Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[paultaylor]

(21-11-2023 17:48)simbun Wrote:  If we use this Elton John album as an example, it sounds like you're storing:

TRACK 1: ARTIST=Elton John & Dua Lipa
TRACK 2: ARTIST=Elton John, Young Thug & Nicki Minaj
...

Then storing the multi-valued artist tag in ARTISTS e.g.

TRACK 1: ARTISTS=Elton John
TRACK 1: ARTISTS=Dua Lipa
TRACK 2: ARTISTS=Elton John
TRACK 2: ARTISTS=Young Thug
TRACK 2: ARTISTS=Nicki Minaj
...

that is correct, however...

(21-11-2023 17:48)simbun Wrote:  These are the results for my UPnP search for 'Elton John' in BubbleUPnP:


As you can see I have 1 Artist returned, and that Artist is Elton John. If I click through it will lead me to all of his tracks where he's a track artist.

If I performed the same search against just this one album using your data I'd have 16 results for Artist, containing:
Elton John & Dua Lipa
Elton John, Young Thug & Nicki Minaj
...
Obviously the AlbumArtist search problem won't be as bad as this Artist example, but I hope you understand the potential issue.

I dont understand why your uPnP search would return
Elton John, Young Thug & Nicki Minaj since we are not storing the artist value it is being replaced by the artists value, note the minus

Artists:-Artist

There is no search in Linn Kinsky so I tried *mconnectHD* and *8player Pro* on my iPad. These both have search, but im thinking that maybe it is a local search rather than uPnP search because im not getting results like you, what control point did yo try this on.

I can see visually if I set indexArtwork=none that with my preferred config Artist is an artist object and Album Artists is not, but I dont know if that actually matters.

I could keep the existing Artist (Album Artist) and All Artists (Track Artist) and separately add an AlbumArtists and AlbumArtists index, I will give that a try but it seems like overkill.