Music library problem : album split; track separated

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Hi,

I have a probleme with Plex and musique library… it doesn’t recognise a "full album; look; I have 0 problem with my album on iTune; it shouldn’t be a problem with my tag

The albums are split without any reason (I don’t even know where is the 80 in : // compilation 80’s // from…:

First album 100% Top Hits Vol.2 is track 1 to 6 and second album is track 7 to 40…

My tags ( as you can see all the files got the same album name );

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edit : edit ok I could edit forum message now since i reached lvl 2… need help for my problem :slight_smile:

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This looks all OK.
Did you add the album first into Plex, but corrected the metadata later?
If so, perform the Plex Dance (with music, you can omit step 4)

side note:
for compilations, the Album Artist name should be Various Artists
This is because the default album sorting order is “alphabetically, ascending” for Various Artists
but it is “by release years, descending” for all other Album Artists.

side note 2:
some of your track title names start with a ‘space’ character.

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I think it’s because you don’t have the same year for all the tracks.

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@ElimGarak said:
I think it’s because you don’t have the same year for all the tracks.

I can’t confirm this. I have many sampler albums where every track has a different year (the year when the track was originally recorded/released). This works well.

Meta tags which are supposed to be uniform among all tracks of an album are:

  • AlbumArtist
  • AlbumTitle <— (must not contain a notation of a ‘Disc number’)
  • if present, the ‘RecordLabel’ tag
  • on multi-disc albums, all tracks must have a ‘disc number’ set, all tracks must use the same style of disc number notation (e.g. 1 vs. 1/1)
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‘1/3, 2/3, 3/3’ being the correct usage of ‘discnumber’ for a 3 disc set - for clarification.

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@JuiceWSA said:
‘1/3, 2/3, 3/3’ being the correct usage of ‘discnumber’ for clarification.

Only in mp3 tags.
For Flacs there are special ‘totaldiscnumber’ and ‘totaltracknumber’ tags (which are being ignored by Plex anyway).

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A’ight.

Note to self: Keep avoiding flack (it has a completely different meaning for those in my generation and is surely something pilots should avoid even though I am not one)

:slight_smile:

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@JuiceWSA said:
Note to self: Keep avoiding flack (it has a completely different meaning for those in my generation and is surely something pilots should avoid even though I am not one)

The correct spelling for that would be Flak :wink:
abbreviation for “Flugabwehrkanone” (aircraft defence cannon)

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Note to self:

Don’t call Flak, Flag… for some reason those pesky Germans went right by the g directly to the k. No wonder I need sub-titles when they’re speaking - close just isn’t good enough. :smiley: