Having a problem sorting music

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I am trying to sort my albums by artist. For some artist Plex sorts by first name and others by last name. For example I am getting the following for the first four artists after a sort:

  • Arron Copeland
  • Beegie Adair
  • Alicia Witt
  • Andreas Vollenweider

Is it possible for Plex to sort by last name only?

Server Version#: 1.22.0.4163 on a Synology NAS.

Thank you

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Do those files have embedded metadata?
e.g. artist = Beegie Adair, sort-title = Adair, Beegie.

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The albums that have metadata have first and last name in that order. About 20 percent have no metadata at all.
Regards,

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I have updated the metadata for the albums that were missing the data. The sort does not change.

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Once it’s in the Plex database in the wrong order, you can’t change it by editing the embedded metadata of your files.

You’ll either have to

  • “Plex Dance” the whole artist
  • edit the artist inside of Plex and change its “Sort Title” manually
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All went well. Thank you for the help.

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