Something happened to the way Plex scanned / categorized music?

Server Version#: Version 1.40.2.8351
Player Version#: OpenPHT latest, or the last ever
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I’m not sure what causes this, but I noticed my music albums and artists are showing as a list instead of a picture of that artist / album. Every other category shows just fine, movies, tv etc.

And when I switch user to my daughter, a supervised user with access only to 2 categories, childen movies and tv shows, they both are also showing as lists instead of pictures.

Those lists are only showing on all of my Odroid based OpenPHT-players, on my Android phone and Win10 laptop they are all okay.

I also noticed Plex has found way more artists in the music category since the last time I checked, and split some of the albums of the same artist to under two different artists. For example I had albums from Sia and they were all under that name, now I have two artists, Sia and Sia Furler, both of them without artist photo.
Now I also have new artists called 1986, 1992 and 1995. They each have one album under their name, and they are all albums by Toto. Fahrenheit (from 1986), Kingdom of Desire (from 1992) and Tambu (from 1995).
Dire Straits has lost both artist and album cover arts etc etc.
Something very strange has happened at the Plex’s end, I guess?

OpenPHT has long since (several years, actually) ceased to be developed further and adapted to the newest Plex features.
It might just be that the latest server has become changed too much for that old client.

Your best bet is to:

  1. switch the operating system to something like LibreElec (basically stripped down Linux with Kodi as only app)
  2. install the Kodi Add-On PM4K into Kodi. (now available from the official add-in repository) PM4K / PlexMod for Kodi (18, 19, 20, 21)

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