[Feature request] View all music tracks directly when in Artist view

Feature Suggestions
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The idea… When you are in your music library and you are in the vieuw ‘artists’. When you then click this artist you will get all the albums of that artist. But it would be great to have a ‘Virtual’ album like ‘All Tracks’.

This way, for example. If you know i’m looking for a specific song of which the artist i already know, you can search for it directly under the artist. Otherwise i always need to search using the searchbox. Which will result in the fact it will perform a search though my entire database.

This also gives a better overview when not all albums are complete. Imagine how many songs (example) Celine Dion has… and i have like 3 of them. Which are just 3 songs belonging to 3 different albums! Then when i click this artist, i get 3 albums!! So i need to click every album and then go back, click the second album etc etc.

1 Virtual album ‘All Tracks’ :slight_smile:

I know i can set the view to titles instead of artists… but don’t we all like cover arts? :slight_smile:

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Actually, it was almost exactly like this before. And when you had a more productive artist with more than 5 albums, the Plex Web client ran into massive performance issues. It was worst with ‘Various Artists’ (that’s where all the sampler albums usually go.)
So it was changed into the current implementation.

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Don’t get me wrong here, i’m not suggesting to put all tracks under 1 album. the problem with Various Artists is a real pain in the s :slight_smile: yes.

But just, we keep the albums found on the net, so album1, album2 and album3. Just 1 extra album, a virtual one which will come back in all artists of course. When clicking this ‘album’ you see all the tracks of that artist.

This should be an setting in the options… like ‘enable Virtual Album’ :slight_smile:

I’m just thinking out loud here guys :slight_smile:

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I would love for a way to view all tracks by an artist (grouped by album) without having to search or filter.

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I have artists with as many as 11 albums. I never noticed any performance issues back when Plex Web showed all albums for an artist on one page. Perhaps make it a switchable option, with a warning that some systems may experience performance issues if enabled.

I’d like to see this feature return, too.

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Now that Plex has apparently figured out how to display the complete list of tracks for the entire library, maybe that solution could be applied to the Artist detail page as well.

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