All My Elton John and Phil Collins albums are showing up under the artist 'Disney.'

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From what I have seen, the problem you describe can appear when some other artist in the library has a metadata problem. In other words, while you are seeing Disney and Elton John get scrambled, there might be a problem in Pink Floyd that is causing it. I suspect that problems in Various Artists may be more likely to trigger this issue.

The only way I have been able to solve this problem is to check the entire library to make sure the filenames and tags are kosher. Plex for music is extremely picky.

Follow all the naming and organizing rules. These are among the most important.

  • Sort everything into albums per the official folder structure guidelines
  • Every track in every album needs to have the Album Artist tag filled out with the exact same SINGLE artist name.
  • No loose singles, no “my favorite 80s hits” folder where all the tracks have random Album Artist tags. Plex hates this, and it will take it out on you.
  • Compilations and other various artists albums MUST use the special Album Artist name “Various Artists.” (If you want to make your own compilation of random favorites, do it this way. Plex will obviously fail to look up album metadata online, but you can set it manually.)

If you are fighting with a broken library I recommend simply deleting the library and re-adding it whenever you make a major organization update. This will be much faster than doing the Plex Dance for single artists, especially since the root causes of some library problems may not be in the artist you suspect. Just turn off all the advanced metadata lookups and audio analysis – once the basics are correct and you are done re-doing the library, you can turn that stuff back on, and start making playlists.

If you do everything right in the filenames, folder structure, and tags, then you won’t HAVE to edit much stuff manually. Organize your library so the automatic lookups work – that is the goal.

This may be antithetical to the way you would like to organize your music. But if you are going to use Plex, it does have to be this way. This is just how it is. :person_shrugging: