Is there a way to exclude music from the search list?

[SmoothRunnings]

So I have Dead or Alive - Sophisticated boom box mmxivi (the definitive album anthology), this is 17 CDs packed with all the songs and remixes they had. Anyhow the problem is when I try to add disc 3 it mixes it with disc 1. When I search it shows the Sophisticated boom box mmxivi as having 2 discs not 17 yet when I check google it shows 17 discs, so does Amazon, and all other outlets that sell it. Is there anyway to tell Plex to not use the lookup information with this album or group for that matter?

Just to clarify. I have my drive like this. c:\plex\music\dead or alive c:\plex\music\dead or alive\Sophisticated Boom Box MMXIVI then from this folder (above) I have Disc 1, Disc 2, etc. They show up initially in Plex as separate CDs, when I merge 1 and 2 together it works. When I merge 3 I get 1 and 3 under disc 1 so its has song 1. then 1., and 2. then 2. etc.

Thanks

[OttoKerner]

Here are some tips regarding music.
See the first link.

multi-disc albums

Organizing Music - Soundtracks and Various Artists (Hit collections)

I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums: ===== 1.“Various Artists” is the usual choice for ‘Sampler’ style albums. There may be exceptions for ‘collaboration’ albums which are credited to all participating artists on the album cover. 2. use the title of the single as it appears on the cover. You can augment that information with (CDM) or (single) or (Maxi) or (EP) as it fits. If it is a genuine release, Gracenote should have no problem identifying it. …

handling singles and EP’s

Best way to add album, singles & ep to a Premium Music Library

conventional CD release If we are talking about a conventional CD single release (where there is still more than one song contained), the tagging is not different from an album. AlbumArtist: “Depeche Mode” Album: “Blasphemous Rumours (CDS CDBONG7)” Artist: “Depeche Mode” DiscNo: “1” Of course you don’t need to include the full catalog number like I did in the example. It is just there to show you that it is possible. But you might still wanna include (CDS) into the album title, just to ind…

possible ‘side car’ files for music

Music Album artwork

Little tip: If you have lots of bootlegs etc. you want to bring your embedded metatags into order first. Then you need to have the Local Media Assets agent in top position. I wouldn’t trust last.fm to fetch correct info about bootlegs and special editions of albums, like those recent expanded re-releases of Zappa albums. Put as much info into the meta tags as possible. Put a cover art inside the album folder and you should be good. Makes sure to set at least ‘AlbumArtist’ and ‘AlbumTitle’ to…

soundtracks and ‘various artists’

Plex Folder View - folder.jpg not recognized?

@naddel81 said: album view does not work properly, because if you have various artists on an album (most cases) then it shows them as “various artists” instead of the album name. folder view would be the best option and I guess it has been asked before. is it too hard to implement? You can put what you like into the AlbumArtist meta tag, if you don’t like it to appear under VA. You could use the game title or the game developer or the game ‘universe’ (if you have several albums which fit in…

[SmoothRunnings]

I have done the first one. the problem still persists.

Artist /
Albumtitle /
Disc 1 /

1. tracktitle.mp3
2. tracktitle.mp3
   …
   Disc 2 /
3. tracktitle.mp3
4. tracktitle.mp3
   …
   Disc 3
5. tracktitle.mp3
   2,. tracktitle.mp3
   …

As soon as I update the album name to correct name both Disc 1 and Disc 3 merge together as 1 disc. The same thing happens if I leave the name alone, and merge Disc 1 and Disc 3 together using Plex. The issue is I need to disable the “match” for this artist if that’s possible because the album is not show up correctly, it thinks the album in question only has 2 discs while it sells with 17 discs.

Sorry the numbers and the tracks above don’t show up correctly, they look fine in my edited post but are correct, each tracktitle is numbered correctly on my plex.

I have even edited the file with WinAmp to mark each track under reach disc as disc # 1, etc., depending on which disc it resides in.

Thanks,

[OttoKerner]

Put ‘Local Media Assets’ into top position under
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
and
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Plex Premium Music

Then edit your library,
go to the ‘Advanced’ tab
and put a check mark into ‘Use embedded meta tags’

Check the embedded meta tags in your files.
All files must have:
‘Album Artist’ = ‘Dead or Alive’
‘Album Title’ = ‘Sophisticated’
there must be no other info in the ‘Album Title’ meta tag!
‘Disc number’ belongs into its own dedicated tag.

After making sure of the above, perform the Plex Dance
(with music, step 4 can be omitted)

[SmoothRunnings]

So I did this and matched the names of the albums up and again. disc 1 and disc 3 merged into 1 disc.

[OttoKerner]

Do all tracks have embedded meta tags for disc number and track number?

[SmoothRunnings]

That is correct. I also noticed the services that are used to identify the music are showing CD’s from the 1980’s but not the new 2016 box set CD. It would be nice to have a choice per album if I want it to use the services or simply have it ignore it. It certainly doesn’t care about all the settings you gave me to do, it continues to follow the services findings.

[OttoKerner]

Did you perform the Plex Dance exactly as written down in the link I gave above?

[SmoothRunnings]

Yes, that is correct.