# Music library problem : album split; track separated **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [November 18, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618 "2016-11-18T22:40:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Demky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Demky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Demky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/1 "2016-11-18T22:40:01Z")
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** ); ![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/uploads/default/original/3X/0/c/0cb9ac7bbd197cdb3d585981228ba5be96b5fbb9.png) ---
**Author:** ![Demky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Demky](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Demky)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/2 "2016-11-18T22:41:34Z")
edit : edit ok I could edit forum message now since i reached lvl 2… need help for my problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/3 "2016-11-18T22:55:44Z")
This looks all OK. Did you add the album first into Plex, but corrected the metadata later? If so, perform the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/908454/#Comment_908454 "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. ---
**Author:** ![ElimGarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a183cd/32.png) [@ElimGarak](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ElimGarak)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/4 "2016-11-19T08:45:47Z")
I think it’s because you don’t have the same year for all the tracks. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/5 "2016-11-19T13:22:00Z")
> @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`) ---
**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/6 "2016-11-19T16:40:07Z")
‘1/3, 2/3, 3/3’ being the correct usage of ‘discnumber’ for a 3 disc set - for clarification. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/7 "2016-11-19T16:41:48Z")
> @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). ---
**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/8 "2016-11-19T16:44:55Z")
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) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/9 "2016-11-19T16:56:26Z")
> @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` 😉 abbreviation for “Flugabwehrkanone” (aircraft defence cannon) ---
**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/10 "2016-11-19T17:07:49Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/music-library-problem-album-split-track-separated/167618/12 "2020-01-07T22:14:59Z")