Music Album View Showing Duplicate for Multiple Formats - How to Fix?

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Hi, this is probably a really easy question to figure out, but I can’t.
If I have an album, say, “White Album” and I have it in both MP3 and FLAC - it displays two albums in Album view. Problem is that I have to go into each album, and “Get Info” for a file to know if it’s the FLAC or MP3 version.

For videos, when I have a regular and 3d version of the movie, it often puts a little “2” or “3” on the corner and lets me choose what version of movie to watch.

Any help appreciated thanks.

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I also want to do something that I can choose MP3 or FLAC version.

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The idea is that you have the album only as FLAC and Plex transcodes to mp3 on-demand (sync to device or streaming). The resources required for encoding are so little that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to store the low-quality encodes permanently.

Now I’m not saying that’s ideal, but this concept of encoding-on-sync it’s more or less the road that other music libraries are also going.

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