Server Version#: 1.18.1.1973
Player Version#: 3.104.2
Hello,
since server version 1.18 I noticed the following:
If I add new songs to my music database on my QNAP and then update the PLEX music library with “Scan Library Files”, then for each track that does not have a title number (which means: the tag “title no.” is empty), a new album is created.
The songs are neatly stored on my QNAP, in the folder structure “Artist” / “Album name” / “Song name” (possibly with track number before song name). Also, all files are tagged clean, with just these three tags (possibly plus track number) in the files. Therefore, in PLEX the option “Prefer local metadata” checked.
“Scanner” and “Agent” are “Plex Music”.
An example:
I have three songs from Michael Jackson that I can not assign to a “normal” album, and therefore I assigned them to the album “Various songs by Michael Jackson”. The tag “title no.” of the three songs is empty, the album tag of the three tracks is “Various songs by Michael Jackson”, and the artist tag is “Michael Jackson”.
After adding these three songs to my QNAP and updating with “Scan Library Files”, PLEX creates three new albums, all called “Various songs by Michael Jackson,” each containing one of the three songs
Before Server version 1.18, just one album was properly created, and all three songs were added to this album.
Now I have to manually put together these three albums, so that everything is right again.
For “standard” albums with track numbers, this error does not occur. When I add an album with e.g. ten songs, where the songs have the track numbers 1 to 10, right only one album is created with these ten songs.
I hope that this mistake will be fixed soon, as currently a lot of manual rework is required.
