Problem with MP3 tags and Plex identifing them

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#:4.76.1

I can’t figure it out. I have ~80 live concert recordings, all MP3s, All are in one directory and I’m trying to add them to a library “Concerts”. Each file name is “Performer - Month Year” MP3 tags are verified as being populated: title & album (the same), artist and album artist (the same), track number (all are track 1), no disc number.

In one post I saw someone note that “‘Album Artist’ and ‘Album Title” must have identical content in all files in this folder…

I don’t understand why Plex won’t just load the folder witht the 80 independent MP3s in it, and I have no idea how to get it to recognize these concert recordings. It makes little sense to put each one into it’s own seperate folder, but is this what I have to do?

Any suggestions most welcome!

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So where does PLEX come up with the “Album” tag? The file shown under the folders display reflects an Album that isn’t anywhere within the tags of the specific .MP3 file?

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So lacking any other suggested approaches, I re-structured the 80 concert mp3s into ~70 directories named for the artist, and moved the concert MP3s into those sub-directories. It’s better, but the “Album” tag is still screwed-up when there are multiple concerts under one artist. Regardless of what the MP3 actually has as it’s internal “album:” tag, all are taged in PLEX with “album” as the last one in the folder. Argh!