Things to check/suggestion. Create a test library first and throw two or three trouble albums in that library. And then check/try the following things.
Is your library set to prefer local metadata or no?
How are your files named and folder structure?
When my library is set to prefer local metadata, my wav files exhibit what you are describing when I only have the Title, Track Number and Length tag. Check to see if those are the only tags you have. If that is the case then.
For me I have found a good level of success when I have prefer local metadata set I need to have the following tags:
Artist
Album Artist
Album
Track Title
Track Number
That works really well, if this is a CD that exists in the Musicbrainz database then it matches up real nice. If it does not match than I go in and add the CD to Musicbrainz, or if it is a local artist I add more tags to the file, and add the info directly into Plex through the edit screen.
I also found that folder structure is important if tags are not being read or not accurate, I have good success with the following folder structure:
Artist \ Artist - Album Title \ Track# - Track Name.wav
example: Glitch Mob \ Glitch Mob - Tron Legacy Reconfigured \ 01 - Derezzed.wav
This is not the Plex recommended folder structure but it works well for me and I have not seen any issues with Plex so far.
If you have prefer local metadata off. Then the above tags and proper folder structure will work the same way.
Are you sure it’s using the filename? Generally both look at titles, but if the title is set to blank and sort title is not blank, Plexamp will show black whereas the web app displays the sort title.
Please post a screenshot of the metadata dialog for a track.
I was curious and I did some testing on this. Here is what I found. Hope it helps you @elan
I used Musicbrainz picard tagged test files with ID3V2.4.
Unmatched track, prefer local metadata is turned on. The tag in the file is Title Web UI REad this yes or no. The screenshot below is from Picard naming screen
@elan Had to take two shots cause I couldn’t get the edit box to expand to show the full thing. Am I supposed to have a title sort in the music library cause I haven’t seen it yet for music files? First shot is top half. Second shot is bottom half
Sort title is supposed to be derived from the title. It doesn’t make sense to have a sort title and a blank title.
Plexamp chooses to display just the title; the sort title, when present, can even be weird e.g. 001 xxxx, 002 xxxx, and we just choose not to fallback to it.
That makes total sense. Not many reasons to have the sort title be different than the title. And there is even less reasons to have a different file name than the title of the song.
So take away here, which is common sense. If there are blanks in song name check the title tag, file name and sort title to see if they match.
Thanks both for your inputs. Please see screenshots below of my situation. I have tagged the files artist, album and song title (making sure to do the sort titles as well:
