If you play the Library Radio, does any songs from Various Artists show up?
Regards
Bernt
To be honest, I don’t really know, but I don’t think any tracks from Various Artists albums play in Library Radio. I’m quite sure they won’t show up in an Artist Radio either…
I’m pretty sure that Various Artist tracks do show up in other radio stations, such as Time Travel radio, Genre Radio, Decade Radio, and probably even Mood Radio if Plex has assigned Moods to any of those albums or tracks. I have never added a “mood” to any track or album manually, I just rely on Plex to take care of that. Since I have local metadata enabled, my situation may be different than yours.
As an example, if I create a smart playlist where the criteria is Artist=Various Artist, and Album Mood=Bittersweet, I get a list of 15 albums. I assume that a mood radio of Bittersweet would include tracks from those albums.
Here’s a screenshot of most played in August from Plexamp. Two compilation albums are at the top of the list. Almost every month has at least one VA album in the top 10. And since about 99% of my music plays are some sort of radio, Plex has obviously played tracks from compilation/Various Artists albums.
If, and when, Plex ever uses the metadata from individual tracks for genre, track artist, etc, Library Radio and Artist Radio might become actually functional. Until then, you will likely need to use a different radio station to include all of the tracks from your library.
Library and Artist radio will never include “all tracks” because they’re designed to take into account rating/popularity. If you’re looking for all tracks, just do a shuffle of your entire library.
After the latest PMS update, Mood and Style Radio works. Thank you!
And, songs from VA album show up to, atleast in Mood and Style Radio. This is GREAT!
Can’t wait for the next road trip! 
Best Regards
Bernt
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glad to hear!
I spook to soon. VA albums is not included in Stations\Radio.
Logitech Media Server\Squeezebox do this very well but they don’t have CarPlay (yet, iPeng?).
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