Plex Music Scanner is set to expect to find song titles in albums. This is fine if you have the whole album, the album info etc. But not good for singles. also having full albums is now the exception to the way people consume music in these days.
And so I found I was getting a lot of [Unknown Album] tags.
So I edited the Plex Music Scanner.py
So that lines 41 & 42 are:
if album == None or len(album.strip()) == 0:
album = title
So that is no album info is found then it uses the title instead of adding [Unknown Album].
This has the advantage that the Lastfm agent then also will feed either album art or single art work instead of getting the Unknown Album art work.
HOWEVER I found the the PLEX server will note that the scanner has been changed and 'fix' it back to it original code!
To create your own scanner you need to create a "Scanners/Music" directory, copy the one you want to modify and then change your library to point to the new scanner.
On Linux you'd start in the directory: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/
You'll have to create a new folder named "Scanners" and then sub-folders in there for each scanner type you want to use (Movies, Series, Music).
for me, Plex completely HIDES any tracks without an album title, which drives me crazy.
Is this what you are trying to fix? I want to edit the scanner to where it gives it a temporary title that will show up such as “Unknown Album”.
Is this possible?
