So I imported my iTunes library into Plex so i would be able to listen to my stuff when I’m not at home. However, I’ve run into something that makes playing some albums a bit of a pain, and can’t seem to find the right way to find what I need to do to have it behave as I desire.
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as example … I have one album (2 discs, 53 songs). However, since its a soundtrack album, the artist is different for some of the tracks. And Plex is seperating them by the artist, thus the appearance in the screenshot instead of all 53 tracks being under a single item.
I would very much like to know if there is a way to have those types of albums searchable under just their title so the artist name doesn’t break them up into seperate items?
OK, I discovered the Merge feature … it was hidden until you select multiple items. Is that pretty much the solution?
All albums with different artists per track (Track Artist) must have a common ‘Album Artist’ meta tag. This is what keeps the album ‘together.’
@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…
Here are some more tips regarding music
multi-disc albums
I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums:
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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.
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handling singles and EP’s
possible ‘side car’ files for music
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…
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January 26, 2019, 4:19pm
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