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I ripped my parent’s Christmas CD collection as FLAC files with Windows Media Player. The first track of every album is just titled “Track 1” and the album artist of every album is “Various Artists”. They look fine in Windows Media Player, what went wrong?
Edit: If I go in and select “Fix Match” it will initially set the album artist’s name correctly before renaming them to “Unknown Artist”. The description and artist photo remain.
Hi,
I am currently ripping a bunch of old CD’s and they are also having the same issue.
Ripped at max quality via windows media player on to a network location. All file names, album artist and track titles are correct in separate folders,
Once I add the folders into my Plex music library, by moving the album folders into their respective artist folders which alredy exist in my plex music library, or a new artist folder with its albums.
Plex reports the album artist as unknown and first track on every album is listed as “track 1”
Despite the name of the file being correct and Plex getting the correct artwork.
Folder structure in my Muic library is:
Music/Artist/Album/#-Track Title
Plex Version 1.20.4.3517
I really don’t want to have to manually edit the first track on all my albums to get the correct title, when the file name is correct.
I ran into something similar. I think it has to do with meta tags and folder structure. Try this.
For compilation CDs where there is more than one artist like a christmas album. Try using this folder structure.
AlbumArtistName / AlbumArtistName - AlbumTitle / TrackNumber - Track Artist - Track Name
For example:
Various Artists / Various Artists - A Colbert Christmas The Greatest Gift of All / 01 - Stephen Colbert - Another Christmas Song
Also make sure your meta tags are good and have Various Artists as the Album Artist but each track have the track artist listed. This should help with the matching for compilation discs. Use a meta tagger program to inspect the files and correct any mislabeled tracks. Hope this helps.
That doesn’t solve what I now think is the root cause of the issue though- Windows Media Player doesn’t seem to be rewriting metadata to the first song of the album. MusicBrainz Picard shows a bunch of "Track 1"s too.
Yeah, the workaround I found is to not allow win media player to auto rip the disc on insertion. Do it manually which I know is slower as you need to click rip CD button, but it has fixed the “track 1” issue for me.
Root cause I beleive is that win media player is ripping the file quicker than it is retrieving the media data from the online sources and not re-writing the metadata on to track 1 once the media data has been collected. This then has a knock on effect into Plex not identifying the album correctly from the meta data of the files.
I checked by manually adding in the meta data for a “track 1” file by copying the filename as the track title and the data from other tracks off the same CD, then added that to Plex, it worked just fine.
So not really a Plex issue but an import with Win Media player issue Typical!
Alternatively, using win media player just allow it to finish retrieving the meta data before starting the rip.
I have done about a dozen discs this way and no more “Track 1” issues found. I also double checked the ripped file properties and the correct meta data is listed for artist/album/track title etc…
Annoying I can’t just insert disc and let it immediately start ripping, have to wait 20 secs then click rip CD, but that’s better than fiddling with adding in missing data.
