EP vs Album with same title

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I previously added an EP released by Tower of Power.

They have now released a longer album with the same, exact title.

This release includes all of the tracks on the EP but adds a few others. I am not sure how to add this.

If it is listed with the same band/title (although marked as an “album”) will services such as Plex look at it as a duplicate? Any tips on how this new release should be added?

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I would add it as a new Album RG, and then add an RG-RG relationship:

EP is included in Album

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If you need to distinguish them in your tags. maybe you could add EP to the album name for the EP version? There was a Picard script floating around that would do that for you.

I don’t know anything about Plex, but with MusicBee you can select which tags you want to consider when deciding if something is a distinct album. If year is taken into account, it should see them separately anyway.

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$set(album,%album%$if($in(%releasetype%,single), \(single\),)$if($in(%releasetype%,EP), \(EP\),))

Don’t know if Plex followed KODI, but KODI uses the MBID to separate releases. I use the above script anyway to tag (EP) or (Single) onto Release title so I can spot it visually.

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