Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[paultaylor]

(21-11-2023 13:08)paultaylor Wrote:  testing this all out I found didnt actually work it was still showing combined artists


aliasTags: Artists:-Artist
indexTags: All Artists:Artists


but changing to:

aliasTags: Artists:-Artist
indexTags: Artist:Artists


did work, which is better really, but why is this I thought All Artists index was based on the value of the Artist field which we modified using the alias ?

I realized this made no sense since the Artist index is the special confusingly named index. I was using a large library on a melco which was a bit unwieldy to change and test things because of its size and slow speed of melco so I have now moved to running MnimServer on a Pc on a small library and for that


aliasTags: Artists:-Artist
indexTags: All Artists:Artists

does work as expected.

So sorry for confusion probaly something else causing the issue.

However, this does clearly highlight the problem with having these special Artist and All Artists index that are not defined clearly in the properties and cause confusion when you try to do something else.