Better support for albums and tracks with multiple artists

[certuna]

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Since mp3s use “/” as artist separators Have Plex also use it. Since there are instances where albums have multiple artists such as Bob Dylan and The Band collaborating, or one or more songs have either guest singers, duets, or collaborations.Have the “/” work in both.

Yes this has been a long-standing suggestion, already mentioned in this feature request:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/id3-tag-support-for-robust-music-library-organization

Basically the Artist field (also Genre, btw) should be a multivariant attribute in the internal Plex database, currently it isn’t.

Also have detailed data about each track be able to read from mp3/flac when initially scanned. Add a way to scan just one artist/albums/track so that any/all data for that artist/albums/track separated or recently corrected data can be read and credited correctly.

This is a long standing issue, and the reason for the much-maligned “Plex Dance”: if metadata changes, Plex will only process the change if the file is first deleted from the library, all caches purged, and re-added.

Also, some Albums have different graphics per LP/CD/Cassette, can plex please read if CD art differs per CD so that tracks display the art for theie specific CD while maintaining a single or alternating album cover. Just read/compare if the album has multiple CDs then give an option for different or same CD art. If the same all CDs per that album use the album art, otherwise each CD can have art specified.

Yes here we encounter the same problem as in many other cases: some fields like Genre and Album Art are only used in the internal Plex database on the Album level, not on the Track level.

Let’s not use “,” to separate artist. I use “,” to separate “The” and “A” from the band name, as follows…

Separate database fields like Sort Title, Sort Album, Sort Artist are used for this, again also discussed in the other topic