You are trying to bend the product to do something that it is not really intended to do.
No one is telling you that you are doing it wrong, but how many different ways can we tell you that the product is not really designed to work in that way?
Plex has crashed. Restart the PMS and it should continue where it left off.
Beyond that, my suggestion of making a few VERY large albums might be your best bet, but either way, you are going to HAVE to do some work to make the product bend at the seams to do something it really doesn’t want to do.
And lastly, I spent around 45 minutes of my time putting together that post [Please make Plex less controlling - #14 by axemanuk666] in order to try and help you out, only to have you disregard it in a blink!.. Nice!
I don’t listen to Albums either, but organised my library according to how Plex wants it. I use Plexamp for playback. It is a great device for genre based listening, artist radio, mood based listening. It’s very good and continually surprises me with it’s selections and music flows.
I’m sorry if I sound like I’m yelling. I’m rather frustrated because either I don’t understand what “feature request” means, or a number of responders don’t. I’d like to try anything that doesn’t require changing my folder or file names. Exactly what does “add albums to files” mean? 99% of my files already have album titles in the metadata. Thanks.
Axeman, I’m sorry that I offended you. I really thought that the entire point of a feature request was to bend a product to do something that it doesn’t currently do. I don’t want to be told how to organize my files. I thought I made that clear in my original post. If that you find that to be an unacceptable position, I’m sorry, but in that case, why don’t you simply ignore this topic?
From the number of “likes” your “Good luck mate” received, I can see that this is hopeless. The Plex user community clearly sees the current Plex model as godlike and takes criticism of it personally.
As I explained above, I did that. I also followed the instructions that beckfield gave to configure Plex, but that didn’t help. A very large number of tracks still show a blank artist field, incorrect album artist, and/or incorrect album. Plex doesn’t seem to be willing to use metadata if the folder and file structure and naming doesn’t conform to its expectations.
Well yeah, it needs help in the form of tags in the audio files. I use MP3tag to automate some of that by having it grab folder names and move them to either album or artist fields as needed. Some people use Filebot to do the same thing. To be perfectly honest, I’ve never been able to figure out how to make filebot work so I just run it through Mp3tag and do it myself. Does it take time? Sure. But you only have to do it once. Why isn’t PLEX smart enough to do it all by itself? Because folder structures are horrible ways to determine what songs are without the help of tag info. If they had a generic audio library type (something I have wanted for lectures and stuff) then you could pour them in there but you would still need to at least have the files tagged properly or no program will know what they are. Computers just aren’t that smart yet.
99% if my audio files already contain title [TIT2], artist [TPE1], album artist [TPE2], album [TALB], year [TYER], track [TRCK] and genre [TCON], as well as album art. I use Mp3tag also. Thanks.
