Hello everyone,
Last week I started using Plex as a replacement of Serviio. I was a very happy user untill I found something strange in the DLNA functionality. It seems that plex is not sending out the proper album information through DLNA, the album-artist of an album is shown as artist in every track on that album. In my case I have a lot of compilation albums where the album-artist is “various artists”. Serviio seems to handle that information well. Also the webinterface of Plex seems to work as expected, but the dlna output unfortunately not.
Serviio-DLNA:
Plex-DLNA:
Plex-Webinterface:
My Question: can i change this behaviour or is this a bug?
+1 for this, it’s quite an annoying issue. I stream from my iPad using the mconnect app and compilation albums do indeed show various artists instead of the actual artists for the specific track(s).
+1 for this. Plex’s incorrect (or at least unusual) treatment of album artist is a big pain point for me.
If I play a track in a compilation where Album Artist is set to “various Artists” in a browser or on a Plex client, the Artist is displayed correctly and the Album is displayed correctly as being from “Various Artists”.
However if I cast the track to Chromecast the artist for the track is incorrectly displayed as “Various Artists”.
Also, if I have an artist that is represented in Various Artist albums, they do not appear in by-artist listings.
It seems as if this issue with Plex has been festering for at least 4 years now. I am surprised it has not been fixed. For track information to be displayed in one way when played directly on a Plex client and in a different way when served over the network to a Chromecast or DLNA client is obviously a bug, and a pretty bad one.
