Thanks @OttoKerner for the reminder! I missed one track that didn’t have the album artist filled in. The other albums that were mis-indexed all have that attribute missing on some or all tracks, too. I’ve just spent a boring hour with MP3Tag, filling them all in. I guess that the data source EAC is using isn’t always providing the album artist attribute.
I have to say, it feels like the Plex indexer could be smarter. It has many clues available (track artists, folder structure, online databases); it’s over-dependent on that metadata attribute. Would it not be better if it said ‘okay, that attribute is missing from the local metadata so I’ll use the next best clue’, rather than ‘throw it into Various Artists’ ? Also, I’d prefer content that it can’t index to be indexed as ‘Unknown’ - that way, it’s easy to see when it’s had a problem. For me, hiding things among my 100+ ‘Various Artists’ albums is probably the worst possible choice!
I’ve also just seen a newly-ripped album indexed under ‘Various Artists’; all the album artist tags are correct, except for one WAV format file that was left by a rip problem, which of course has no metadata tags at all. For that one WAV file to cause Plex to mis-index an otherwise fine album, is just plain silly
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Now, I can’t seem to get the index to change… I thought that the ‘Plex Dance’ was obsolete? I’ve just corrected all those album artist tags and told Plex to refresh metadata on each album as I went through, then re-scanned the whole music library at the end. The albums are still all indexed under ‘Various Artists’! What do I have to do, to make it re-index them properly?!
Perhaps you could also advise on another part of the indexing puzzle… I appear to have two ‘Various Artists’ entries and one ‘Various’ in the index. What the heck is going on?!
One classical compilation, which has no album artist tags, is indexed under partly under Various and partly under Various Artists!
