feature request : handling instruments and instrumentists

[eseb63]

Hello,

I am a bit surprised not finding an Instrument tag within the "special" tags handled by minimserver.

Works are written for instruments, artists plays an (or several) instrument(s), so the instrument has a great place in classical music tagging (and others).

As minimserver is very flexible, it's easy to add an INSTRUMENT tag in indextags : it allows browsing different ways :
- which albums with this instrument ?
- which works with this instrument ?
- which genres with this instrument ?
- which composers with this instrument ?

But when browsing by artists, i don't have the expected result : i would expect a list of artists playing this instrument (and only them) but i get all artists involved in an album having track(s) with this instrument tag.

If i choose the piano, i get the pianists, but also conductors (for the piano concertos), other soloists as violinists or cellists (for piano chamber music) ...

I guess the generic approach can't handle that : it would need special coding to handle the many to many relationship between instruments, artists and tracks.

In Musichi, this relation is handled at track level with an artist tag on this form "ArtistName[Instrument_name]".

Might handling this kind of artist tag be an enhancement in a next version ?

Thanks in advance for the reply