Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[paultaylor]

(21-11-2023 12:35)simoncn Wrote:  Both the above approaches do the same for album artists.

Hang on I wasnt suggesting both of these approach for Album Artist I had settled on

aliasTags:Album_artists:Album Artists
indexTags:Album_Artists.default={AlbumArtist}

because it was my understanding that we must not have multiple values for the AlbumArtist field for the purposes of album identifivcation so the other way using aliases was ruled out ?

(21-11-2023 12:35)simoncn Wrote:  Factoring this out of the comparison, we are left with:

option 1:
aliasTags: Artists:-Artist
indexTags: All Artists:Artists

option 2:
indexTags: Artists
tagValue: Artists.default={Artist}

Option 1 combines Artists and Artist file tags into internal MinimServer Artist tags. Option 2 combines Artists and Artist file tags into internal MinimServer Artists tags.

The internal MinimServer Artist tag is sent to the control point in upnp:artist and used for artist searching. The internal MinimServer Artists tag is not used for these purposes.

Okay so I get this, and therefore for Artists option 1 is the correct approach ?