Hello and thanks in advance for help! I have been a plex user for some time with movies, shows and music. I do not really use it much for music, but it is there. I have a friend who has a gigantic music collection that I am migrating to Plex for him. We are talking 1TB+ from multiple exter…

For albums of the type you are describing; -Album Artist Field Populate this with either the name of the DJ that compiled the album, or "Various Artists" if it is some other album that is just a compilation. -Part of a Compilation Check this box if your metadata editor has it. Shouldn't be neces…

So…I’m confused. Plex doesn’t seem to have the options I want to sort my music the way I like it, which is the way I was able to do it in iTunes. By the by, I no longer use any local music player/organizer. I want to do Artist (singer/band) first, then by albums belonging to that artist. In my Wind…

‘Album Artist’ ist Not the person who designed the album cover. It is the artist name that appears on the front cover of the album. So in the case of your Yes album, the Album Artist is ‘Yes’. For a ‘sampler’-type album, the Album Artist is usually ‘Various Artists’. Consequentially, this album …

I have a pretty large music library (about 100GB) that I’d like to add to plex and I think it makes sense to add to this conversation as it is related to folder and file naming conventions (especially regarding Artists vs Album Artists). I plan to use software (such as Picard) to rename my music fil…

Give the linked posts in this posting a good read: [image] Music Sorting Naming Metadata Tips & Compilations/Poster Issues General Discussions Notice the screenshots in this post, how to configure Plex to use your embedded meta tags as the primary source of meta data. Mo…

This was excellent help. Thank you! I’ve been going through my tracks in batches and it seems to be working well. One question/issue: As I’ve been using other software to tag and organize my tracks I will need to go back in because there are some cases where I have albums that are “explicit” albums…

[image] jefferson5436: How should the albums folders or individual tracks be labelled for Plex to distinguish between edited/explicit versions once I begin to set up my plex music library? Is Plex able to do that? If you incorporate the (explicit) label into both the folder name and the Album…

Thank you for your help on this. I’m excited this is all coming together!

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OttoKerner October 24, 2018, 9:53pm 6

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