I rip the CD, place it into its own labelled folder inside the PMS music library folder and update the library. I go to the library, view albums, sort by date added and I see 12 albums with a single track each. I’ve ripped similar CDs without a problem but this set is pretty obscure; Plex found the song titles but the full CD set didn’t register.
The key is to set the ‘AlbumArtist’ meta tag on all tracks to a common value
e.g. ‘Various Artists’ or ‘DJ MixMaster’ etc
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
Prior to posting this I changed Artist to Various Artists on a couple of tracks and made sure the compilation name was the same but that didn’t change anything. The solution above is a bit complex but I’ll dig in when I have an hour or five to kill.
Unfortunately, Plex’s ‘Refresh All Metadata’ command has not worked for a very long time. You’ll need to do the ‘Plex Dance’ (the problem has been around so long, the workaround has acquired a name) to get Plex to see the changes.
Here are the Plex Dance steps, copied from the above link, and updated because the ‘Update’ command has been renamed to ‘Scan Library Files.’
[optional: disable the SubZero plugin if installed]
- move all files for the show out of ‘sight’ of plex
-
'Scan Library Files' -
empty trash -
clean bundles -
double check naming schema and move files back -
'Scan Library Files'
[optional: re-enable the SubZero plugin if installed]
in this order
