Hi all.
I’ve just added an album into an existing artist’s folder. The tracks are named “01 track01.mp3 - 02 track02.mp3” and so on. Exactly the same way as all other albums are named.
First: I expected Plex to automatically re-scan, since I configured it to do so. But it didn’t.
Second: I ran the scan manually again, and the album did not appear.
Can anybody help me finding out where the issue is?
Thanks,
Flavio.
That is very bad style, to have all tracks just named 01 track01
Do you have also subfolders for each album inside of an Artist folder?
Do your files have all necessary meta tags filled with sensible content?
Here is an example for both folder and file names and the embedded meta tags.
Hallo Otto.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I do have subfolders for each album inside an artist folder.
Now, let me add some history to my “case”… I was using iTunes on OS X, which I was synchronizing via rsync onto my NAS. So iTunes would actually take care of creating the folder and file structures (Artist folder, album subfolders, track numbering and naming). Most probably, iTunes also might’ve done also something with the ID3 tags?!
Anyway, I now have just added an album directly into the folder structure on my NAS, without iTunes (because I’m getting rid of iTunes in favor of Plex).
The whole story, just to prove that tracks named “01 track01.mp3” have always worked within Plex.
Anyway: is there an official guideline for music in Plex (naming)?
Should I add the relevant ID3 tags and then re-scan the folder?
Why would Plex server not re-index when I add new albums?
Thanks und Danke!
F.
Hi again Otto.
I checked with mp3tag and it looks like this:
Thanks - also for replying to my other questions in my previous reply.
F.
I added the “album name” and “artist name” on each track. Still, Plex is not picking this album up.
Some of these tracks are lacking all meta tags. Particularly when adding some more obscure music, you want to have them as completely as possible.
Provide at least:
In general, I cannot recommend you to use the ID3v2.4 version of meta tags.
Stick to ID3v2.3 with UTF-16
Hi Otto.
I’ve managed to set the tags you suggested. Still no luck with Plex re-scanning the contents.
I’m actually working on the album “Senza vergogna”, which is using ID3v2.3 - but all other albums are perfectly known by Plex.
I also verified the chmod and chown seettings on the filesystem - all is identical to the existing albums.
Can you help more on this?
F.
Do you have another screen shot from mp3tag for me, of the status quo?
Here you go:
Question: at which folder level do you have your music library pointed at?
It should be exactly /Volumes/music. Not just /Volumes and also not /Volumes/music/Sick Tamburo.
May I see the content of the `` guid="…` property, from the Plex XML info of one of the tracks which are recognized by Plex?
Do you have ‘Prefer local metadata’ activated in the properties of your music library? (If you don’t, please don’t change it, yet.)
Yes, the music library points at the “music” folder:
Please ignore the fact that it is called “volume1” - this is how it’s seen by Plex on my NAS and it works.
Please find the XML file attached.
Yes, I’m using “prefer local metadata” as of now. I did not touch it yet.
F.
18988.xml.txt (2.1 KB)
What have you selected for Scanner and Agent under the ‘Advanced’ tab in the library properties?
These should be both ‘Plex Music’.
Should I change them both to “Plex Music”?
If you don’t, you will be stuck at the old music program code, which is no longer maintained. So I’d say, Yes.
After you did this, you may have to wait for a longer time, while Plex is scanning your library.
Give it plenty of time to do that.
Afterwards, ‘Refresh Metadata’ of the artist Sick Tamburo.
OK - now some things changed. And not to be better… 
First: under the artist name “Sick Tamburo” I now see 4 albums.
This is absolutely wrong.
The first album from 2009 is OK.
The second album “STS November 2017” is completely wrong. This is an album which has not been released, it’s been recorded by me and some friends of mine. How is it possible that it gets “assigned” to Sick Tamburo?
The third album is also wrong. In fact, it contains all 10 tracks belonging to the album called “Senza vergogna”, but an 11th track slipped in - again, a track of a personal project of mine (no known artist).
The last album also is wrong - it contains 4 tracks, which actually belong to the same project you see in the screenshot above.
I did not get through the rest of the library, but I fear that there are many more mishaps here!
What do you suggest?
Thanks,
F.
You have “prefer local metadata” enabled, but wav files don’t have metadata. So you cannot define reliably where those will appear.
Either disable “prefer local metadata” again.
Or (IMHO better) convert it to flac format and add proper metadata.
Thank you Otto for spotting WAV files - I didn’t take that into account.
I’ve converted them into appropriate format FLAC and now it looks much better.
Thanks again for your time! Really appreciated!
F.
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