If you have album with different artists you have to create an album called various aritsts artists are placed as one album which is right but artists don’t get sorted individual. on the hand if you don’t place artists as one album and separate then you get a lot of albums .
ITunes solves the problem but when you pay for plex pass you expect this issue to get resolved
Have done it but i realized plex cant give you information about an artist that is under various artists . Example i have an album with alot of artists now 75 in the album artist leave it blank for all artists i refresh music section i got plex premium album when i go ti my album and ckick on an artist it wont give me the ablity to get information for that artist and nethier when i search for that artist it wont tell me that he belongs to that album. I might sound confusing
All my Albums are with different artists I think all just do it that way edit them and put them under various artists its more organized that way and hopefully some stage plex brings out an update like iTunes that works better in reading the tags and organizing albums . thank for the help.
@trumpy81 said:
You are dealing with Various Artist albums, so no, there is no information regarding the Artist, there’s nowhere to view that information for a Various Artist album in any case.
That’s not true. In the ID3 spec, there is ‘Band/Orchestra/Accompaniment’ (TPE2) and ‘Lead artist(s)/Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)/Performing group’ (TPE1). (There are also TPE3 and TPE4, but they don’t apply here).
The fact is, the ID3 specification does not define a tag for ‘Album Artist.’ The TPE2 tag has been misappropriated for use as an ‘Album Artist’ tag. Unfortunately, most applications for editing and/or reading/playing media have conformed to this misappropriation, so the TPE2 tag has become a de facto ‘Album Artist’ tag.
iTunes resolved this by creating their own, proprietary ‘Album Artist’ tag. The ID3 spec allows for user-defined tags, and this may be how they did it.
Under those conditions, the way most people manage Various Artist albums is to set the Album Artist tag on every track to ‘Various Artists,’ and the ‘Artist’ (TPE1) tag to the specific artist for each track. In Plex, this appears like this:
Note that the individual track artist does appear next to the track title.
No Artist Details page will be created for individual artists on a Various Artists album. If you have albums for an artist who also appears on a Various Artists album, the Various Artist tracks will not appear on the Artist Details page (there is a feature request to change that). However, with the recent improvements in Plex’s Search feature, this is at least now searchable:
Wow, that’s a lot of work to argue against things I didn’t say, or arguing against things I said where we actually agree.
I never said a word about the definitions of all those terms. I have no idea why you brought them up.
"Apple clearly do not agree with the original definition as set out under TPE2 by the ID3v2 specification…
Exactly. They recognized, as I pointed out, that there is no tag defined in the ID3 specification that was originally intended to be filled with the phrase ‘Various Artists,’ or to define the artist for the entire album at all. So (maybe) they created a custom frame to deal with it. I can’t imagine how you don’t see that as exactly what I said.
The TPE2 tag was intended to identify the “Band/Orchestra/Accompaniment” for the particular track it is in. It was not intended to contain information pertaining to the entire album. Each track in an album might have unique names in this frame.
“This is because, like it or not, the industry has mostly accepted ‘Album Artist’ to mean just that, as defined above.”
Which is exactly what I meant when I said “Unfortunately, most applications for editing and/or reading/playing media have conformed to this misappropriation, so the TPE2 tag has become a de facto ‘Album Artist’ tag.”
Did you see the statement from you that I quoted? That’s the statement that I said was not true. There is information on the individual track artist in the TPE1 tag, and Plex does show that info.
As for the TPE2 frame, the ID3 spec does not call that frame “Album Artist,” as I said, because that is not the original intended purpose of the TPE2 frame. The rest of my post was simply a discussion of how that frame came to be misappropriated and used as the de facto ‘Album Artist’ frame.
@trumpy81 said:
Like I said, if you switch to ‘Artist’ view, there is nowhere to display that information, all you see is an artist named ‘Various Artists’ and if you click on that it expands to the albums view.
Well, there’s the disconnect. You never said “if you switch to ‘Artist’ view…”
As for TPE2, this is how Plex uses it:
If TPE2 is populated, Plex uses that value for the album artist.
If TPE2 is not populated, Plex looks at TPE1 and, if all are the same, that becomes the album artist. If they are not identical, Plex puts the album under ‘Various Artists.’
