Albums with multiple artists don't get assigned to artists

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I have been playing around with my ID3 tags for a while but I can’t seem to get the result I want.

I first tried tagging “Artist” and “Album Artist” the same but it resulted in duplicate albums in Plex - which does make sense I guess.

After that I tagged “Album Artist” as Various artists instead and now everything is pooled together in a single album just like I wanted it.
The individual artists do get listed behind each track but there is no artist page for them.

For example, the Guardians of the Galaxy album features the song “Hooked On A Feeling” by Blue Swede. This gets listed correctly in the album but I can’t search for “Blue Swede” and get a proper artist page with all the songs of this artist since this is the only one I have.

Another example would be “Moonage Daydream” by David Bowie. If I search for David Bowie I get the proper artist page because I have more albums of him. However, the Guardians of the Galaxy album is not listed there because it is tagged for various artists.


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Is there a way around this?
It seems like the Guardians of the Galaxy album belongs on the artist page of David Bowie and Blue Swede deserves to get an own artist page. I’m not sure if Plex is even able to do this, if not then this is also a feature request at the same time.

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@DomiStyle said:
The individual artists do get listed behind each track but there is no artist page for them.

Unfortunately, this is normal in Plex, currently. There are only Artist pages if an Artist has an Album solely credited to itself.
Artist who only appear on sampler style albums don’t have an artist page.

Is there a way around this?

Currently not.

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@OttoKerner said:

@DomiStyle said:
The individual artists do get listed behind each track but there is no artist page for them.

Unfortunately, this is normal in Plex, currently. There are only Artist pages if an Artist has an Album solely credited to itself.
Artist who only appear on sampler style albums don’t have an artist page.

Is there a way around this?

Currently not.

Thanks for the response. In that case this is a feature request then. :wink: