Hello, I am having an issue where whenever I add a song to a track collection that song will then be reordered in the album that it comes from. This means that any track that is in a track collection will be listed first in the album then the remaining tracks will be listed afterwards. Usually when…

I reported this a while ago too [image] Bug: Adding to a Track Collection removes disc number metadata from track Plex Media Server Server Version#: 1.41.3.9314 Player Version#: Plex Web 4.142.2 & Plexamp 4.11.4 Adding a music track to a Track Collection removes that tr…

Yep I recently noticed this as well. It broke my database entirely because I did a smart collection with “all tracks starred 3 or higher” which was several thousands. I had to revert my database to an earlier version. I was lucky that I noticed the issue in time though. I don’t think a refresh set…

Yes, add me to this list as well. The track number is showing but the ordering is wrong: [image] The disc number is removed: [image] After metadata refresh: [image] [image]

@OttoKerner can you confirm this issue? Multiple people are reporting it and it is messing up our music libraries. Thanks

Does anyone know of a jellyfin or navidrome client that has this functionality? I haven’t been able to find one that allows you to create a group and then filter your library by excluding that group. I guess another solution would be updating playlists to have all the functionality that collections …

I am having the same issue; is there any indication this is going to be addressed in future patches / releases?

Looks like it might be addressed in the latest beta notes FIXES: (Collections) Adding tracks to a collection overwrites the disc number field (PM-2605)

Track Collections Messing with Library

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jimbob100101 July 16, 2025, 1:11pm 9

I just updated to the latest beta and successfully added a few tracks to collections both manually and using advanced filters so hopefully this bug has been fixed

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