One of the music artists I like only releases singles. How should I add this to my library?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.31.2.6783
Player Version#: Web 4.102.1

Since none of his songs have an associated album, I thought to just put all the tracks in the artist’s folder. Plex did not like this and got awfully confused. Should I just make a fake album called “Singles” and put everything in there?

I did some searching online but the most I found was reddit threads saying that plex cannot handle this and that I’m out of luck, so I figured I’d ask here myself.

The artist in question can be found here, if this info helps in guiding what I should do: S3RL - MusicBrainz

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No. Add them as Single releases. i.e. the same as albums. Use the release name as album name and use this name in both the folder name and the AlbumTitle metatag.

I can’t recommend you doing that. While it’s certainly possible, it will cause volume levelling to malfunction.

/Music <-- music library pointing here
   /S3RL
      /S3RL Presently Presents (2015)
         01 - tracktitle.mp3
         02 - tracktitle.mp3
         03 - tracktitle.mp3
         ...
      /S3RL Currently Presents (2017)
         01 - tracktitle.mp3
         02 - tracktitle.mp3
         03 - tracktitle.mp3
         ...

If you don’t like when Plex is ignoring singles and compilations for the Popular Tracks hub, consider overriding the album type via embedded meta tags as well (requires “Prefer local meta tags” to be activated). Thus turning all those singles and EPs and mixtapes into regular “albums”. Plex Media Server 1.27.2.5929 - support for release type embedded tags - #33 by certuna

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Plex seems a lot happier with this solution, thanks!

Unfortunately now it is really cluttering up my album list with single track “albums”. Is there any way around this? I want to keep my album list clean and full of actual albums. Otherwise I’m going to have a million S3RL “albums” in my album list.

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Settings - Server - Library - ‘Show Advanced’ - “Group albums by type” ← enabled

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This setting here? Looks like it is already enabled.
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Did you already apply the AlbumType override? If yes, I suggest you remove it again. Of all the releases of this artist, only “Remastered (2016)” should appear as regular album.

Which Plex client type are you using? Could you show a screen shot (whole screen please)?

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I cannot find the AlbumType override. The link you provided says something about an embedded tag but I only have 4 tags to choose from. Am I looking in the wrong place?

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Yes. But if you don’t know where to look, it means that you did not apply this workaround yet.
So it isn’t the cause.

Screenshot please of what is bothering you.

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I don’t want the singles to show up in my album list.

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You can’t prevent this. These are “releases”, just like everything else. If anything, the view mode in the app should be renamed to “Releases”

If they were removed from that list, how are you supposed to find them then?

I recommend looking at your library by Artist.

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I was planning on making a “S3RL” playlist and adding everything there. Things can still be found manually by setting the view mode to “Tracks” or “Folders”, right?

Anyways, thank you for your help!

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  • Click on the “All”, (in that bit “All - Albums - By Album Artist - 42”)
  • select Format → Album

You’ll now see only the albums. The EP, Single and Broadcast releases will be excluded.

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Thank you very much!

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