Here is a screenshot of my albums from the group Boston:
Here you can see that there are two copies of the album Boston and three copies of the album Don’t Look Back. The Boston album I have 2 versions of, one from 1986 and the other is the 2006 remaster. Don’t Look Back, I have the 1986 CD release, the 1982 Japanese CD release, and the 2006 remaster.
My library is set to use tags, and all the dates are tagged properly in the tags, so the dates should be correct.
For this to work, you must rely on your internal tags over the info from gracenote.
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Plex Premium Music
grab the line ‘Local Media Assets’ and pull it upwards, so it ends up on top of the list
Do also follow best practices of folder organisation and file naming.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
Make sure that the embedded meta tags (esp. AlbumTitle) of your files are actually different for the two versions of the album.
AlbumArtist must be present
After you corrected metatags and file and folders, perform the Plex Dance (for music you can omit step 4)
Only add one version of an album into Plex at once.
I really don’t want the album title to be different. I tag everything using beets.
OK, local assets is at the top of the list. I use unique folders for this stuff, but not unique filenames. AlbumArtist is definitely present.
Preforming the Plex dance is going to get old…
@apastuszak said:
I really don’t want the album title to be different. I tag everything using beets.
AlbumTitle must be different. Otherwise how should Plex know to keep the files apart and show you 2 albums instead of one?
Append something to the original album title, like ‘Album Title - Super Duper Special edition’
That way you’ll still recognise the album but it is different enough so it doesn’t merge into the original album release.
