Server Version#:1.42.2.10156
Player Version#: 4.147.1
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>
Can you perform the plex dance and then upload a copy of your server logs and the name of the file?
Hello, thanks, I have done the Plex Dance and uploaded the server logs for your reviewing enjoyment. The issue is with several “Skinny Puppy” albums that I ripped into one .flac file. The ones I did song-by-song are all fine, but Plex doesn’t like the one track albums. Thanks in advance!
Maybe dbirch can find something in there, but I’ll suggest this.
Some time between 9am and 11pm, do the following:
- Move the three single track FLAC albums from Skinny Puppy, like Puppy Gristle out of your library, then Scan, Empty Trash, Clean Bundles, and Optimize Database.
- Don’t put those three albums back in yet.
- Stop PMS, then start PMS and let it idle a couple of minutes to rotate and make a clean set of startup logs.
- Disalbe auto scanning library when media is added.
- Add Puppy Gristle and the other two back into your lossless library.
- Do a manual scan of your lossless library only.
- Grab logs and share.
While it’s okay to zip up everything, in reality only the logs timestamped at the time of the restart or after that time are relevant.
It looked to me like your Butler Tasks around 3am filled the logs and overwrote the intake of those problem albums, making it hard to understand what went wrong.
Please also let us know what music Agent and Scanner are set for your lossless library.
Please show us the set of metadata tags on your Puppy Gristle FLAC file.
Please be aware that certain combinations of tags, scanner, and naming conventions will make matching impossible.
My first thought is that you’ve been too lax with the above while complicating things with a single track that has a duration in excess of what is known for the tracks of that album based on the database for it at MusicBrainz and with a fingerprint that doesn’t match either.
Good luck!
@AqualityEnv Plex is seeing Skinny Puppy/1991-Ain't It Dead Yet/aintitdead.flac not sure what other files may be missing, I would look at GitHub - ChuckPa/DBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases Keep in mind Plex isnt designed for 1 album per file. The logs rotated before with other data so the info I asked for about the Plex Dance is missing. But I suspect that Plex is reading the file, but is just miss-labeling it. You might check Releases · WebTools-NG/WebTools-NG · GitHub and use that to search for filenames
Thanks very much, I’ll look into both of these!
as far as I know, plex has never properly supported single flac album files (all tracks in a single file), although it should show up in the library, it likely won’t correctly match metadata.
My guess is that it is not matched or not matched correctly, you can try browsing with the file mode view and navigate to the folder, it should be there, then you can attempt to match or manually add the metadata.
First off, thanks everyone for your helpful comments. Much appreciated. Linux is a bit over my head, so instead I re-worked the problem. I was albe to use Foobar to split the single file into the respective tracks, save and VIOLA, Plex does what Plex does best! All works great. (FYI I couldnt’ get cue tools to do this, but Foobar was flawless (right click on the flac.cue file open with Foobar, select all and CONVERT). Y’all are the best.
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