I've had many people in the past use The A, B, C outer folder.

As far as Country goes, there is a more or less standard Country UDTI which you could use. If you do not want to access this off the UD Text or All Tags edit panels you can create a custom field called Country. You could then access the field off a custom edit panel of your own design.

Plex documents the following structure (from their documentation):

Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/TrackNumber - TrackName.ext

or

Music/ArtistName/AlbumName/DiscNumberTrackNumber - TrackName.ext

If you're already using the A, B, C, ... folders and they work with Plex, great. I guess, it means that contrary to their documentation Plex doesn't care about the letter folders.

If you have what you want already working (although you're using Comments) let me know how you'd like to access the Country field. The best method is using a custom field as that can account for all supported audio formats. You would create the custom field in Settings - General - Custom Fields. When you add a new item there is a preset for Country. You could then edit the custom field on the All Tags or UD Text edit panels or create a UI friendly custom edit panel which displays Country. The Custom Panel editor has all the built in panels available as templates. You can import one of the templates and modify it to display Country. For example you could have a modified Info, More Info, or other edit panel showing Country.

If you need help with any of the above, let me know.

Thank you so much. I got it to work. Out of curiosity, why was Country not one of the default fields? Was easy to make it a Custom, but wondering why that was needed.

Yeah, Plex works fine using my scheme, but I'm under no allusion it's the best. I still have issues (not Plex-related) with multiple discs and how this files/folders are best organized. My approach sometimes requires manual renaming of folders with the same name, like "Artwork" for multiple discs within a collection because I flatten it. Here's an example of a box set. It uses 'Disc'_'Track' - 'Title'

I'd love a more elegant solution, so if folks have one I'm all ears.

Also, my renamer users the Year4 option which works great. However, I want to organize by original release. I use 'Original Release Time', but if that includes month and/or day then it throws off the strategy. Is there a similar approach for the original release time to one include the year? Thanks again for the support and great software.

Quote from 2MR2 on June 9, 2025, 16:44

Pretty much any field which isn't an ID3 field is not built in. There are hundreds of fields around which people use with no consensus.

I see. I had assumed that was an ID3 field. Makes sense to bake anything in other than ID3. Love that you have other ways of accommodating. Thanks.