When I have multiple disc sets, I change my file names to Disc#Track# - Title - Artist.flac, and generally put all of the files in one folder rather than /Album/CD1, /Album/CD2, etc.
Using MP3tag, I also reassign the track numbers so that the entire collection has continuous track numbers rather than CD1Track1, CD1Track2, etc. And finally I create a playlist .m3u file.
However, PlexAmp is doing its own thing, ignoring a lot of the metadata
Any suggestions or thoughts on where to look?
You’re giving Plex mixed signals when your filename starts with “201” but the track number tag is “07.” I’m not certain this is the issue, but it’s the first thing I noticed. I suggest changing the tracknumber tags to restart at one with each new disc (Disc 1 tracks 1-x, Disc 2 tracks 1-x)
Is the Plex library configured to prefer local metadata? If so, your tags need to be very accurate.
[HowTo] Configure Plex to use embedded metadata (music)
Thanks for the quick reply.
I figured that Plex was smarter than some of my other players, but I always “name down” to my lowest common denominator. The head unit in my car, playing files off of a USB stick, is my dumbest player, so I got in the habit of starting with the number so the car would play the albums in the right order regardless of metadata.
Just ticked “prefer local metadata” and will see what happens. I’m pretty diligent about my tags, and I can easily fix anything that looks awkward in the player. Thats how I discovered this album was off. I was surprised that a bunch of songs were just missing, regardless of name or data.
Edit: Something must be corrupt with those first files. Using local metadata shows what I want, but the first 6 files are still missing.
You may need to do the Plex Dance, especially if you renamed any files. Keep in mind, the Dance is a destructive workaround, in that anything from this album that is in a playlist (or collection) will be removed from that playlist, and you’ll have to re-add it.
When the ‘Prefer local metadata’ option is enabled, the filenames don’t matter nearly as much, so if your filenames are suited to another player, you shouldn’t have to rename them.
May or may not be related but I’ve seen something similar to this happen to me as I’ve been moving my music to plex. For me it seems to be related to files being renamed AFTER an initial scan of files into plex. I actually ended up with two album enteries with a mixture of tracks in each album. Check for this just in case.
If this is the same for you then to fix you can …
I would also recommend reading the link from @beckfield above, its excellent. Also consider using musicbrainz picard as it will add tags which will help plex match stuff better.
Plex Dance fixes everything. I should have tried that first before posting. Thanks for working through it with me.
Yep, that’s the typical scenario that requires the Dance. There used to be a bunch of issues that required the Dance. They fixed most of them, but this is one of the few (maybe the only) remaining.
I’ve now got into the habit of disabling rename files in musicbrainz when I refresh/update the tags in my files. Sometimes the title changes which caused the above problem to keep happening.
When Plex splits albums up like that, you can sometimes avoid the Dance by merging the album back together, if all the tracks are present between the split albums.
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