While the ‘Artist’ tag is present in Plex (it will show up next to the track title) it’s not searchable.
Actually, it’s a bit more complex….when there is no ‘Album Artist’ in the metadata, then Plex uses ‘Artist’ (if present of course) and then it does show up in the search.
But if you do have a tag for ‘Album Artist’ AND ‘Artist’, then the ‘Artist’ is completely ignored in the search results!?
That’s really too bad because it could be very useful:
I was hoping to use the ‘Artist’ tag for collab albums (e.g. very common in jazz) where I could still use the main artist as ‘Album Artist’ but also add in the ‘Artist’ tag for the other artists appearing alongside the main artist.
This way, let’s say I’m searching for John Coltrane, I would be able to find every occurence of him in my music collection. Not just when he’s the bandleader, but also when for example, he appears on the Miles Davis albums (and others).
Other times, the artist I would like to search is purely a sideman or a featured artist on a specific song, and there too a searchable ‘Artist’ tag would be super useful!
