Two bands with the same name

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: windows
Player Version#: windows

In my collection, I have two artists with the same name. “Architects”. One band from KCMO, and the other from Europe somewhere. Interestingly enough, when Plex ingested my music library, it actually listed them as 2 different bands, which is great. However, I have some live tracks, not an official album, that it stuck under the wrong band. How do I go about moving that to the correct band?

I compared the metadata, and they both appear to be the same…listing both bands as “Architects”. So nothing to change there to force it over. (I was hoping one would be “The Architects” and I could just make that change). I tried changing the poster on the “album” to match the correct band. That didn’t work. I also tried to just drag the album from one artist to the other, which also did not work.

Any suggestions?

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“Fix Match”.

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It’s an unofficial release so I am guessing they won’t be able to match it. My suggestion, make an edit to the album artists within Plex and add a special character at the end so that it becomes a new artist, that is distinct from the other 2. Then merge it into the correct artist by selecting the correct artist first, then the dummy artist and clicking merge.

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It’s not about fixing the match of the release, but the artist.

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I understand, but they’re saying an unofficial release is stuck under the wrong artist, so unless they match the entire artist into the incorrect artist first then match each single release back into the correct artist not sure how they can use match.

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I think this is one of the situations which is more easy to manage if “prefer local meta tags” is enabled.
However, this does require the embedded meta tags and the folder structure to be immaculate.
I’d check first if the folder structure is like this:

/Music
   /Architects (UK)
      /Album 1
      /Album 2
      ...
   /Architects (US)
      /Album 1
      /Album 2
      ...

i.e. all albums which are by one specific version of the band, are stored together underneath a common “artist” folder.
Only then you will get the “split” action on an artist, if required.

You should also be able to use the Musicbrainz ID of the artist in the Fix Match dialog.

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FWIW Otto, my file structure is pretty clean and organized as you stated when it got mis-assigned. I tried the trick suggested above to rename the artist for that album to a different, 3rd name, then merge to the correct name. That worked!

Thank you all so much for the help.

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