How do I prevent Plex agent from renaming AlbumArtist 'Various Artists' into 'Various'?

actually plex already does, however it has some internal logic and database design that runs counter to what could be considered ‘normal’ to just about any other music library app.

for example, plex specifically (or at least did during the posts of this thread) removes the track artist if the track artist is the same as the album artist.

if you read this thread, it will tell you exactly what file and section of that scanner is causing that and how to ‘fix’ it (at least until the next time plex is updated).

this just being one example of plex making assumptions about people’s music library and forcing/wanting us to adopt only the ‘plex way’ of media organization.