This seems to be the same problem i have with compilation albums. It drives me to distraction. A compilation album is made up from songs that have different contributing artists. This information is just lost.
it makes finding music difficult, and you have to fudge the metadata. just to make it work / look acceptable.
years of trying to get a sensible solution.
much sadness
Compilations? Compilations?
Here is my precious âRock And Roll Doctorâ tribute to Lowell George (along with my most favorite thing in the whole world; Popular Tracks - weâll get back to that) as it sits in my Little Feat collection - because I put it there. Lowell George was Little Feat. It seemed only natural to have a tribute album performed by Giants of the industry for him to be included in with Little Feat. I dunno⊠maybe itâs just me.
Here are the various artists as they appear on this treasured article:
Here is what a search produces when looking for⊠say⊠âTaj Mahalâ:
And finally here is how I made it happen in 2 minutes with MP3Tag:
Now, really⊠if someone canât get this to work it can only be for a couple of reasons:
Now, pick one.
@tphoney said:
A compilation album is made up from songs that have different contributing artists. This information is just lost.
Not true.
it makes finding music difficult, and you have to fudge the metadata. just to make it work / look acceptable.
You have to make the metadata correctly. No fudging necessary.
Set the âAlbumArtistâ to the artists name under which the album shall appear.
Set the âArtistâ to the name of the artist which shall appear on the particular track.
Works. See above. AlbumArtist is set to âGenesisâ in this example.
@OttoKerner said:
Works. See above. AlbumArtist is set to âGenesisâ in this example.
Two rights make it right.
@FEA5T said:
I am not referring specifically to Record singles, but rather, modern music. None of the artists I listen to make albums anymore. As an example. Almost all hits from Justin Bieber are singles before they ever appear on an album.
Thatâs funny. The music industryâs been releasing singles ahead of albums since the beginning of modern recorded music. In fact, at first, studio albums didnât exist and the albums that were released were a sort of greatest hits compilation with a few other tracks thrown in. Your experience has nothing to do with modern music.
@FEA5T said:
Does plex really expect all users to have the knowledge/capability to tag these common tracks with the correct album?
I canât think of any music store with a download service where the tracks arenât already tagged. If youâre talking about pirated music you got from somewhere else, then yes, PLEX expects you to tag them with the correct info.
shakes head in bewilderment
@srewobwj
Thatâs funny. The music industryâs been releasing singles ahead of albums since the beginning of modern recorded music. In fact, at first, studio albums didnât exist and the albums that were released were a sort of greatest hits compilation with a few other tracks thrown in. Your experience has nothing to do with modern music.
You are proving my point, I know this. The difference now is that singles are released electronically.
I canât think of any music store with a download service where the tracks arenât already tagged.
My point isnât that they arenât tagged. My point is that they ARE tagged, PROPERLY, and still donât have an Album
Look: Soundcloud? Bandcamp? Etc there are so many more? Do I even need to list more?
How about a free download song on soundcloud to prove my pointâŠfeel free to inspect the tags!
How can a music service tag a single with an album, if the single doesnât have an album?
Itâs 2017. Time to get with it. Not all music has, or is tagged with an album. And music that does not have an album should not be required to be tagged with one âjust because other people are doing itâ. Not everyone is doing it, because itâs WRONG.
@FEA5T said:
Itâs 2017. Time to get with it. Not all music has, or is tagged with an album. And music that does not have an album should not be required to be tagged with one âjust because other people are doing itâ. Not everyone is doing it, because itâs WRONG.
Let us know in 2019 how thatâs been working out for ya. Odds are that even if itâs WRONG, Plex will still be doing it that way especially if history is any indication of future events.
Just wondered if there yet a fix for this bug in Plex?
I cant currently search artist tracks if they are in Various artists
@kevin_watt1 said:
I cant currently search artist tracks if they are in Various artists
You can search them
but you canât browse them.
If you use the âsearchâ bar in Plex Web for instance, you can find tracks which are only available on âVarious Artistsâ albums. Of course you need to know what you are searchiong for and at least remember a part of their name or the name of track artist.
Lets be real here, If I search for an artist and choose the artist view, it should list all albums their material appear on, both dedicated albums and compilations.
Plex does NOT do the latter. It is a HUGE shortcoming. There is no reason that artist view doesnât pick up these various artist compilations. NONE.
Itâs an OR in a database SELECT statement with an ORDER BY. Maybe a UNION to make the sort work a bit better, but Iâm telling you, I can code this in about 5 minutes.
Plex please fix this.
Artists on compilation albums (Various Artists album artist tag, with correct artist tag) are not listed as artists in the Plex Artist library. Depending on how much of your library is made up of compilations you could be missing many many artists when browsing the list.
The âArtistâ tag should used when browse artists, and the âalbum artistsâ tag should be used when browsing albums.
