I split a release into a different release group in musicbrainz and it has been approved for several days, but plex is still grouping it all into one album despite that and my local metadata saying otherwise (and prefer local is on anyways).
Depending on why the split was made, make sure that the two releases either
- are stored in different folders (don’t create subfolders inside the same album folder for different releases of the same album)
- have differing Album Artist tags
- have differing Album Title tags (it helps to include the specifics of the release – e.g. “ReMix 2023”, or “Deluxe Edition”)
P.S.: if you use “Fix Match” on both versions of the album and match it to the same edition, then the two version will be merged again. So don’t do that.
Do also remove embedded MusicBrainz meta tags from the files which contain the unique Musicbrainz AlbumID. Since you have “prefer local meta tags” enabled, these could merge the album again, if they contain identical IDs in the files of both album versions.
MusicBrainz Picard is adding these tags per default, btw.
They are stored in different folders and have different album title tags. They have the same album artist. I try fixing the match to the two separate ones, but it keeps recombining. The MusicBrainz IDs have separate values between the two. It just seems like Plex still has cached metadata or something for it. I’ve tried emptying trash and cleaning bundles and stuff.
we did have some laggy replication for a few days recently, possibly that’s contributing
so how can I fix this? this is still happening.
It finally split. Guess it just took forever to update on the backend or something.
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