How to organize albums with multiple disks?

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I’m trying to find a good way to organize albums with multiple disks. The thing is that Plex seem to be a little inconsistent in how it organizes the music. Currently I name my album mp3 files like this: [artist] - [album][disk #][two-digit track #] - [track name].[ext]. So e.g. Dream Theater’s Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence looks like this:

269×281 4.76 KB

But in Plex, it gets organized as this:

But on a different album, like The Neal Morse Band’s “The Silmlitude of a Dream” this works fine. Although, the tracks are listed in one paragraph and not divided into “CD1” and “CD2” sections.

Why is this? What am I doing wrong here? I find numerous tips and hints about how to do this. But nothing have worked so far.

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Well, it seems the issue was related to caching bug(?) in Plex. I was refreshing in every way possible, but still the files were mixed. It wasn’t until I deleted the entire library (in Plex, not the files themselves) and re-added it that Plex organized the files in order correctly.

But they are still not titled by “Disk n” as in the documentation (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205748387-How-do-I-use-multi-disc-support-for-my-music-libraries-), neither in the Windows application or the web application. In my Android app, though, the disks are titled as in the documentation.

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I recommend you to populate the embedded meta tags in your files for ‘disc #’

After changing file names and meta tags, you need to perform the Plex Dance (with music, you can omit step 4)
This saves you from having to delete the whole library.

further music recommendations:

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Once Upon a Time a multiple disc item used to be attractively displayed…

That was broken and never fixed - as usual:

Setting the Discnumber (1/2, 2/2, ect) will split them into their current ugliness and that’s about the best we can hope for.

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@ohjohnsen said:
But they are still not titled by “Disk n” as in the documentation (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205748387-How-do-I-use-multi-disc-support-for-my-music-libraries-), neither in the Windows application or the web application. In my Android app, though, the disks are titled as in the documentation.

The issue of missing ‘Disc x’ labels is a known issue that will, hopefully, be fixed soon.

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Hahaha… Plex Dance. :smiley:
But using embedded metadata rather than file names might be a good idea.

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Item Structure:

F:\Music - Rock
…Pink Floyd
…Pink Floyd - The Wall
…Disc 1
…tracks
…Disc 2
…tracks

I find MP3Tag the only way to fly (here is ‘Disc 2’ - note: ‘Discnumber’ entry):

I have never actually needed The Plex Dance® for music libraries… but… just in case:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ or the ultimate bundle reboot operation/ or a generic ‘Re-Do’ Operation
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

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@JuiceWSA said:

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

Actually, there’s one shortcut. As Otto mentioned earlier, for music, step 4 can be skipped.