Whats the deal with the music feature.

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Hey all,

I’m sure this has been asked before, but its just frustrating me so much recently.
I have several Various artists multi disc albums. I ripped them myself and hand tagged every damn track using mp3tag.
I used the discnumber tag too in both supported standards. e.g. just setting the disk number and also trying the disk number / total discs.

I read up on the system that plex suppose-ably uses (id3 tagging) and what the underlying disc number tag is actually called (TPOS) read more here Tag Field Mappings – Mp3tag Documentation

I even tried naming the files in different ways and folder structures even though the plex documentation state this isnt used. found here https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/205748387-How-do-I-use-multi-disc-support-for-my-music-libraries-

But after all of this, plex still makes a complete mess of it and I have to resort to once again organising all the content.

e.g.

As you can, see plex seems to think disc 1 and 3 are just disc 1.

996×612 65 KB

Above is track 1 of cd1 tag info.

1012×605 64.3 KB

Above is track 1 of cd2 tag info.

1016×612 67.4 KB

Above is track 1 of cd3 tag info.

What am I doing wrong, because this is just ridiculous how I cant seem to do something that I expect to very simple

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Figured it out, I didnt have the “use embedded tag” feature when adding the library

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It is important to always fill in the ‘Album Artist’ with an identical value for all tracks of an album.
For a sampler album this would be ‘Various Artists’.

Same goes for the album title.
It must be identical for all tracks of an album and must not contain a disc number (or the disc title if a multi-disc release has the particular discs named).

some more music-related stuff: