...Nothing Like the Sun not being recognized and added to the library

General Discussions
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I can’t seem to get the Sting album …Nothing Like the Sun to be picked up by Plex. Yes, the proper name of the album includes the leading ellipses.

All my tags are correctly matching MusicBrainz.

https://musicbrainz.org/release/6092bfb8-30a0-3236-851a-94946307795d

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

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Please show the names and structure exactly as you have them (screen shot is fine to attach here).

We can look and see what you might have done.

Also, be advised, if there is errant metadata (tags) in the files, PMS will read these tags and could easily result in a non-match

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Leading dots are a no no for folder names. At least in Plex.
You can leave the dots in the embedded metadata, but remove them from the album’s folder name.

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Thanks Otto.
Yes, leading dots in the folder name were the problem. EAC just created the folder based on the artist and album name and that is a perfectly valid Windows and Linux filename. Of course the first two entries you get from FindFirst and FindNext when walking a directory tree are “.” and “…” which are shortcuts for current directory and parent directory. It is best to ignore these explicitly but Plex probably is using a substring search that returns true if the folder names contains any match.

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What an amazing coincidence that this was posted and answered just a couple days ago. I ran into it tonight while ripping old albums. I figured it was some result of linux-style file naming where dotfiles are “hidden” files. Since this structure is a perfectly valid windows path though, shouldn’t Plex be able to see/recognize it? Seems like everyone’s going to have the same question… and it’s a pretty common album… and I hate it when my filenames don’t match the al;bums they’re supposed to… but I’ve renamed for now.

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@dbharsh said:
Since this structure is a perfectly valid windows path though, shouldn’t Plex be able to see/recognize it?

I guess here is the cross-platform nature of Plex showing through:
It not only runs on Windows, but also on MacOSX, FreeBSD, Android, Linux (and several derivative OS platforms).

This is a tiny indication that you cannot adapt a software perfectly to any platform. Some small niggles will remain.
Maybe this will get adressed in a later software release.

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You know, I’d forgotten that the plex server is also supported on linux. I guess they’d have to add a “-a” in order to pick up any hidden directories, and that would annoy folks who want to have hidden dotfiles there for some reason.