New Install Of PMS Not Cross Searching Libraries

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I have been using Plex for a little over a year. Got a new machine and followed the instructions to migrate the settings from one machine to another. For the most part, that went real smooth and I followed the instructions step by step. It didn’t carry over my playlists, so no biggie. I did remove the old library locations as it said to do and as I said, everything updated and so far so good …

System specs :
Im on a Mac / El Capitan is the OS / running the latest version of PMS

I just did a fresh install of PMS. I have a very large library and I use iTunes as my backend

After scanning for approx 2 1/2 days all 3 of my libraries Music / Movies / Compilations are all accounted for, indexed etc.

The server works great. One problem. I can’t get it to cross search the libraries and give me the results I had on my last install … that being … when searching for the band Bad Company, it showed me their studio albums (located in my music library) and also showed me the tracks available to me on some 1970s compilations (located in my compilations libarary) I have created.

Now when I do a search, its shows me only the studio albums … it won’t search the compilations library and show me those results.

The file structure in iTunes is

/music : contains all my music files

/music/compilations : Contains the folder within the music directory of all my albums that are compilations - This is how iTunes sets it up

When creating the Plex libraries I created one for

Music, having it look at and scan the music directory and all sub directories (of which compilations is part of)

and then created the compilations Plex library, having it scan only the /music /compilations folder and its contents

Any reason why the search won’t give me both the music albums for Bad Company as well as the results for the compilation albums?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

EB

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If you are referring to using the latest Plex Web v2.6.0, the new search will only show the top 3 of any media type. 3 movies, 3 shows, 3 episodes, 3 artist, 3 albums, 3 tracks. To get the full list, click on “see all results”. Except that the button doesn’t work correctly yet. It will give you the results as if you were using the old system. So this should get you similar results to before. The team is working on making that button bring up the full list of results based on the new search system, but it’s not done yet.

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Thanks so much for the info … That does make sense somewhat.

One other point / question … When Im looking thru the web app at the artist page, listing their albums, shouldn’t the compilation results of the artist appear on those pages as well?

Thank you again in advance for the info, its greatly appreciated

EB