Obviously
I’m asking because if that’s enabled it should be using the tags for the artist title, and if your tags say it’s LISERSTILLE it should display exactly like that as the artist title on the album page.
You could DM me a sample file and I can take a look.
None of my tags say LISERSTILLE that’s coming from Musicbrainz and is the original problem of the OP (that name is partly correct since the artist started stylizing their name as such on this album).
My problem is that my track artist is Lis Er Stille note the capital E. The artist on Musicbrainz is Lis er Stille note lower case e and PLEX overrides my tags with that
I just refreshed metadata (again) after I tried to reproduce it on a new library which I couldn’t and now it changed it to E
Could it be that if I changed that tag sometime after the artist was first created in my library that it doesn’t get updated even with a metadata refresh? That could’ve happened
I’ll DM you a sample file anyway
Thanks, the fix in the beta seems to resolve this problem too - I couldn’t repro the issue with “Prefer local metadata” enabled.
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Posting a similar issue in case it has a related cause. I had one album in my library, TRIO, by Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt and EmmyLou Harris (that is the artist of the album). I added at a later date a solo Dolly Parton album (Hi, My Name is Dolly). The album matches to Dolly Parton but the artist in Plex for this album shows the same as for the TRIO album. I can’t get it to respect the local metadata setting or even the artist that Plex’s own discovery process has matched.
PS: Another screenshot here showing that the Dolly Parton artist entry in Plex also shows the wrong name. Note the description is for Dolly herself, not the trio. But the name is wrong.
PSS: It is possible this stems from a problem with the source data combined with my own, accurate, local metadata:
Still significant artist issues with latest version of Plex. Looks like it is not respecting Album Artist, but difficult to say. I can’t seem to correct Plex’s artist assignments, which don’t match the matched album in question.
For example:
In a collection with a large number of albums by “Mark Kozalek”, all of which have Album Artist set to “Mark Kozalek”, I have several with different Artist names, such as his band “Sun Kil Moon”. In iTunes, all of these albums are sorted under the artist “Mark Kozalek”, because it properly respects the Album Artist field. In Plex, we have a giant mess, with artist bios incorrectly named, duplicated, and albums listed under the wrong artist name. This is all caused by Plex, as the same data is properly organized in other music management applications.
Refreshing doesn’t seem to do much at all. Looking for advice.
Yes I can confirm this - it happens when you have albums by both the single artist and the collaboration:
Artist A & Artist B - Album 1
Artist A - Album 2
Since Plex nor last.fm understands multiple artists, it matches “Artist A & Artist B” against Musicbrainz/last.fm, which gets you the bio/MBid of Artist A. But it retains “Artist A & Artist B” artist name field. This gets very annoying with subsequent albums by Artist A, which all appear to be by the collaboration.
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Another strange example, which goes probably in the same direction:
I own albums and imported albums from TIDAL by an artist called Electer. Now I realized, that Plex changed the artist to The Selecter. There is no relation at all and I do not have anything from The Selecter.
Even when I try to overwrite the album artist and save the Album, Plex just changes it back.
How can Plex think, that they know, better who the album artist is and mess up my library?
Please fix this behaviour.
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