Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(23-11-2023 14:14)paultaylor Wrote:  

(23-11-2023 13:17)simbun Wrote:  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.

So the problem field is the standard field that I haven't changed?
I thought your issue was with my configuration but if its just the standard configuration then this is a problem for everyone, confused.

Yes the problem is that you're storing multiple artists in the AlbumArtist field that's causing multiple matches to be returned. If anyone else used this approach they would also have the search issue.

(23-11-2023 14:14)paultaylor Wrote:  

(23-11-2023 13:17)simbun Wrote:  i
I think it would be worth you trying this with a control point

Yes, Ive tried Lumin now but cannot find upnp search function !

I find Lumin really convoluted. You have to go into settings, then below your MinimServer library click on Options and enable UPnP Search.
It doesn't group the results it just orders them by albums then artists then tracks as far as I can tell, all a little messy. It's not the best app to try this with.

(23-11-2023 14:14)paultaylor Wrote:  

(23-11-2023 13:17)simbun Wrote:  i
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.

Thanks, but I cannot work out the effect of that aliasTags setting

The aliasTag setting just swaps the names of the two tags, so it retains your 'Artist A feat. Artist B' (now called Artists) so that it can be used in the track listing.

Maybe this would be clearer:

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