Hey all. Sorry if this is duplicated somewhere, but I wasn’t able to find anything that answers my question.
So, the situation is this. I have a split album with Artist A and Artist B where the artist name should be “Artist A and Artist B”. I also have albums just for Artist A and Artist B. What I get is an artist entry for “Artist A and Artist B” that contains both the split album but also all of Artist B albums.
Tags for the files are what I would want them to be, i.e. the AlbumArtist tag is correct. It looks like that the split album gets matched in a way that makes it so that the albums are associated with Artist A, but for some reason the longer artist name “Artist A and Artist B” is chosen as the artist name for all those albums.
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Plex cannot handle multiple artists, as easy as that. It only picks the first one listed in MB. I think there’s a request for that somewhere or at least it was discussed in the ID3-Tags thread.
Thanks for the quick reply. Yeah, I get that Plex doesn’t handle multiple artists for album, but it’s choosing the wrong name for a bunch of albums based on one split album.
Thanks for the help. That split album is already in its own “Alkaline Trio _ Hot Water Music” folder and Album Artist is set (see screenshots in previous post).
If you look at how Plex is matching, it looks like its finding a match where Alkaline Trio is the artist. Which sort of explains why it is grouped together with the other ones, but I am confused on why it chooses the split name for the artist group. Screenshot:
Thanks again. Yeah, I think there is something else going on then just not supporting multiple artists.
Album 1 has Artist A -> Should create an entry for Artist A with Album 1 in it.
Album 2 has “Artist A and Artist B” (as Album Artist) -> Should create an entry for “Artist A and Artist B” with an Album 2 in it
But, what is happening is that Plex is creating only an entry for “Artist A and Artist B” and putting Album 1 and Album 2 in it.
To me this is a bug, and not a limitation of handling multiple artists. Or maybe not a bug, but something I am missing about tagging and how Plex handles things.