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Hi all,
I’m not sure when it happened, but i now have hundreds of albums that are split. It was never perfect, but never this bad. Beyond manually merging them all (not gonna happen), any suggestions for automatically merging all of these split albums?
Thanks…
AFAIK this always springs from a problem with the metadata. For example, you may be missing or have inconsistent Album Artist tags.
I can’t prove it but I am pretty sure that you can see problems with albums that are themselves organized correctly… Bad data in other albums may be the root cause.
Make sure you are following the Plex music organization rules. Use a tool like mp3tag if needed for mass changes. (It can even rewrite directory structure and folder names.)
Once you get things ship-shape it should be very reliable. If you don’t follow the rules closely, there will be trouble. It is what it is.
Music is a pain. It’s a labor of love no matter how you slice it.
Named and structured correctly , everything works.
FWIW. which has taken me a long time to work out,
I offer this as a reference.
These are the File Naming rules for “Picard”.
$if2(%albumartist%,%artist%)/
$if(%albumartist%,%album%/,)
$if($gt(%totaldiscs%,1),%discnumber%-,)$if($and(%albumartist%,%tracknumber%),$num(%tracknumber%,2) ,)$if(%_multiartist%,%artist% - ,)%title%
Edit: “John Lennon” comes out looking like this:
[chuck@lizum music.2000]$ cd John\ Lennon/
[chuck@lizum John Lennon.2001]$ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 116 May 3 2021 ./
drwxr-xr-x 113 chuck chuck 4096 May 15 2023 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 John Lennon - Imagine: John Lennon: Music From the Motion Picture/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 May 3 2021 Mind Games (1973)/
[chuck@lizum John Lennon.2002]$ ls -la John\ Lennon\ -\ Imagine\:\ John\ Lennon\:\ Music\ From\ the\ Motion\ Picture/
total 409084
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 116 May 3 2021 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 14873298 Jun 25 2019 01 - Real Love.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 13146739 Jun 25 2019 02 - Twist and Shout.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 15118773 Jun 25 2019 03 - Help!.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 14079494 Jun 25 2019 04 - In My Life.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 22173817 Jun 25 2019 05 - Strawberry Fields Forever.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 29742263 Jun 25 2019 06 - A Day in the Life.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 22278261 Jun 25 2019 07 - Revolution.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 20601612 Jun 25 2019 08 - The Ballad of John & Yoko.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 15602814 Jun 25 2019 09 - Julia.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 23665862 Jun 25 2019 10 - Don't Let Me Down.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 35367725 Jun 25 2019 11 - Give Peace a Chance.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 17837977 Jun 25 2019 12 - How?.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 5522984 Jun 25 2019 13 - Imagine (rehearsal).flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 19416701 Jun 25 2019 14 - God.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 24329197 Jun 25 2019 15 - Mother (live).flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 20554668 Jun 25 2019 16 - Stand by Me.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 22044794 Jun 25 2019 17 - Jealous Guy.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 21618950 Jun 25 2019 18 - Woman.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 22575683 Jun 25 2019 19 - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy).flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 24306519 Jun 25 2019 20 - (Just Like) Starting Over.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 13962238 Jun 25 2019 21 - Imagine.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 28101 Jun 25 2019 cover.jpg
[chuck@lizum John Lennon.2003]$
Supertramp - Paris
[chuck@lizum Supertramp.2012]$ ls -la
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 16 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 ./
drwxr-xr-x 113 chuck chuck 4096 May 15 2023 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 Supertramp - Breakfast in America/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 271 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 Supertramp - Classics, Volume 9/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 335 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Crime of the Century/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 281 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments.../
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - "...Famous Last Words..."/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Free as a Bird/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Indelibly Stamped/
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 46 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Paris/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 331 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Slow Motion/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 Supertramp - Some Things Never Change/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Supertramp - Supertramp/
drwxr-xr-x 3 chuck chuck 81 Mar 6 2018 The Very Best Of Supertramp/
[chuck@lizum Supertramp.2013]$ ls -laR *Paris*
Supertramp - Paris:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 46 Mar 6 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 16 chuck chuck 4096 Jun 26 2019 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 Disc 1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 330 Mar 6 2018 Disc 2/
Supertramp - Paris/Disc 1:
total 271072
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 6 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 46 Mar 6 2018 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 9298686 Jun 20 2016 01 - School.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 40037165 Mar 10 2017 02 - Ain't Nobody but Me.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 28612129 Mar 10 2017 03 - The Logical Song.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 50091727 Mar 10 2017 04 - Bloody Well Right.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 20856661 Mar 10 2017 05 - Breakfast in America.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 24901328 Mar 10 2017 06 - You Started Laughing.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 47753291 Mar 10 2017 07 - Hide in Your Shell.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 48401522 Mar 10 2017 08 - From Now On.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 2568710 Mar 6 2018 cover (1).jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 2041963 Mar 6 2018 cover (2).jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 2568710 Mar 6 2018 cover (3).jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 416363 Mar 7 2017 cover.jpg
Supertramp - Paris/Disc 2:
total 316644
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 330 Mar 6 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 chuck chuck 46 Mar 6 2018 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 25027301 Mar 10 2017 01 - Dreamer.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 49771046 Mar 10 2017 02 - Rudy.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 32419722 Mar 10 2017 03 - A Soapbox Opera.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 48180176 Mar 10 2017 04 - Asylum.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 35981715 Mar 10 2017 05 - Take the Long Way Home.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 71566436 Mar 10 2017 06 - Fool's Overture.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 9325584 Mar 10 2017 07 - Two of Us.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 47340322 Mar 10 2017 08 - Crime of the Century.flac
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 2568710 Mar 6 2018 cover (1).jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 2041963 Mar 6 2018 cover.jpg
[chuck@lizum Supertramp.2014]$
Many thanks. The albums come out properly organized in mediamonkey, which i use to organize, tag, etc… Is there anything else I can try to get plex to recognize tracks that belong to the same album?
Whatever Media Monkey says, you have to follow the rules . Are you sure you are using the right folder structure and file names? Do all albums have consistent Album Artist, Album and Title tags?
If you are sure everything is correct then do a Plex Dance, or, better yet, remove and re-add your music library to force a complete rescan.
You need to ensure that every track in an album has a “track number” metatag, properly populated.
(“Vinyl” numbering is not supported in Plex. Only numbers are accepted.)
Keep in mind: “Album Artist” and “Artist” are separate tags.
Here we have two albums which I want to appear under the same album artist in Plex, even though they were originally released under different names. Notice the difference between Artist and AlbumArtist:
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