I am struggling to figure out how to search/find tracks by specific artists.
I have a lot of “Compilation” albums. Notably, all of the Dwelling of Duels from each month.
They are structured like this:
The entire month is in a single album which has Album Artist = 'Dwelling of Duels'
Each track has Artist = 'That Artist'
The problem is that there are a lot of artists who have contributed to different Dwelling of Duels months over the years. For example, the First track in this Album is by the artist “goat”, and I know that they have many other tracks in my library.
…but if I try to search by Artist for “goat”, I don’t get anything.
If I view my Music Library by Artist, no artist with the name “goat” shows up at all.
I even tried to do an “Advanced Filter” by “Artist Title” and nothing shows up…
When I listen to the track on Plex itself or on Plexamp, it does show the artist’s name correctly and not “Dwelling of Duels” but I can’t use “Go to Artist” to find goat - It only shows “Dwelling of Duels” or whatever when I use it…
When searching by artist, viewing library by artist or filtering by artist Plex is actually using “album artist” so it will not return any results if they only appear on various artists albums.
I am about 80% sure this was already done recently, I just migrated everything from my windows machine to a new Linux server and optimized after everything was added, but I will try it again just to be sure.
Let it perform automatically, during the server maintenance period.
So you won’t have to think about it.
…that is already enabled… and I’m sure I manually optimized as part of the ‘switch to Linux’ process which I did about a month ago, after all the media files had been moved… so I’m not sure why it only worked this time.
