@tikilab
I’m currently using about the same file system for all my music, yet plex is selective about which multi disc albums is loads correctly, here is my current config.
any help would be appreciated
any help would be appreciated
@“mesonto@gmail.com” said:
What happened to the “Disc x labels” that used to display between discs in Plex??? They are gone, instead I get the tracks mushed together. (but in proper order) i.e. “1,2,3,4,5,6,1,2,3,4” When it should and used to be “Disc 1 1,2,3,4,5,6 Disc 2 1,2,3,4”.
I agree that was a good feature that was weirdly dropped for a while. However, it is now back in the latest version of Plex Media Server, apparently.
@jo666manson said:
@tikilab
I’m currently using about the same file system for all my music, yet plex is selective about which multi disc albums is loads correctly, here is my current config.
any help would be appreciated
You have to be careful about how the files are tagged in Plex. Just having them in a folder numbered “CD1” does not guarantee that it will be filed in Plex as a multi-disk recording. To fix that, you must go to Edit and (1) make sure that the names of all discs are the same, i.e., not XXXCD1, but XXX, and (2) make sure that the disc number is set to the correct number. Then all of the multi-disc recordings should be listed under one heading, by Disk 1, Disk 2, etc.
@jo666manson said:
@tikilab
I’m currently using about the same file system for all my music, yet plex is selective about which multi disc albums is loads correctly, here is my current config.
any help would be appreciated
It looks like you are relying on putting the files in folders instead of using the ID3 tags. Plex won’t be able to figure it out that way. The album should be organized like this:
Artist → Album → 1-01 Disc One Track One
Artist → Album → 1-02 Disc One Track Two
Artist → Album → 1-03 Disc One Track Three
Artist → Album → 2-01 Disc Two Track One
Artist → Album → 2-02 Disc Two Track Two
Artist → Album → 2-03 Disc Two Track Three
In other words, both discs should be in one folder, and you should use the ID3 tags to indicate Disc 1 and Disc 2.
Well guys, after wasting several hours testing on what and how exactly this thing works in / with Plex, I came to the following conclusion: it doesn’t matter that much on how you structure your media. However, metadata in flac/mp3/etc are much more important.
Now, you can fix these manually in plex too, but my experience is that you’d have to do that every time you need to re-add your album or when you rebuild your music db. Stating that you’ll never have to do that in future is simply too bold.
In that sense, I ended up using “meta” and “tag editor” (either of these would be OK) to fill in the missing “disc” info, track order, consolidate album titles, artists release years, and guess what: plex does exactly what’s expected 
Screenshot of an old multidisc album edited by meta:
The structure I’m using is quite standard, e.g. music/year/artist_-_album-other-meta:
I’m hoping this will help some of you still struggling with this.
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Yes, i agree. Metadata is the more convenient way to organize your library.
Here an example of metadata management in MediaMonkey :
Then, you can easy rename your files :
Finally, Plex recognize easily your tags :
Note that I deliberately did not put the disk number in the rename path, it’s just a simple preference from me.
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I’ve been using Plex for several years now…mostly for videos. But lately I’ve been recording TV (gotta love the commercial removal) and now I’m really trying to organize my music. I’ve tried at least 10 different programs to rip my cds and think I finally found the one that works best for me called Express Rip. What is the reasoning behind using a track number if it’s only a 1 disc album?
My current setup: \artist\album\2 digit track number + track name
Track is not Disc.
Track is track (some call it ‘song’ instead).
Most CDs have several tracks or songs on them.
