I’m trying to organize my music library and have a handful of songs that keep getting placed in the wrong folder after changing the name of the artist. They get sorting in a “Various Artists” bucket or end up going to the wrong artist after I change the name instead of creating a new Artist entry.
Preparation:
‘Local Media Assets’ in the topmost position!
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Most important is to have the Album Artist meta tag filled with sensible information.
After changing meta tags in files, you will have to perform the Plex Dance for Plex to pick up the changes.
Here are some tips regarding music
handling singles and EP’s
multi-disc albums
I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums:
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1.“Various Artists” is the usual choice for ‘Sampler’ style albums. There may be exceptions for ‘collaboration’ albums which are credited to all participating artists on the album cover.
2. use the title of the single as it appears on the cover. You can augment that information with (CDM) or (single) or (Maxi) or (EP) as it fits. If it is a genuine release, Gracenote should have no problem identifying it.
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possible ‘side car’ files for music
Little tip:
If you have lots of bootlegs etc. you want to bring your embedded metatags into order first.
Then you need to have the Local Media Assets agent in top position. I wouldn’t trust last.fm to fetch correct info about bootlegs and special editions of albums, like those recent expanded re-releases of Zappa albums.
Put as much info into the meta tags as possible. Put a cover art inside the album folder and you should be good.
Makes sure to set at least ‘AlbumArtist’ and ‘AlbumTitle’ to…
soundtracks and ‘various artists’
@naddel81 said:
album view does not work properly, because if you have various artists on an album (most cases) then it shows them as “various artists” instead of the album name. folder view would be the best option and I guess it has been asked before. is it too hard to implement?
You can put what you like into the AlbumArtist meta tag, if you don’t like it to appear under VA.
You could use the game title or the game developer or the game ‘universe’ (if you have several albums which fit in…
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May 28, 2019, 7:53pm
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