“sort album artist” is only observed when the album artist is added into the Plex database for the first time."
Well, that’s interesting. I did a refresh metadata on my music library to fix the date issue, and now all album artists no longer respect the “sort album artist” tag from my files. All solo artists have the “sort album artist” tag in the file as lastname, firstname (e.g. Cohen, Leonard; Winehouse, Amy; Taylor, James), but Plex now shows the “sort artist” tag in Plex as firstname, lastname.
Not cool.
Update: Did the Plex Dance on my music library, adding artists back one at a time to test. Plex is completely ignoring the embedded “sort album artist” tag when I add my music back into the Library. I really don’t want to have to edit every single artist’s metadata in Plex to sort them the way I want. I really do want to see Tori Amos before Leonard Cohen in my library.
