diff --git a/beets/plugins.py b/beets/plugins.py
index 7998895c6..f242a7073 100644
--- a/beets/plugins.py
+++ b/beets/plugins.py
@@ -399,15 +399,15 @@ def _get_plugin(name: str) -> BeetsPlugin | None:
 
         if len(plugin_classes) > 1:
             warnings.warn(
-                f"Plugin {name} defines multiple plugin classes; "
-                f"using the first one found ({plugin_classes[0].__name__})."
+                f"Plugin '{name}' defines multiple plugin classes; "
+                f"using the first one found ({plugin_classes[0].__name__}). "
                 f"This will become an error in beets 3.0.0. Consider exporting "
                 f"the desired plugin class explicitly using `__all__`.",
                 DeprecationWarning,
                 stacklevel=2,
             )
 
-        if len(plugin_classes) == 1:
+        if len(plugin_classes) != 0:
             return plugin_classes[0]()
 
     except Exception:
diff --git a/test/test_plugins.py b/test/test_plugins.py
index df338f924..d30425bbd 100644
--- a/test/test_plugins.py
+++ b/test/test_plugins.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import logging
 import os
 import pkgutil
 import sys
+from types import ModuleType
 from unittest.mock import ANY, Mock, patch
 
 import pytest
@@ -523,3 +524,40 @@ class TestImportPlugin(PluginMixin):
         assert "PluginImportError" not in caplog.text, (
             f"Plugin '{plugin_name}' has issues during import."
         )
+
+
+class MultiPluginModule(ModuleType):
+    class DummyPlugin1(plugins.BeetsPlugin):
+        pass
+
+    class DummyPlugin2(plugins.BeetsPlugin):
+        pass
+
+    def __init__(self, *_, **__):
+        module_name = "beetsplug.multi_export"
+        super().__init__(module_name)
+        self.DummyPlugin1.__module__ = module_name
+        self.DummyPlugin1 = self.DummyPlugin1
+        self.DummyPlugin2 = self.DummyPlugin2
+        self.DummyPlugin2.__module__ = module_name
+
+
+class TestMultiPluginExport(PluginMixin):
+    """Test that exporting multiple plugins from a single namespace
+    raises a warning.
+
+    TODO: Change to raises an error on migration to 3.0.0
+    """
+
+    plugin = "multi_export"
+
+    @pytest.fixture(autouse=True, scope="class")
+    def setup(self):
+        with patch.dict(
+            sys.modules, {"beetsplug.multi_export": MultiPluginModule()}
+        ):
+            yield
+
+    def test_multi_plugin_export(self):
+        with pytest.deprecated_call():
+            self.load_plugins("multi_export")