Windows 10 Server Version#: 1.19.5.3112
I’m adding old radio programs. I want to put them in their own library, not under Music. I created a folder “Old Radio Programs” and put them there. Plex isn’t picking up the names correctly. What’s the proper way to name these? For example, Abbott and Costello and I have a show titled “Who’s On First”. I have my structure as this:
/Old Radio Programs
/Abbott and Costello
Who’s On First.mp3
Plex finds the file but puts it in a Various Artists group with Unknown Album and the title is blank. I tried following the music example like this but got the same results:
/Old Radio Programs
/Abbott and Costello
/Show
01-Who’s On First.mp3
Any suggestions? Thanks!
You will probably have to edit the MP3 tags in much the same way you edit them for music. If you have ever had to deal with Audio Books, it is the same thing. Just put Abbott and Costello in the Artist and Album Artist field and Who’s On First as the Album name. It may still not pick it up (probably won’t) so you may have to manually add some artwork.and adjust the artist.
In addition, if may be of some benefit to create a new library just for these programs, then set the entire library to Personal Media and Prefer Local Metadata then embed your local artwork. Depending how many you have.
Unless you take Plex out of the equation - trouble could linger.
You’ll still have to structure, name and tag stuff like Music:
Music Library Folder/
...Abbot and Costello/ <---Artist
..... Who's on First/ <-----Album
...........track
for instance, and there’s no shortage of user discomfort in the ‘Audio Books’ area, but there does seem to be a workable work-around in here somewhere… although I’ve never tackled it myself.
I do have Plex banned from my music entirely… so I can attest to that working, at least. I structure, name and tag stuff - it shows up instantly and Plex doesn’t try to do anything to it. I would say that would be the first step.
I thought about that but I’ve got a lot and didn’t want to manually edit all of them. I think I’ve found something that works.
I take the folder out of the Plex structure and sync the library so it’s removed. I make sure I’ve got the folder named with the show and the mp3’s with the title of that show. I put the folder back in the Plex structure, sync the library and Plex finds it. It still says Various Artists, but now the titles are all correct. I edit the group giving the Artist and Album the name of the radio show and save.
Would be nicer if Plex would come up with a structure for this, and Audio Books. But this is easier than editing the metadata for each mp3.
Thanks for the comment though, good to know I wasn’t missing something obvious!
Thanks for the info. See my previous reply for the solution I found. Again, good to know I wasn’t missing something obvious here. 
If your folder names and file names are always following the same structure, you can use a software tool to read those and write them into the files as meta tags.
My preferred tool for this is mp3tag.
Neat! I’ll have to check that out. Thanks much!
