PLEX is messing up my Music library organisation

[s_wey_me_com]

I just started scanning in my FLAC music library but PLEX keeps changing the names of albums and musicians, even splitting some albums up randomly and changing album artwork - it’s very annoying, how do you stop it doing this? I already have it setup how I want it by folder/subfolder so would prefer to browse by that, a lot of my stuff is rare and bootlegged etc so not in databases so any attempt to match stuff is bound to fail so I would prefer that it just didn’t.

Also how do I fix what it has already messed up?

[OttoKerner]

Make the configuration changes detailed in this post: Best way to add album, singles & ep to a Premium Music Library - #8 by OttoKerner

Verify that your music is organised in this folder structure

/Music
   /Artist Name
      /Album Title
         01. Track Artist - Track Title.flac
         02. Track Artist - Track Title.flac

Verify the embedded meta tags of your files:

1. The content of the meta tags Album Artist and Album Title must be identical in every track of a given album. Which means that ‘Disc 1’ etc don’t belong into the Album Title meta tag. There is a separate meta tag for the disc number.
2. If you have different Track Artists within the same album, the ‘Album Artist’ meta tag must exist and must contain the same content for all tracks of the album.
3. If the meta tags Track No. and/or Disc No. are existing, the must exist in all tracks of one album.

After you changed file names, folder names, or meta tags, you must perform the Plex Dance

Here are some more tips regarding music

multi-disc albums

Organizing Music - Soundtracks and Various Artists (Hit collections)

I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums: ===== 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. …

possible ‘side car’ files for music

Music Album artwork

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’

Plex Folder View - folder.jpg not recognized?

@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…

[s_wey_me_com]

Thanks but I just want to turn it off and browse by folder. I don’t need Plex telling me how to organise my library, it’s already organised how I want it. I just don’t want it messing that up.