Fixing that will also fix the âFor every random single I have a corresponding album is forced onto my albums listâ. If the artist tag is used properly you could create one giant Various Artist âSinglesâ album with all your random one off tracks with the correct artist tag and only that one album would display in albums but under individual artists you would see the track listed as coming from that compilation âsingles albumâ.
Or if the âAlbumâ tag is blank then donât list it as [unknown album] in albums, just leave it off or give us an option to hide unknown albums.
After years of using Kodi I am working with Plex for two weeks now. Finally all my media on a new nas and a great program to finally be able to enjoy all of it on all my equipment. I am seriously thinking about registering for a Plex Pass, but want to be sure everything works like a charm. My movies, tv-shows, documentaries and even Dutch cabaret shows are amazing. I am a great fan! But then I started to enter my music collection.
I am a kind of rare person perhaps, but 95% of my collection of 100s of CDâs (meanwhile all ripped and ready to use in Plex) are compilation cdâs. Might have something to do with that I was a dj for a long time. But even as a child I was not that interested either in artist cdâs.
I started with two separate libraries for music. One for artist cdâs and one for compilation cdâs. Not sure that was the right choice, but can change that of course. But then I entered the first 20 compilation albums. The music was all over the place! Even though all my music is tagged in a miniscule way. A lot of my albums contain 2 or more cdâs. Some albums were put together, most of them were not and got a separate album for all the cdâs. There also was one which had an album containing two of the four cdâs and two separate cdâs for the third and forth album. Although all my albums are tagged Various Artists, some songs ended up under unknown, Artist, Various and a few more. Even songs from albums that are recognised. Then 4 songs are under Various in the right album (but unable to play) and the rest of the songs are under Various Albums in the same, but clearly seen as a different) album (being able to play), wich contains again a 2nd album with the same name as cd#2. Really, it was a mess and with only 20 albums. I have 100s to goâŠ
Due to remarks in this thread I started to enter the same names in all the albums and change everything to Various Artists. Now within a few minutes at least all the albums are in the same spot and most of them list all the titleâs of that album in one long row. I have problems with one or two, but Iâll look into that. Still learning! All artists and titles are good and searchable.
Instead of choosing for artist but album view for my compilation abums, it presents me now with a great overview of the albums. I was afraid that I had to click on various artists all the time. I think the spreading between artist cdâs and collection cdâs was a wise one. Otherwise I will end up with 40 artists and 95% of my collection under Various Artists.
But indeed, I can already tell that it will be a huge problem for me not to be able to get an overview of a single artist. I am sure that there are lots of artists from who I have almost all songs, but spread over for instance 20 compilation albums with Various Artists. In all my tags I put in great effort to get all artists written in the same way so that in ots or other programâs it will be searchable and that leads to a list from that artist. Ots is great to play with, but in my house I want the music presented differently and available on all players, like the movies. But in Plex I can only use the search function and see the results there. Pressing enter will give me all the artwork of the albums which contain a track of that artist, without knowing which song is in which album. That might be doable with my few albums inserted now, but when all are in place, that is not the way to go. The information is clearly to grab so I am not sure too why this is not a possibility.
It will be a deal-breaker for me if there is no way of getting an overview per artist.
I just think about it. This will be even a step further, but would be great. When you click on a movie, you get an overview of actors. Clicking on one gives you an overview of all the movies and series you have in which that actor plays a role. It would be so great when I can click on a compilation cd and perhaps play it. Then one of the artist makes me happy and I want to play some more songs of that artist instead of continuing with the compilation cd. If clicking on the artist name would present the (missing) list with all tracks of that artist⊠that would be a function that might be loved by a lot of people.
Iâll be figuring out the program some more in the next weeks. Itâs here to say for movies and series. Hopefully too for the music.
@JuiceWSA It is now 2019. I have imported all of my albums correctly, fixed them up, and now I am baffled as to how to handle thousands of singles and EPs I have laying around.
Porter Robinsonâs & Madeonâs Shelter EP has two artists. It should appear under both Porter Robinson and Madeon when looking at their artist profiles. I should not have a new artist called âPorter Robinson & Madeonâ in my library. Theyâre unlikely to publish more EPs together any time soon.
This is highly annoying, especially knowing that inside that singles folder I have some remixes made by two artists of a song thatâs a collaboration of three other artists.
@anon18523487 Hereâs my concrete set of proposals from someone with fresh eyes on the problem, since youâve requested something a bit more actionable:
Artist 1, Artist 2, Artist 3 - Song Name should appear in all three artistâs discographies.Artist 1 - Song Title (feat. Jon Doe), Artist 1 - Song Title (Jon Doe Remix), and Artist 1 - Song Title (Cover by Jon Doe) should all be associated with both Jon Doe and Artist 1 and be a click or two away when Iâm looking at their respective pages.I believe all four of these are actionable, and would improve the versatility of music libraries in Plex quite a bit.
