Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(24-11-2023 13:31)paultaylor Wrote:  

(24-11-2023 11:08)simbun Wrote:  Multiple track artists are fine as the standard Artist tag is multi-value so that doesn't cause a problem.

I take it you simply mean by this that MinimServer has no restrictions on storing multiple values in an Artist tag, so we an store separate multiple values in the Artist tag (though in my case they are stored in Artists tag and then aliased to the Artist tag) ?

I was actually thinking of the tagging standards themselves (FLAC Artist/ID3 TPE1 e.t.c.), but yes they're obviously dependent upon MinimServer handling them.

(24-11-2023 13:31)paultaylor Wrote:  

(24-11-2023 11:08)simbun Wrote:  I'm wondering whether you're splitting groups like 'Diana Ross & The Supremes' or 'Bob Marley & The Wailers' as I clearly have a lot more of those, but they're groups in their own right, so aren't independent artists - for these projects.

No, I split them according to how they are stored in MusicBrainz as album artist credits, so here we see Bob Marley & The Wailers is a single credit. Whereas Barcelona by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé is clearly two separate artists and stored in MusicBrainz as two artist credits.

That makes sense, then we're using the same data.