I am now familiar with how Plex utilizes the "album artist" tag for grouping purposes - and it does a fine job with that. However, when I search by artist, Plex never looks at the "artist" tag - and so will pull up no results when I search through a compilation album for a specific artist.
Example: An album (and all individual tracks within) with "album artist" as "Various Artists", but with each track having a unique "artist" tag will never search properly - because it is only ever looking at the "album artist" tag.
So, am I missing something here or is there a way to tell Plex to search the "artist" tag when performing an artist search? It seems a little silly that every single compilation album is basically never going to be searched.