Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

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(22-11-2023 20:11)paultaylor Wrote:  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

Sorry, I was attempting to use that Elton John album and the Artist tag to demonstrate the issue you'd face with the AlbumArtist tag as you weren't following my previous example.

If we apply it back to your original example, a Johnny Cash UPnP search would return all track artists AND album artists containing the string 'Johnny Cash' so the result could look something like:

Code:

Johnny Cash                <matching the Artist tag and maybe an AlbumArtist tag>
Johnny Cash & ...          <matching an AlbumArtist tag>
Johnny Cash & June Carter  <matching an AlbumArtist tag>
... & Johnny Cash          <matching an AlbumArtist tag>

(22-11-2023 20:11)paultaylor Wrote:  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 confirm that mconnect on Android just applies a filter so I assume it's the same for iOS, but I've never used 8player.
I'm using BubbleUPnP on Android, but I think the Linn app is available on iOS which does have a UPnP search so you could try that. I'm sure there are others but I don't have any iOS devices to test with.

(22-11-2023 20:11)paultaylor Wrote:  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.

The only reason I mentioned it is because I've asked the author of BubbleUPnP if he can add a setting to change the display type (grid/list and size) based on the content type e.g. albums/artists/other. I know in Hi-Fi Cast you can set the album view, but I'm not sure if any others work that way.

(22-11-2023 20:11)paultaylor Wrote:  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.

A UPnP search isn't based on what's specified in indexTags so changing indexTags won't affect any of that.

It sounds like you don't use search so maybe none of this will affect you, I was just trying to make you aware of the nuances of trying to use multiple album artists as I've encountered them myself when trying to do similar.