Corrupt database renaming artist or other?

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.25.5.5492
Player Version#: 1.40.1.2823-6f60f3a7

I’m trying to figure out 1) how this got into this state and 2) the best course of action to rectify and prevent it from happening again.

I have multiple compilation albums and some soundtrack albums. The files/folders/etc are all named correctly and organized as one would expect. However, within Plex, each of these albums have all been given the same artist name, and as such are all being mis-organized.

If I un/rematch, or fix match, it will see the album appropriately, but not actually reflect any change.

My server is a win10 VM under ESXi. Oddly, and recently, windows could complain about low disk space when logging in, though this is categorically not the case. I have a dedicated disk for the Plex DB, of which is an SSD that’s got 80GB of space free. Plex itself runs on a separate disk. Both are virtual disks, though the DB is on a dedicated disk only for this VM.

I’m not opposed to wiping the DB, but I’d prefer to do it only for music. That being said, how much cleanup is there really to the DB when removing a library? I’d prefer not to individually change each entry.

Happy to provide whatever may be relevant here.

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Don’t organize them as one would expect.
Organize them as Plex expects them.

See All of my "Various Artists" albums changed Artist name - #6 by OttoKerner

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Relative to this site, yes, as one would expect.

Every album artist entry in every file in every folder is tagged various artists, with a contributing artist being the actual artist. Folder structure is as the link.

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Just to close this out, I deleted my library and re-added and it seems to have sorted itself.

So whether it was a database corruption or what I can’t say.

Thanks for the help

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