Album artist incorrectly set as AC/DC for thousands of tracks

[OttoKerner]

Plex Music scanner metadata bug

I’m afraid this won’t work with Plex. (at least not satisfactorily) Plex is very much album-centered. So even if you have a mixed bunch of tracks, they still need to belong to an album. (And no: a “mega-album” with several thousand tracks which holds all “Various Artists”-tracks won’t do.) Plex always want this folder hierarchy: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/ That applies just the same to Various Artists albums (i.e. “samplers”) . If you files ar…

How do you tag compilations/soundtracks in your music library?

That will very likely create chaos in Plex. Here is one of my sampler albums: “Album Artist” has been tagged to Various Artists while the “[Track] Artist” has been tagged with the actual performer of the track. (although in this particular case, there might be good arguments to assign it to Depeche Mode and not to Various Artists – but that is not the topic of this thread) [grafik] As you can see, this album is stored inside an “artist folder” which hosts all albums with “Various Artists”…

Plex Displays Random Wrong Combined Artist Names

Folder organization. Music / AlbumArtist / AlbumTitle / Tracks All albums, with all their tracks inside a certain “Album Artist” folder must be tagged with the same album artist name. If there is even only one track with a wrong or missing album artist tag inside there, it can set off all other albums. Find that deviating track(s). I’m assuming that you have both albums with “SonReal” and “SonReal & Rich Kidd” tagged as AlbumArtist inside the same albumartist folder.

Plex automatically renames some artists when I don't want it to

Enable “Prefer local metatags” in the properties of your music library. Warning: doing so will wreak havoc in your library if your folder structure and the embedded meta tags are not in immaculate shape. Most important: there is a difference between the “Album Artist” and the “[Track] Artist”. Plex uses pretty much only the Album Artist. The folder structure must follow the Album Artist. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/ Example for a sampler album…