So, I separate my music by groups, I have female, male, jazz, etc all in their respective libraries. I deleted my soundtrack library by mistake, so I went ahead and created the library again and scanned the hard drive to add my soundtracks back (note, that this is the same drive that I used on my original scan and nothing was changed this time around), but the scans have been chaotic to say the least, many soundtracks are mixed together which look normal until you take a closer look and find that you have themes from different movies under one tittle, some times the numbers are in order, but the music belongs to different movies. I would say I have about 40 soundtracks mixed up this way. Again, the tag is the same from my first scanning 2 years ago.
Anything I can change in the settings to fix this?
The acoustic fingerprinting which has saved many a library in the past is not available currently. It will still take a few weeks until the new music code is ready to be released.
Until then, Plex can only rely on embedded metadata. And these have to be in top shape.
Important for ‘sound track’ albums (which are very often credited to ‘Various Artists’):
Always put in an AlbumArtist tag.
For an album to “hold together” in Plex, all tracks of this album need to have the same content in the ‘AlbumTitle’ and the AlbumArtist meta tags.
Fill in the DiscNumber tag in all tracks if you have a multi-disc album.
After editing the metatags, you’ll very often have to perform the Plex Dance “light” (omit step 4), for Plex to recognise the changes.
(This will no longer be needed after the new code is released, btw.)
