Music database corrupted

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G’Day

I have a strange problem with my music database in Plex…

On several albums, especially multi-disk albums, the track database is being corrupted. Instead of it listing the songs individually, it is grouping songs together and listing them multiple times, but if I look at the info on individual tracks, the origin file is listed correctly, but what is shown in Plex is a repeat of another song. I can have, say for one disk, five track 1, five track 2 and five track 3, not the 15 tracks that it is supposed to have.

All the correct data is in the files, so I have tried “Refresh Metadata”, but this does nothing.

The solutions that I have found are:

  1. go through each individual album, look up the source file for each track and correct the title and artist for each track - this is going to make it a hell of a job, considering that I have 662 albums.
  2. delete the albums and re-scan the new database. I have done this with individual albums and this corrected the metadata showing in Plex, but there are problems with this too… There is no means to remove an album from the database without deleting the source files (yes, I can easily move the files and then delete and then move them back). Also, when you delete an album, it removes those entries from the playlists that I have painstakingly created. Seeing as how Plex does not have the facility to back-up, or create a copy of the playlist, this will mean that I will have to re-create all of my playlists, if I completely refresh the database.

In iTunes, you could create a copy of the playlist, refresh the database, and then redo all playlists. Let me point out that I am using Plex because I find it to be superior to iTunes, except on this point.

So, how can I get Plex to re-look at the files to update the metadata? Or, how can I refresh the music database, without losing all of my playlists?

Thanks in advance…

Franz

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I’m finding similar problems. The only way I can get multi cd albums to work correctly is to tag each disc to be disc 1 with one total disk. This lists each disc separately, of course, but seems to avoid plex putting random tracks into some of my collections.

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G’Day

That is a solution…a work around for misfunctioning software, but…

I am just now fixing up another 2-CD album which WAS entered as one cd with 42 tracks, instead of 2 CDs. The software took it upon itself to try and turn it into a 2 CD album (obviously from some internet reference) and screwed up in the process.

I go to all the trouble to make sure all my metadata in the tracks are correct before adding them to the Plex database, but then Plex takes it upon itself to fix track numbers, change album art and a list of other corrections.

If I’m an idiot and I want the software to do this for me…I’d buy an APPLE!

Please, allow us to set up our own metadata and DON’T overwrite it.

AND allow us to create an uploadable dump of our playlists…please.

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