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This issue has been plaguing me for years! For me it’s frequently 1-3 tracks in one album and the rest in the other. I have the Personal Media Artists/Albums set as my agents and have the local assets at the top of the ordering. In Manage Library → Edit → Advanced I have “Prefer Local Metadata” ticked. My ID3 tags are very well kept. The items in the library are well organized by ./<artist>/<album>/<track>.
I looked at the Get Info for two tracks from different Plex albums (which should actually just be one album) and they will actually even show the same parentGuid and grandparentGuid! What is different between them is the parentKey. Maybe that’s a clue? Do we have anyone from Plex that can take a look? The files in question have identical ID3 tags for everything except track title, track number, and track length.
Track 1
<Track ratingKey="46252" key="/library/metadata/46252" parentRatingKey="39569" grandparentRatingKey="22274" guid="plex://track/5d07e929403c640290b2a866" parentGuid="plex://album/5d07c8ac403c640290c1ae6e" grandparentGuid="plex://artist/5d07bcec403c64029056efe2" parentStudio="Dovecote" type="track" title="Hey" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/22274" parentKey="/library/metadata/39569" librarySectionTitle="Music" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" grandparentTitle="Hooray for Earth" parentTitle="Racy" originalTitle="Hooray for Earth" summary="" index="1" parentIndex="1" ratingCount="7557" viewCount="2" lastViewedAt="1672345469" parentYear="2014" art="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400" grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/22274/thumb/1672055400" grandparentArt="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400" duration="156055" addedAt="1651131704" updatedAt="1670155887" musicAnalysisVersion="1">
Track 2
<Track ratingKey="22277" key="/library/metadata/22277" parentRatingKey="22275" grandparentRatingKey="22274" guid="plex://track/5d07e92a403c640290b2ad1e" parentGuid="plex://album/5d07c8ac403c640290c1ae6e" grandparentGuid="plex://artist/5d07bcec403c64029056efe2" parentStudio="Dovecote" type="track" title="Keys" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/22274" parentKey="/library/metadata/22275" librarySectionTitle="Music" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" grandparentTitle="Hooray for Earth" parentTitle="Racy" originalTitle="Hooray for Earth" summary="" index="2" parentIndex="1" ratingCount="23103" viewCount="1" lastViewedAt="1672341241" parentYear="2014" art="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400" grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/22274/thumb/1672055400" grandparentArt="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400" duration="247536" addedAt="1418689296" updatedAt="1670155886" musicAnalysisVersion="1">
For easier readability, here’s a diff of the two
--- <Track
+++ <Track
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
<Track
-ratingKey="46252"
-key="/library/metadata/46252"
-parentRatingKey="39569"
+ratingKey="22277"
+key="/library/metadata/22277"
+parentRatingKey="22275"
grandparentRatingKey="22274"
-guid="plex://track/5d07e929403c640290b2a866"
+guid="plex://track/5d07e92a403c640290b2ad1e"
parentGuid="plex://album/5d07c8ac403c640290c1ae6e"
grandparentGuid="plex://artist/5d07bcec403c64029056efe2"
parentStudio="Dovecote"
type="track"
-title="Hey"
+title="Keys"
grandparentKey="/library/metadata/22274"
-parentKey="/library/metadata/39569"
+parentKey="/library/metadata/22275"
librarySectionTitle="Music"
librarySectionID="3"
librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3"
@@ -22,16 +22,16 @@
for
Earth"
summary=""
-index="1"
+index="2"
parentIndex="1"
-ratingCount="7557"
-viewCount="2"
-lastViewedAt="1672345469"
+ratingCount="23103"
+viewCount="1"
+lastViewedAt="1672341241"
parentYear="2014"
art="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400"
grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/22274/thumb/1672055400"
grandparentArt="/library/metadata/22274/art/1672055400"
-duration="156055"
-addedAt="1651131704"
-updatedAt="1670155887"
+duration="247536"
+addedAt="1418689296"
+updatedAt="1670155886"
musicAnalysisVersion="1">
