Metadata From a Compilation Album Applied Across Artist

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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  • This folder structure must also be used for compilation albums/samplers! The AlbumArtist of such a sampler album is usually called “Various Artists”. Thus, the parent folder where this album is stored in, must then also be called Various Artists.

My current folder structure does follow this style, with a separate folder for Various Artists

  • Always tag an AlbumArtist.
  • Keep the folder structure Music>AlbumArtist>Albumtitle>Tracks
    That also applies to samplers and compilations!

Yep, this is how I’ve always done it.

  • Inside of an AlbumArtist folder there must not be a single track with a deviating AlbumArtist tag content.
  • All tracks of a particular album must have an identical AlbumArtist tagged. (keep in mind that AlbumArtist is not [Track]Artist. The Trackartist can differ on each track of an album.)

Yep, AlbumArtist is the same across an album (otherwise foobar2k would split it in my current setup) and they’re identical.

  • always tag a track number, on multi-disc albums tag also a disc number

I do this as well but in this case, this is a digital album that is all one medium Edit: Seems it does mark it as two disks even though it’s digital but the files are named to match for multi-disk items (file naming is automated via MBz Picard).

  • There is no multi-artist support in Plex. Ensure to put only one name into AlbumArtist. On collaboration albums you must decide which single name you want to use as AlbumArtist. You can add all contributing artists to the [Track]Artist tag.

This so far is the only thing that is deviated from Plex’s guidelines however in previous instances, Plex usually just makes an independent artist folder with the combined name (for splits and the like) which I expected how it would handle it here. A terrible looking massive name like what we see but the only album would be the compilation. The correctly tagged Firienholt independent albums would all be under a different artist called Firienholt.

  • The iTunes-“Compilation” flag in the metadata is not observed by Plex

Don’t use iTunes, most tagging is done via MBz Picard and I add custom tags beyond that. Not that I expect Plex to pick up everything, just what I use for Foobar2k.