After the latest patch, I imported new music into my plex library. I noticed that the Sort Album field is pulling in the Album Title, even though all my tags are correct and present.
Imported Before Patch:
Imported After Patch:
Current tags:
Live at Leeds:
Tommy:
Ideas?
Thanks,
Drew
File format?
‘Local Media Assets’ at the top position under
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
and
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Premium Music
and
Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - Personal Albums
‘Use embedded meta tags’ activated in the properties of the library?
Could you please post the Plex XML info of the first track of that album?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionTitle="Music" librarySectionUUID="ad586a37-4464-4cee-a6b7-3f64b83b49eb" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1531968318">
<Track ratingKey="131738" key="/library/metadata/131738" parentRatingKey="131737" grandparentRatingKey="59925" guid="com.plexapp.agents.plexmusic://gracenote/track/7345746-BD79FC2FD05DD1058FDC6C57994908CD/7345747-297376CCCF4D36657DD1A8B1E6B5F130?lang=en" librarySectionTitle="Music" librarySectionID="4" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/4" type="track" title="Heaven and Hell" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/59925" parentKey="/library/metadata/131737" grandparentTitle="The Who" parentTitle="Live at Leeds" summary="" index="1" parentIndex="1" ratingCount="128377" thumb="/library/metadata/131737/thumb/1533066937" parentThumb="/library/metadata/131737/thumb/1533066937" grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/59925/thumb/1533067779" duration="307853" addedAt="1533008540" updatedAt="1533070812">
<Media id="121447" duration="307853" bitrate="326" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="mp3" container="mp3">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="121534" key="/library/parts/121534/1531921483/file.mp3" duration="307853" file="P:\Media\Audio\Classic Rock\The Who\1970-Live at Leeds\101-Heaven and Hell.mp3" size="12557698" container="mp3" hasThumbnail="1">
<Stream id="193245" streamType="2" selected="1" codec="mp3" index="0" channels="2" bitrate="320" albumGain="-8.64" albumPeak="1.000000" albumRange="9.683743" audioChannelLayout="stereo" gain="-9.24" loudness="-8.76" lra="7.97" peak="1.000000" samplingRate="44100" displayTitle="Unknown (MP3 Stereo)"/>
<Stream id="193300" key="/library/streams/193300" streamType="4" codec="txt" format="txt" provider="com.plexapp.agents.lyricfind" displayTitle="Unknown (TXT)"/>
</Part>
</Media>
<Mood id="609" filter="mood=609" tag="Driving Dark Groove"/>
<Extras size="0"> </Extras>
</Track>
</MediaContainer>
Hm, that is a weird workaround you are using there for sorting albums. Wouldn’t it be more sensible to get the full release date correctly imported?
Did you previously have the same album in your library? You might have to Plex Dance the album in this case.
Workaround? I am not doing any workaround. I just added new music to Plex and it messed up the sort dates. I have all album dates correct, i.e. 1970-05-16 . I am very strict (■■■■-retentive) about the metadata on all my music and movies/tv before I add them to Plex.
I am saying that placing the release date into the field for the ‘sort title’ is actually a workaround.
You will then have to set Plex’s library sorting to ‘Title’ instead of ‘Newest First’ or ‘Oldest First’, if you want these ‘Sort Titles’ to be effective.
If you set the library sorting to ‘Newest First’, the content of the ‘Sort Title’ field is not used for sorting. Instead, the field ‘Originally Available’ will be used.
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