Hi there: I switch between using Plexamp on my phone, Plexamp via Carplay and Desktop Plexamp with all my music stored in a well-organized folder on a QNAP NAS. My question is how to deal with compilations (e.g. Best of, Soundtracks) Historically these have been stored in one folder with Album Artist set to be Various Artists and track artists set to be the respective artists. However, I have discovered that Plexamp only makes use of the Album Artist field. This makes these tracks essentially undiscoverable via Plexamp. Do I have that correct? I love plexamp, so I am prepared to reorganize my folders to meet Plexamp’s requirements. This is what I am thinking of: For any track that is in my Various Artists folder, or my soundtrack folder, replace the album artist with the track artist, but without moving the files out of its current folder. I think it’s important to keep that.
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How do I indicate to Plex that these tracks are part of a compilation album? I see that Plexamp iOS does actually allow to find “compilations”. How is it finding those as compilations?
This is in no way exclusive behavior of Plexamp.
All Plex clients behave that way.
Plexamp has a slight advantage over the other apps: it does show you tracks on compilation albums if you browse by artist.
But of course: in the artist list are only artists which have at least one album credited to them in your library.
So all artists which only appear on a track on compilations are indeed kinda invisible.
This is a very bad idea, which will likely mess up your library in a major way.
Particularly if you have activated “prefer local metatags”.
all tracks of one particular album must be tagged with the same Album Artist
all albums which are stored inside of a certain ArtistName folder (as shown here) must be tagged with the same Album Artist
only use one name in an AlbumArtist tag. Plex has no support for collaboration albums. Trying to force that will end in frustration and misbehavior.
