Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(23-11-2023 12:12)paultaylor Wrote:  

(22-11-2023 22:31)simbun Wrote:  A UPnP search isn't based on what's specified in indexTags so changing indexTags won't affect any of that.

But isn't it based on what AlbumArtist and Artist fields we have. So actually because I do nothing to the AlbumArtist field it should have no effect, but because I alias Artisst into Artist it would affect that search, whereas if I did it with

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

and left Artist field alone, it would have no effect on uPnP search ?

Yes the search is based on the AlbumArtist and Artist tags after all the aliasTags/tagValue e.t.c. processing.
Your Artist tag will be ok because you essentially swap the concatenated string of artists out for one with a multi-valued tag, it's your AlbumArtist tag that is still a string containing multiple artists e.g. 'Johnny Cash & June Carter', and so a search of the string 'Johnny Cash' would return the results I included in my previous post.

(22-11-2023 22:31)simbun Wrote:  

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>

I think it would be worth you trying this with a control point as it'll hopefully make it a lot clearer, and at that point you may think it's not something worth worrying about.
If you're always performing a full name search then the Album results (of the UPnP search) would most likely comprise the "correct" suite of albums anyway, it's more a problem when you're performing a partial search e.g. because you can't type the non-ascii characters.

(23-11-2023 12:12)paultaylor Wrote:  

(22-11-2023 22:31)simbun Wrote:  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.

Actually these questions are not really for personal use they are for my role as SongKong Music Tagger developer. this has features to support MinimServer, I am updating an old MinimServer tutorial I wrote, you can see the section on Track Artist here - https://community.jthink.net/t/tutorial-...ists/11924

Regarding the Artist setup (assuming they're all populated) I would have used:

aliasTags: Artist:Artists, Artists:Artist
itemTags: Artists
tagFormat: Artist.displayFormat={$Artists}

I think that will give you the correct indexing of Artist and will show the feat/& in the track listing.