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So a friend who I share my library with was asking about Star Trek soundtracks, so I told him its on my server, he looks and notices what should be composers like Leonard Rosenman, or Jerry Goldsmith, was The Quantic Soul Orchestra, so I fixed the match to the correct album, and they all look fine now, however I decided to look at what else was incorrectly tagged with Quantic, 58 albums, so I start going thru each one to fix it, the found match is correct, I apply it… and it says the album artist is now Thomas Bergersen, which is funny as I do not have any albums at all by his name, only the group he goes under Two Steps From Hell.
All these albums that seem to have issues are compilation CDs, but they either have Various Artists as the album artist or that field is blank. any suggestions as to what to do?
stick to the folder structure Music > Album Artist > Album Title > Tracks
Compilations by Various Artists go into Music > Various Artists > Album Title > Tracks, i.e. ‘Various Artists’ is just a regular artist and will be treated equally.
Look up each of your compilation albums at musicbrainz.org and see what is used there as the Album Artist for each album.
Separate-out all albums who share their album artist, so they are in a common ‘artist’ folder on disk.
Equally, you want to avoid having albums with different Album Artists to be stored together in the same Artist folder.
If ‘Prefer Local Metadata’ is activated in the properties of your music library, you absolutely want to populate the Album Artist metatag in your files.
Ok, looks like even a few single artist albums are the same, even trying fix the match it either does nothing and keeps the Quantic soul, or for some reason changes it to Thomas, I am just going to manually adjust its to Various Artists.
My Folder Structure is kind of odd but should not have any issues with Plex, Music\A\Acoustic Alchemy\1987 - Red Dust & Spanish Lace\01 - Acoustic Alchemy - Mr. Chow.mp3 and for compilation albums I either have them under a folder called Misc or for soundtracks, under a folder for soundtracks and under that if its for anime or movies or TV shows.
So Plex ignores metadata, and only goes by file name and folder name? then whats the point of having metadata in the files that’s correct to the album? I just checked and most of the incorrectly tagged albums in Plex are correctly set for Album Artist as Various Artists, but it decided to just randomly choose another artist for it.
