
Guardians Of The Galaxy - Awesome Mix Vol. The common way to handle this is to use an artist with the literal name “ Various Artists” and to have those albums under that artist. This is common for soundtracks or “Best of the 80s” type albums, for instance. Sometimes, you may have compilation albums where there are tracks by multiple different artists. Joshua Tree Handling “Various Artists” or Similar Compilations MusicĠ1 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V).m4a When creating the music library, it is the /Music directory that would be specified as the content location for the library. Note: This example illustrates many of the types of content outlined previously. Note: It’s also important for multi-disc albums to have the correct disc number set in the embedded tags for the file.
Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/DiscNumberTrackNumber - TrackName.ext. So, track two on disc three would be 302 - TrackName.ext. Multi-Disc Albumsįor albums that span more than one disc, you simply prepend the disc number to the front of the track number. Using a flat file list of tracks can result in failures or a poor experience. Tip!: Even if your music content has complete and perfect embedded tags, we strongly encourage you to continue organizing tracks into albums. (Some operating systems such as Windows may hide your file extensions by default.) Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumber - TrackName.ext. Even so, it’s important to organize and name the content appropriately for the best experience.Ĭontent should have each artist in their own directory, with each album as a separate subdirectory within it. We also make use of sonic fingerprinting to assist with matching content. If your content already has (accurate) embedded metadata, then Plex will use that information to help matching in a default install. Whether or not your content has embedded metadata can make a difference in how it is scanned matched. For instance, if you used iTunes to store your music in the past, then it almost certainly has (at least some) embedded metadata. You may have heard of the “ID3 tag” inside MP3 files – that’s a type of embedded metadata. Unlike with video content, music tracks will usually already have embedded metadata for many users.
Movies, /Music, /TV Shows) that you would specify as the content location for that library type. In the above example, it is the main folder of each type of content (e.g. However, a failure to separate content such as movies and TV shows may result in unexpected or incorrect behavior. Warning!: Plex will do its best to appropriately find and match content. For instance, you might use something like this: /Media We strongly recommend separating movie and television content into separate main directories. The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from each other.