ALBUMARTIST instead of ARTIST playing music with CHROMECAST

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I use PMS on a windows PC .Playing a MUSIC track in Plex on a PC or in the Plex app on a tablet or smartphone shows
TITLE ALBUM and ARTIST (TPE1)
Very nice, and exaclty as it should be.

However, when I cast a track with CHROMECAST my smart TV shows
TITLE ALBUM and ALBUMARTIST (TPE2) instead of ARTIST (TPE1)
Playing a song from a normal album gives at least some usefull info out of TPE2, the actual albumartist,
But it becomes really annoying when the track is a track from a various artists album. In that case the displayed TPE2 is VARIOUS ARTISTSā€¦grrrrr!

For you smart guys who developed this fine program it must be peanuts to change thisā€¦PLEASE give it a try!! It would be so wonderfull for all those who use Plex for their MUSIC in combination with CHROMECAST.

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Strongly related to your request, there is a feature request for more thorough (and correct) support for embedded tags. I think your issue would be solved if that were achieved. If you agree, please add your vote to that thread.

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Thank you for your reaction. I certainly support your wishes concerning tag support, and I gave it my vote.
But I am not so sure that it has the solution for my problem, since the plex developpers made an ERROR by swopping TPE1 and TPE2 displaying in a plex app versus chomecast appā€¦
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Iā€™d like to confirm this is still happening ChromeCast Ultra here, started listening to some new music,
Like to glance up and see who it is thatā€™s playing and as far as I know ā€œVarious Artistsā€ has written a lot of songs that I likeā€¦

Hope that amused you, but can this get changed please.

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This is not so much a feature request, as much as a bug.

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This issue is a major problem for me and it looks like it has been festering for years. My setup is a little different from the OPā€™s, but the issue is the same.

I run the Plex Media server on a Synology NAS ( Version 1.16.5.1554). I have it set to use embedded metadata when present and metadata is present on all my library files. In particular, compilations have Album Artist set to either ā€œVarious Artistsā€ or some other meaningful value.

When I play the tracks on a Plex client (I have tested web, android and an Android TV) then album information is shown correctly with the Album Artist that is set in the ID3v2.3 (or in rare cases ID3v2.4) tag. Playing individual tracks, however, the artist that is set in the Artis field of the metadata is displayed. This to my mind is the correct behaviour.

When I cast the track from the Plex client (web or Android) to a chromecast, the artist is displayed on screen I am casting to as Various Artists or whatever else is set in the Album Artist field. The Plex client continues to display the artist correctly.

Similarly, if I enable the DLNA server on the PMS, and then request tracks from the Plex DLNA server, once again the Artist is incorrectly displayed as ā€œVarious Artistsā€.

If I use the Synology Media Server as the DLNA server, serving from the same media files, the artist is displayed correctly so the problem seems to be with PMS rather than a general issue with the DLNA protocols.

I tried stripping the Album Artist field altogether from the tracks, leaving it blank for compilations to see if this would force Plex to use the information in the Artist field. However Plex is too smart for me. When the Album Artist field is blank, it enters it in the library as having Album Artist ā€œVarious Artistsā€ (without actually writing to the tag) and the problem persists. If I play those tracks then they display as having artist ā€œvarious artistsā€.

Additionally, if I go to listings by artist, PMS seems only to read the Album Artist tags and not the Artist tags so tracks in compilations do not show up.

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Auto-filling an album with no Album Artist and tracks from multiple Artist as ā€œVarious Artistsā€ is correct and expected behaviour, but again this comes from some unfortunate database design choice that were made in the past.

That said, sending the AA to Chromecast instead of A is clearly a bug, and probably should be reported as such, not a feature request.

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This is really a bug. It is very annoying. It works fine on my Sony TV app, where the ā€˜ARTISTā€™ is displayed. But with Chromecast the ā€˜ALBUM ARTISTā€™ is shown which is not correct.

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Lol, I just added a bunch of Compilation albums and started listening to them on the Chromecast. I probably spent an hour trying to ā€œfixā€ the albums when I realised that it works fine on my Android device.

So yes. The Chromecast is still buggy.