WAV files indexing escpecialy compilation cds

[igorsela]

Hi guys,
I was wondering if there is any solution to index properly wav files.
I saw somewhere instructions for an album but my collection is 95% compilations.
All the compilations are by Various Artists so the album artist is VA but each song’s artists is different.
Any suggestions ?
Igor

[OttoKerner]

Do you mean:

1. every track is a separate wav file or do you mean
2. each CD is one continuous wav file ?

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2. will never work in Plex

For 1) you must either follow this guide to the letter:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/

Or this one:

Organizing Music - Soundtracks and Various Artists (Hit collections)

I am going to do a bit of copy/paste of posts I did in the Plex Pass only forums: ===== 1.“Various Artists” is the usual choice for ‘Sampler’ style albums. There may be exceptions for ‘collaboration’ albums which are credited to all participating artists on the album cover. 2. use the title of the single as it appears on the cover. You can augment that information with (CDM) or (single) or (Maxi) or (EP) as it fits. If it is a genuine release, Gracenote should have no problem identifying it. …

Then you can add the cover art and lyrics like this:

Music Album artwork

Little tip: If you have lots of bootlegs etc. you want to bring your embedded metatags into order first. Then you need to have the Local Media Assets agent in top position. I wouldn’t trust last.fm to fetch correct info about bootlegs and special editions of albums, like those recent expanded re-releases of Zappa albums. Put as much info into the meta tags as possible. Put a cover art inside the album folder and you should be good. Makes sure to set at least ‘AlbumArtist’ and ‘AlbumTitle’ to…

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However, in my personal opinion, you are better off if you convert these tracks to Flac format. This will not only save about 35% of space, but also add the ability to insert meta tags into the files. All that while retaining the full quality of the files.

[igorsela]

all my albums are in folders like this :
VA - Top Pop 93 Vol. 1 <-- Folder
01 - 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Never Alone.wav <— File
02 - 2 Unlimited - No Limit (Rap Radio Version).wav <— File
…
they are all “VA - Compilation Name”, sometimes there are 2 CDs - I would love to find out how to make Plex recognize the 2CD layout …

[OttoKerner]

Please click on my links above. It is all explained in there and I have already managed to get multi-cd albums into plex using this method.

[igorsela]

So for WAV files i need the following structure ? Did I get you right ?

Music /
   Various Artists /
      Various Artists - Top Pop 93 Vol. 1 /
         01 - 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Never Alone.wav
         02 - 2 Unlimited - No Limit (Rap Radio Version).wav

I need the master “Various Artists” folder and again “Various Artists - Compilation Name” folder inside the master one ?

[OttoKerner]

For single-disc compilations:

Music /
   Various Artists /
      Various Artists - Top Pop 93 Vol. 1 /
         01. 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Never Alone.wav
         02. 2 Unlimited - No Limit (Rap Radio Version).wav

for multi-disc compilations:

Music /
   Various Artists /
      Various Artists - Top Pop 93 Vol. 1 /
         Disc 1 /
            01. 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor - Never Alone.wav
            02. 2 Unlimited - No Limit (Rap Radio Version).wav
            ...
         Disc 2 /
            01. track artist - track title.wav
            02. track artist - track title.wav
            ...

After changing those file or folder names, you need to perform the Plex Dance
(step 4 of the dance can be omitted with music)

But, a mentioned above, you are better off converting those files to FLAC format.

[igorsela]

Thank you !

[igorsela]

Well, I just tried and it didn’t work

Please help

[OttoKerner]

Is the title of the album really just ‘Volume 1’?

Settings - Server - Agents - Albums - last.fm
Make sure that the line ‘Local Media Assets’ is in the topmost position.

Do also this:
edit your music library,
go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and
check ‘Use embedded tags’

After making these two changes, repeat the Plex Dance.

[igorsela]

Still i do not get album names and double cds appearing as 2 separate ones …

[OttoKerner]

Which folder did you add to the library?
It should be C:\Music, nothing else.
(properties of the library, ‘Add Folders’ tab)

[igorsela]

Of course … C:\Music

I’m giving up on WAVs …
I’ll convert everything to Flac and that’s it
Any chance Plex will ever support WAV oob or maybe there is a way to inject metadata into WAV files as well ?

[OttoKerner]

@igorsela

maybe there is a way to inject metadata into WAV files as well ?

There is, but Plex doesn’t support this type of metadata.
Just like 97% of all other software which accepts wav files as input.

[igorsela]

Too bad.
Well thanks anyway.
Now with flac everything is working except the 2cd discs. I built the folder with “Disc 1” and “Disc 2” subfolders and the Metadata on the flacs is “AlbumName - Disc 1” on the first and “AlbumName - Disc 2” on the second but nonetheless Plex recognizes 2 albums with the same artwork.

[OttoKerner]

@igorsela

Metadata on the flacs is “AlbumName - Disc 1” on the first and “AlbumName - Disc 2” on the second

This is the mistake. The ‘album title’ meta tag must be identical for all tracks in an album. Otherwise you’ll get 2 albums in Plex.
There is a separate meta tag for the disc number.

Edit the tags and then repeat the Plex Dance.