Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

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(20-11-2023 22:52)paultaylor Wrote:  So decoding these answers is the rule simply that

- The AlbumArtist field (i.e ALBUMARTIST for flac, TPE2 for ID3v24, aART for Mp4) must be a consistent single value for correctly identifying albums
- And therefore using an aliasTag to map album_artists into albumartist would break that.
- But as long as I dont do anything to mess up the value of AlbumArtist fields I can create by own Album Artist type index as I wish ?

Whilst there are ways to get it to look right:

Code:

indexTags: Album_Artists:AlbumArtist
tagFormat: AlbumArtist.displayFormat={$Album_Artists}

Because it isn't an Artist tag (to MinimServer) it's still a second class citizen, so your index will made up of '<upnp:class>object.container</upnp:class>' instead of '<upnp:class>object.container.person.musicArtist</upnp:class>' which may affect your browsing, and none of the additional album artists will be returned from a search (at least not as an album artist).

The inconsistency in the search results was what put me off.