I’ve been using Plex with DLNA on Windows for years, with a couple Yamaha receivers as clients. It has worked great.
I’ve now installed on Linux using docker-compose. I copied the music files over to the Linux machine as well. DLNA is mostly working. However, I have some music missing, and it’s failing to show up on both clients.
The DLNA clients find the artists with the problem, but when I expand the artist view, it shows no albums or files. The same albums / tracks work fine playing back via the Plex interface, so it’s not the case that they’re missing from the Library.
Both clients can still see this music on the old Plex server.
So, it’s not an issue with access to the music files, and not an issue with the clients. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!
I’ve discovered that the tracks show up under the “Album” structure in the DLNA client. So Plex and DLNA definitely see them. However, they do not show up under the “Artist” top-level categorization. So, for example:
Artist…Queen…Empty
Album…Queen - Greatest Hits… all tracks there!
When I play the tracks, I can see DLNA shows the artist as Queen. When I open up Plex I can see the tracks in question have “Album Artist” as “Queen”.
There are at least a handful of other artists / albums with this problem.
Does anyone know what’s going on and how to fix this?
I’m running into the same problem. All tracks not categorized as ‘Albums’ do not show up in DLNA. This means that I cannot access albums categorized as ‘Compilations’, ‘Soundtracks’, ‘Live Albums’ etc.
Due to other issues with the Plex client on Android I am forced to use DLNA but this is becoming pretty annoying. This used to work, it looks like a bug introduced in more recent versions of Plex.
I am currently running Plex version 1.24.2.4973 release 2b1b51db9 on RHEL 8.4
I am hoping these posts are read by Plex Support and they will fix this soon.
Ditto to the above comments. I’m running the latest Plex Media Server on Windows (1.24.2.4973-2b1b51db9). I attempted to remove the DLNA db files @ %AppData%\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-in Support\Databases and restart the DLNA server. The DLNA db files were rebuilt, but the issue persists.
It seems to be only happening to new music that has been added in the last 30-day or so.
Same issue here. Removed library, rebuilt, still randomly missing songs in DLNA. I’m using folder view as a workaround, which isn’t visually appealing.
Glad to see others have this issue, and hope it will get some attention. I’ve had the same library of music in Plex for Windows for years, and nothing like this ever occurred. I moved to Linux, and now it is failing for a small subset of albums, as I mentioned. I can’t find any reason why certain albums are affected, and it’s equally puzzling that they work fine in Plex web.
Any chance Plex developers can chime in? I’m hoping DLNA is important enough for a dev to take a look, as it’s my primary use case for Plex.
Chiming in, I also have this issue and since my multiroom setup is hooked into HEOS (which has no bespoke Plex connectivity), this means about 15% of my music library is inaccessible to me in my preferred use-case. Plex’s internal sorting is really cool, I appreciate Live Albums and Soundtracks and such not cluttering up the Studio Albums space, but not at the expense of being able to select those albums over DLNA.
It seems like this is a prevalent bug. Any chance any developers are seeing this? Do they show up on these forums to address issues? Is the bug already known or understood? I’d be happy to provide a log, but I don’t know how and what log to provide…
New server update, but not fixed. Is there a way to re-tag all collections as Albums as a temporary fix? I personally consider them all Albums in the first place instead of the more granular approach that’s causing this issue.
Same issue. All albums with specific tags as “Compilation” or “Single LP” or “Live Album” are not visible thru DLNA interface. I have tried several different clients & tools and always the same result. What is annoying is that this kind of tag is automaticaly given by Plex (How ?) while there is any tag into the flac file of the songs
Have the same issue - assumed it was my dlna client that weren’t compatible, however above indicates it’s a Plex issue.
“Ordinary” album works fine, but compilations, soundtracks etc. does not show up on the client.
Currently running version 1.24.5.5173 under MacOS.
Same thing happening on my server but I cannot correlate it with any particular visible tags. Some albums which are visible in “by folder” view are invisible in both “by author” and “by album”.
An example that I am looking at right now in the screenshot.
EDIT: Just re-read the above posts and now I realize that people didn’t really mean “tags” when they said tags. The album in the screenshot above is indeed a compilation album and is correctly categorized as such by Plex. But it does seem like a DLNA implementation bug that it doesn’t appear under the artist in “By Artist” view and doesn’t appear at all under “By Album” view.
