# Plex splits a single-disc album

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-splits-a-single-disc-album/722726>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-splits-a-single-disc-album/722726 "2021-06-15T17:21:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-splits-a-single-disc-album/722726/8 "2021-06-16T14:45:47Z")

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> [@VarHyid](#):
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> So you insist that Plex is unable to read this data in an .mka file?

Yes, I am sure of it.

> [@VarHyid](#):
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> I was testing this very meticulously to make sure some other change wouldn’t affect the results so how is it technically possible that the tag that’s not being read by Plex allowed Plex to understand the track numbers? I’m just curious. Do you have a theory?

It might have been the act of changing the files, or their names , or their folder structure.

Or perhaps you were performing the [Plex Dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) “lite” unconsciously.

Or did you at one time disable the preference “prefer local metadata”, which then would have caused plex to prefer its sonic fingerprinting for identification of the album.

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