Version 1.27.0.5897 completely erases all of the Track Artists with the Album Artist when you follow @OttoKerner 's suggestion to set the Album Artist to “Various Artists”.
There’s no way for me to import compilation albums into Plex anymore without re-entering the Track Artist information on each individual track.
PLEX STAFF, HOW DO WE IMPORT COMPILATION ALBUMS INTO PLEX??? It seems like Plex has declared a war on Compilations from Various Artists since this seems to get worse with each release.
I just tested this again. All of the track artist information for the entire compilation was erased after selecting all of the tracks in the compilation and setting “Artist” to “Various Artists”
Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database.
I have debug still enabled from a previous troubleshooting session. I scanned 60MB of Plex Media Server.#.log files over the last 6 months and no found no results searching for corrupt or malformed.
Do you have a way to convert this album for a test to mp3 and ideally flac as well?
I’d like to test if the type of file container plays any role in this.
Completed the the Plex Dance and now all of the tracks are showing up as individual “albums” again.
As I was doing before the latest update. I highlighted all of the tracks in the Album and specified “Various Artists” for the Album Artist, and the artists are missing again as described at the beginning of this thread.
