Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(21-11-2023 13:49)paultaylor Wrote:  

(21-11-2023 13:33)simbun Wrote:  I was close to suggesting that you simply concatenate the artists together, but it's something I discounted previously and I don't like to suggest solutions that I'm not happy with myself.

Im not concantenating anything, that is simply the value stored on the album, for toher albums or songs the value may be include 'ft', 'with' ectera so I see no problem with displaying the album I cant quite see what you are getting at with this ?.

So you take that approach with Artist too do you?

When I'm performing a UPnP search for an artist I'm expecting one artist result back (alongside all the other matches e.g. albumartist, tracks e.t.c) not as many unique results as they've had collaborations on.

Using Elton John as an example, the Artist results I'd get back from a UPnP search (were I to have it as a single string) would be:

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2Pac · Elton John
Elton John
Elton John · Brandi Carlile
Elton John · Britney Spears
Elton John · Charlie Puth
Elton John · Dua Lipa
Elton John · Eddie Vedder
Elton John · France Gall
Elton John · George Michael
Elton John · John Lennon
Elton John · Kiki Dee
Elton John · Millie Jackson
Elton John · Ray Cooper
Elton John · SG Lewis
Elton John · Stevie Nicks
Elton John · Stevie Wonder
Elton John · Taron Egerton
Elton John · Years & Years
Elton John · Young Thug · Nicki Minaj
Eminem · Elton John
Fall Out Boy · Elton John
George Michael · Elton John
Glen Campbell · Elton John
Gorillaz · Elton John · 6LACK
Ironik · Chipmunk · Elton John
Jimmie Allen · Elton John
Lady Gaga · Elton John
Lil Nas X · Elton John
Miley Cyrus · WATT · Elton John · Yo‐Yo Ma · Robert Trujillo · Chad Smith
Ray Charles · Elton John
Rina Sawayama · Elton John
Surfaces · Elton John

I guess it depends if, and how you use search.