Music Duplicates, Merge, & Missing Local Art (it's there, but Plex skips it)

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Here’s a three-parter:

  1. Any way to find duplicates in a Plex Music library? I know how to do it in iTunes, but I’ve merged several iTunes libraries into one Plex library. Need to find those dupes on the Plex side!

  2. If we have multiple versions of an album, like a FLAC and MP3 version (yes, there are reasons for this), any way to merge them like what happens on the video side of things?

  3. Lastly, I’m having issues where when I add a large number of albums to a Plex library, sometimes it skips over the album art even though I have art embedded into every single one of my albums that I rip. I have all the agents point toward Local Assets first. So I don’t know why this keeps happening:

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@trumpy81 said:

  1. No, too many albums have duplicate tracks that are a legitimate part of each album.

Actually… It’s not that difficult, especially since the filenames would be different. iTunes can do it, and we all know how limiting that software is.

  1. No, it is difficult to rename the files to something suitable without breaking the ability to match the file/album. Place flac files in a Flac library, mp3 files in an mp3 library etc…

I don’t understand what this has to do with what I asked. If I have two movie files in different formats, Plex can merge them into the same listing no problem. In fact it works too well sometimes, and I have to manually break out different versions of the same film (for example) into their own listing.

When I rip a CD, I rip it simultaneously to a FLAC, ALAC, and MP3 V0 file. All the filenames are identical. So, in my specific instance, it should be incredibly simple to do. Where it would become more challenging is if you have collected funky files over the years and keep dumping everything into the same location without a lot of media management. I happen to be pretty OCD with my media management, so again, in my case, this should be easy for Plex to do, I would think.

  1. Missing album art usually occurs when Plex is unable to match the album or if you are having connection difficulties with the various online databases or if no artwork is available or if too many requests are being made to the online databases. Hitting Refresh Metadata usually corrects the problem once Plex has stopped scanning etc…

Plex shouldn’t have to match the album art when I’ve got all my album art embedded on each file as I stated above. Several of these I have to manually switch over to have art, even though it can see them in the poster list. So, this seems like a bug to me.

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