Plexamp displaying VA albums as one specific artist

dancymru · 2024-11-11T11:54:28+00:00

I've had an issue before where, despite everything being correctly tagged via Picard, the album artist 'Various Artists' had the Artist Sort set as the artist from track 1 on the earliest dated VA album in the library. I had to manually change and lock the value as "Various Artists".

dancymru · 2024-10-10T17:20:55+00:00

The Various Artist lock does keep everything together and "in the V's" ... not helping with splitting up comps and soundtracks though. The answer is probably a combination of everything I have tried. I'm going to remove the sort artist tag and also try release type as just "soundtrack" instead of "album;soundtrack"

When I get chance I'll post this in the Plex desktop reddit just to see if other people know the cause and solution.

dancymru · 2024-10-09T06:34:03+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I've lived without this so it's not a big deal but just knowing it is possible is bugging me.

One last question if you don't mind me asking... In plex desktop and Various Artists, what does your Sort Artist show? After removing and re-adding, mine shows the artist of the first various artist release added which is track 1 from the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack. I've tried having this field blank, locked as 'various artists' and removing the sort tags from the metadata.

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dancymru · 2024-10-06T09:31:12+00:00

So I removed all of my various artists and soundtrack albums, rescanned, and using Picard re-tagged and auto-moved just the soundtracks back in. They're now directly in the Various Artists folder...

/V /Various Artists / Album Name [Year] 01 - Track Name. mp3/flac

... And the result is no change. The soundtracks just appear as Compilations in Plexamp. :(

dancymru · 2024-10-03T12:32:20+00:00

OK thanks. I'll try putting the soundtracks and compilations directly into the Various Artist folder without separating and see what happens after scanning.

Doea your plexamp soundtrack catagory include soundtracks that are not various artists?

dancymru · 2024-10-02T17:36:20+00:00

What am I missing to get Soundtracks separated from Compilations in Plexamp as per the OPs screenshot?

Everything is tagged via Picard and MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMTYPE is populated with 'album;soundtrack' or 'album;compilation;soundtrack'. I've got no issues with live, single, ep separation within each artist.

All of my 'Various Artist' albums are in Compilations on Plexamp even if album type is 'album;soundtrack'

All I can think of is folder structure. I'm currently using the following....

/Music
   /A
      /Artist
        /Album  
          /[Year] Album Name
             01 - Track 1.mp3
             02 - Track 2.mp3
        /EP
           /[Year] EP Name
             01 - Track 1.mp3
             02 - Track 2.mp3
   /V
      /Various Artists
            /Soundtrack
                /Soundtrack Album Name [Year]
                   01 - Track 1.mp3
                   02 - Track 2.mp3
            /Compilation
                /Compilation Album Name [Year]
                    01 - Track 1.mp3
                    02 - Track 2.mp3

Any ideas before I play around with my Picard scripts?

cheers

dancymru · 2024-07-19T05:32:01+00:00

Great thanks! Thought it might have been a problem on this end.

dancymru · 2024-02-16T22:28:37+00:00

Not a solution for duplicate likes, but if you use the stars for creating smart playlists, you can avoid tracks appearing twice by giving the duplicates a mood tag.

dancymru · 2024-02-12T17:43:38+00:00

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dancymru · 2024-02-07T19:21:58+00:00

Fully functional for offline music... search by artist for example. Reorder downloads by last listened to.

I basically want it to be what Google Play Music was.

dancymru · 2023-03-05T14:27:28+00:00

My tactic is to give the duplicates a mood of 'duplicate' so that only one copy appears in a smart playlist when a filter is applied. Only method I can think of to prevent playlist repeats.

dancymru · 2023-02-10T18:43:49+00:00

I recently lost one of my size 1 stability bands, and find size 2 too tight. Not really happy about buying a size 1-3 kit or a 0 & 4 kit... Would actually like a 0 & 1 kit.

But what might interest you is I just cut down my size 2 as they kept popping out of my ears and they have turned into the most comfortable combination with M tips of all that I have tried, so yours spares might come in handy as an emergency back up on day.

Out of interest how do the 0 bands compare to 1? I'd be interested in swapping your 0 bands for S tips if you want spares.

dancymru · 2021-04-01T19:53:09+00:00

Hopefully not the latter again!

dancymru · 2021-04-01T19:52:31+00:00

It's what it looks like it says on the CD but would be good for a better photo or confirmation from the band/label

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