[Music] Display all albums on which an artist appears, on their artist page

[_vandal]

This thought hit me today when I added some new music by an artist for whom I already had another track in my library.

I scanned my music again and ended up clicking through to the artist page from the “Recently Added” section in Recommended and only saw the one album/track that I knew I had just added.

I was confused for a brief moment because I was positive I had at least one other track by this artist. Then I went to the search bar just to make sure I wasn’t remembering incorrectly; sure enough when I typed in the artist name, the track I was looking for came back in the results.

It then came back to me that this other track was released on a compilation album with multiple artists, so it did make sense why it wasn’t listed under an album on the artist page. It shows up on the “Various Artists” artist page.

But my question is… wouldn’t it be reasonable to add a section in the artist page called “Featured On Album(s)” / “Appears On Album(s)” or something to that effect, which enumerates any albums for which this artist is not the album artist, but is the artist of one or more tracks on the album?

I figured the best place to display this would be either above or below the “Similar Artists” header in Plex Web and under the “Popular Tracks” list in Plexamp. Maybe the UI designers feel this would make the artist page too “busy” - but at least to me, it would be really useful. Wondering if anyone else would be in favor of having this feature available.

I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I assume it is more relevant to the interfaces of the players than the server software, since all of the metadata that would be required to display this is already available.

Thanks for reading.

[OttoKerner]

This is unfortunately a very well known limitation of Plex and is rooted in how the internal database is organized.

[_vandal]

Thanks for the response, Otto. I guess without knowing the architecture of said database I can’t really understand what the limitation is, but the part that seems strange to me is that it’s currently possible to search by an artist name and get a list of all of their tracks from any album in return, regardless of who the album artist is. Yet for some reason, it would not be technically feasible to perform the same query and roll up to a list of albums that those tracks belong to? It seems like the only thing left to do after that would be filtering only the albums having an album artist that does not match the given artist page and rendering those in a separate category.