Multi disc albums

[linesy]

Server Version#: 1.41.0.8992
Player Version#: 4.138.0
I’m sure this has been covered hundreds of times, but I didn’t find anything recent, so I wonder if anything changed?

I just uploaded an album I own to my library and its not displaying correctly.
I’ve already used MP3Tag and Picard to fettle the parameters, but Plex is still grouping the album in one lump!

I used .wav when i ripped to get uncompressed;

Is this the underlying issue? I even changed the filenames to use a ‘101’, ‘201’ naming convention and make the distinction clearer.

Any pointers please, this is driving my OCD mad?

Thanks in advance,
Nick

[OttoKerner]

Plex cannot read metadata from wav files. I recommend you to use either FLAC or ALAC, depending the device ecosystem you have.
The quality is the same (i.e. lossless) and you save a bit of storage space too.

[linesy]

Thanks @OttoKerner my hunch was correct, I’ll re-rip later and close this off when it invariably works! ;D

[OttoKerner]

There is no need to re-rip. Just feed the wav through a compressor app or ffmpeg.

If you’re on Windows, I have a small batch file which can do that for you for all files within a folder.

[linesy]

Sure, I have a WIN PC on my network I can use, are you able to share a .bat with me?

[OttoKerner]

1. get eac3to from here: eac3to 3.52 / 1.3.4 GUI Free Download - VideoHelp
   Store it in a folder that is easy to find, I use C:\eac3to\ in my example, but any other folder is just fine.
2. copy the following into notepad.exe

for %%I in (*.wav) do ("C:\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "%%I" 1:"%%I.flac")

Ensure that the path to the eac3to.exe file is correct for your computer. (the stuff inbetween the first pair of quotation marks)
Save that as a .txt file. Then close notepad.exe and rename the .txt file. Change the file name extension from .txt to .bat

Now store this .bat file in a handy place. Whenever you have something to convert, copy it into the folder with the .wav files and double-click on it.

Afterwards, you will have a flac version plus a log file for each of the wav files.
Move out the flac versions into their own folder. (just for easier handling of the following)
Now open the folder with your wav files in mp3tag, select all of them, right click and select “Tag Copy”.

Now open the folder with the flac files in mp3tag, again select all files, right-click and select “Tag Paste”.
This will transfer all of your meta tags to your newly created flac files.

With all the tracks still selected in mp3tag, you can now use mp3tag’s Convert > Tag-Filename feature to beautify the file names. You could use $num(%track%,2) - %title% for single-disc albums and $num(%discnumber%,1)$num(%track%,2) - %title% for multi-disc albums.
Or for multi-disc compilations $num(%discnumber%,1)$num(%track%,2). %artist% - %title%.

[linesy]

Beautiful!

Plex is really good for organizing my music.
I really hate the UI in Picard though, can’t get used to it at all!