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A walkthrough for optimal Audiobook experience using Plex
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Plex album artist (author) sort mixing between first name and last name #48

Closed chuccck closed 2 years ago

chuccck commented 2 years ago

struggling to figure out why some of these books are sorted by first name and some by last name. Ive looked at the tags and the plex info and they all have the same author name

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seanap commented 2 years ago

Likely because you have "Sort: Last Name, First" selected in the agent settings, but the agent couldn't auto match the artist. image

Go to an artist that isn't sorted Last, First and see if its matched

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seanap commented 2 years ago

For a point of reference not all artists will match, Audible doesn't have artist profiles for everyone. For me 1 in 8 artists are unmatched (no Audible artist page).

For unmatched artists that you are unable to find a match in audible you can Edit the artist and set a SORT ARTIST manually. Or just uncheck the Sort Artist in the agent settings and keep it sorted by First-Last. image

chuccck commented 2 years ago

awesome tips, thanks for the help!

seanap commented 2 years ago

If I can add one more unrelated tip, I found with the way plex currently works it's easier to keep a single artist in the ALBUMARTIST tag. This is absolutely personal preference, but there are some artists who do a lot of collaborations that I like to keep all in the same Artist .

The book you have with Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson in Mp3tag I just default to picking the first artist that Audible lists and keeping only that as the ALBUMARTIST. That is why in mp3tag I put all artists, editors, translators, etc in the ARTIST tag, so all artists are still searchable but they just show up on the track level not the album level.

Probably not a big deal with that book in particular but for books by J.N. Chaney it can get a bit ridiculous.

chuccck commented 2 years ago

Thanks that's helpful

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 3:22 PM seanap @.***> wrote:

If I can add one more unrelated tip, I found with the way plex currently works it's easier to keep a single artist in the ALBUMARTIST tag. This is absolutely personal preference, but there are some artists who do a lot of collaborations that I like to keep all in the same Artist .

The book you have with Ken Blanchard, Spencer Johnson in Mp3tag I just default to picking the first artist that Audible lists and keeping only that as the ALBUMARTIST. That is why in mp3tag I put all artists, editors, translators, etc in the ARTIST tag, so all artists are still searchable but they just show up on the track level not the album level.

Probably not a big deal with that book in particular but for books by J.N. Chaney it can get a bit ridiculous.

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