@shrtstck that’s cool, though I think our conversation may be more the same than you’re giving it credit. While I don’t use the same schema you are, I do have my metadata pretty buttoned down. I use the commercial release name as the sorting scheme. When I look at my collection with another tool (Swinsian on MacOS) it shows the album as I expect, with the Swinsian indicating that I’ve got 498 albums.
that wouldn’t be a plexamp issue, rather a server/matching thing. you can split those albums up by selecting the tracks and then editing the metadata to put them in separate albums, e.g.
if you don’t have prefer embedded metadata enabled on your library, you might find that fixing an incorrect match can help.
also, remember that plex treats files in the same directory as being in a single album, so that may be the reason for some of the grouping you’re seeing.
Hi @elan thanks for the reply. I realize that PlexAmp is only showing what Plex tells it to.
I do have prefer embedded metadata enabled on this library, and the directory structure matches the view I’m trying to see in Plex/PlexAmp. Further, metadata is complete across my entire library.
Which matches the view I see in Swinsian seen in the above comment. So, I’m not really sure where things are falling apart by the time Plex renders the library.
if you can reproduce in a small library (e.g. grab the two directories which are incorrectly merging, make a new library just pointed at them), then you could upload them for us to look at.
Just to be absolutely sure, you are using the “Prefer local metadata” option on the library?
I’ll work on creating a small library. Do you want me to share the actual library (76GB in the case of Grateful Dead), or create a Plex share and invite you to it?
