discnumber tag is correct. This How-to article may offer additional help. Pay particular attention to the section on multi-disc sets.
There’s no place in Plex to set individual disc titles on multi-disc sets, so there’s nothing to lock. If you have individual disc titles, either in your folder names or in embedded tags, Plex doesn’t use them.
The lock icons, where they exist, are intended to prevent those tags from being overwritten during a metadata refresh. There are instances where that lock isn’t respected, but that is the intent.
Sometimes it isn’t respected. I have seen the lock work correctly, and I’ve seen it fail. There have been bugs reported about it. I don’t know the current status of those issues.
