I got a “mixtape” as a Kickstarter reward, and made the tracks each have the same album title and album artist, but the files are in different formats: some are in mp3 and some are in wav. Plex is considering these to be different albums.
I know I could convert the wavs to mp3, but is there a way I can force Plex to consider this to be the same album?
Quick 'n Dirty:
Merge the two albums
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201018248-Merge-or-Split-Items
proper way:
WAV doesn’t support embedded meta tags
so you must use filenames and folder structure to indicate to Plex which album they belong in
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265296-Adding-Music-Media-From-Folders
or
convert the WAVs to FLAC and add the metadata
That worked. Thank you!
(as I’m lazy I just merged them; I think being in a Compilation directory was throwing off the file structure approach)
compilations are just albums where the Album Artist is (usually)named ‘Various Artists’
No real difference to real albums.
Here are some tips regarding music
multi-disc albums
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1050849/#Comment_1050849
handling singles and EP’s
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1093611/#Comment_1093611
possible ‘side car’ files for music
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1319703/#Comment_1319703
soundtracks and ‘various artists’
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1472799/#Comment_1472799
