Plex lists music album tracks in the wrong order
I recently ripped a CD (Muriel Anderson's "Sailing Dreams") and Plex could not match it so it listed it as Various Artists "Unknown Album". The tracks were named as they usually are after a rip (e.g. 01 Track 1 name) but Plex listed them out of order. I loaded the album in MP3Tag and it couldn't find any metadata for it either, so I entered the metadata myself using MP3Tag and verified that the title, album, album artist, and track number were correct for every track. I changed my music library to "Prefer local metadata" and edited the album in Plex to set the Album name and artist. While in the Plex editor I noted that the list of filenames is in the order that the tracks are showing in Plex. I have tried refreshing metadata over and over but the tracks continue to show in the wrong order (another oddity is that the first track is listed as track 00).
Any idea what is wrong and how I can fix this?
Posted Jun 20, 2026, 10:59 PM UTC