Plex Library showing Albums with Disc 1 and 2 as 2 separate albums in Thumbnail view

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Server Version#: Version 1.18.0.1944
Player Version#:

I have a plex library and music albums with 2 discs in each show up as 2 albums in the thumbnail view. How can I get this to show only 1 album instead of 2.

Thanks

JD

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Take a look at the advice in this post.

Note: With changes made in the 1.18 server release, the step that mentions “Plex Dance” can be ignored.

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Thank you.

My albums are renamed like this. Very close to the suggestion.
i am not sure what the solution is.
Some one has coded AudioFiles.py
Where does this go in the plex server folder ?

Music /
   Artist /
      Albumartist /
        Year -  Albumtitle /
            Disc 1 /
            1. %abbr tracktitle.mp3
            2. %abbr tracktitle.mp3
            ...
            Disc 2 /
            1. %abbr tracktitle.mp3
            2. %abbr tracktitle.mp3
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“Very close” may not be close enough. What does “%abbr” represent?

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%abbr is abbreviation of the title name. This way the file meta data is complete and the Windows file length restriction is dealt with.

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Okay. I would recommend modifying a 2-disc album to exactly meet the naming guidelines in the post I linked and see if Plex does better with it. The recent changes that made great improvements in metadata scanning also made it pretty picky about this, it seems.

Also, if you can edit the embedded tags and set the disc number field on all tracks, that would help too.

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Strange that PLEX depends on the format of the directory structure rather than the MetaData.
I will try for one album and see how it goes.
Thanks
JD

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