Can someone explain what the “Sort Album” field is used for, Haven’t found anything in the manual, nor here in the forum.
Plex sorts your albums alphabetically by default. It follows the typical rules for sorting, such as an album name starting with “The” would not sort on “The,” but on the next word.
In the case of an album beginning with “The,” Plex automatically populates the Sort Album field, so if you have such an album, you can see it. Looks like this:
There’s a similar “Sort Artist” field in Artist view. Plex annoyingly sorts artists based on First-Last, rather than the more accepted Last-First method. You can fix that using the Sort Artist field.
Thanks, that sorts that one out.
One other thing I’m stumbeling on is file-naming for audio-files.
How do I get an album with multiple volumes (i.e an Album with more than one disc) sorted under the same album-name and under the correct disc.
As it is now, they show up as different albums.
Yeah, that may take a little more work. Plex gets that information from Gracenote for Premium music libraries, and last.FM for Basic libraries. Both of those services are pretty unreliable for multi-disc albums, and even worse for classical music. It was so bad, I finally gave up on letting Plex use Gracenote/last.FM.
My solution, and this is where the work comes in, was to make sure the embedded ID3 tags in my music files were in good shape, then I configured Plex to use the embedded tags instead of Gracenote or last.FM. I had to manually go through all my albums with an ID3 tag editor. It took several weeks to get them all whipped into shape, but, once done, the headaches like the one you describe are gone.
Yeah, I figured so.
Going through all the ID tags as well, after that I guess I have to delete the whole library and add it again.
Btw, dos PLEX take albumart from ID-tags as well, or…
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
@TomasL said:
Btw, dos PLEX take albumart from ID-tags as well, or…
Yes, you need to activate the ‘Local Media Assets’ agent.
