Why does Plex sometimes display the artist after the track name and sometimes not.
They are both tagged with Artist and Album Artist, so for example:
1 Album displays like this:
With the track names and artist
But another I just added shows like this:
With just the track names
In most cases, Plex only shows the track artist if it is not the same as the album artist - for example “album artist featuring another artist”
There’s also a long existing bug that only affects mp4/m4a files where those type of files always show the track artist, even if it is the same as the album artist. The bug is probably only noticeable if your music library is configured to use local metadata.
Personally, I would prefer the track artist always be visible, but I doubt there’s much interest.
Thanks,
That would make sense as the Album(s) showing artist names are indeed made up of m4a files.
(I digress, but It is such shame Plex generally seem so uninterested / slow in fixing bugs… but I guess I should be used to that by now…)
me too.
I need to allow/use local metadata as I have loads of 12" and 7" Singles that are not in Musicbrainz.
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