Hi all, I am trying to setup my Plex libraries and I am struggling with adding a folder that contains songs from multiple artists. Let me describe from beginning. I have collection of RIPped CDs to flac files with correctly filled ID3-Tags: artist, album artist, title, year, album art and so on. I…

[image] adam_arczynski_gmail_com: Files do not have the same album metatag - they come from multiple albums. I treat this folder as a playlist/favorites You can’t do that in Plex. It’ll never work, unless you also unify the album title tag.

New folder structure is required now: Music > Albumartist > Albumtitle > Tracks For “sampler”-style albums this means Music > Various Artists > Mega Mix 3 > Tracks If your files have embedded meta tags, make sure that each track has the same content in its ‘Albumartist’ tag. Usually “Various Art…

Thanks for a brief reply. Unfortunately this does not help much. It changes displayed album artist to “Various Artists” and that’s it. I can view by folders (and I can see my mega-mix-x subfolders) but displayed album art, album title and artist are wrong. When I switch view to Artist it shows one…

There is only one album cover support per album. All files in a folder are one album. All files in this folder need to have identical values in their ‘Album Artist’ and ‘Album Title’ metatags. Can you show me a screenshot with the embedded metadata of all files of one album? Did you point your t…

Test lib points to Music dir. Files do not have the same album metatag - they come from multiple albums. I treat this folder as a playlist/favourites. [5] My problem origin: I have Denon Heos Link HS2 which I stream music with to my Hi-Fi and Headphones. It is able to read files from USB pendrive…

I see. What would you suggest to create playlists in Plex then?

Playlists in Plex can be created in two ways: Assigning single tracks, albums or whole artists to a playlist manually create a filter and turn it into a ‘smart’ (auto-updating) playlist see [HowTo] Create Playlists (Updated for new UI)

Library view completely messed up when folder contains songs from multiple artists

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OttoKerner January 9, 2020, 10:28am 6

You can’t do that in Plex. It’ll never work, unless you also unify the album title tag.

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