Searching for an artist

[simoncn]

(07-01-2015 15:51)mightyoakbob Wrote:  Thanks for your help.

To be honest I think the question assumes knowledge I don't have. UPnP search?

Within Kinsky I can select artists or all artists and then type the name in the box at the top.
I was amazed the first time I tried all artists that it didn't find all the artists I also had to search artist, if that makes sense.

I'm sure other people will have a good reason for that separation but for my simple needs that subtlety escapes me and i'd like 'all' to mean all.

Thanks again.

If you are doing this from Kinsky, this is a local search that searches only what is currently displayed by Kinsky. A UPnP Search is sent by the control point to the server and searches the complete library. For this, you would need to use Kazoo instead of Kinsky.

The All Artists index excludes AlbumArtist values and this is why Kinsky isn't finding some of your artists. The Artist index does include AlbumArtist values and this why you are finding the "missing" artists there.

To make your AlbumArtist values show up in the All Artists index (and be found by a Kinsky local search of the All Artists index), you have two options:

1) Add Artist tags for all your AlbumArtist values that don't currently have Artist tags

2) Use the MinimServer tagValue "default" option to make MinimServer create Artist values from your AlbumArtist tags if these Artist values aren't already tagged. In the tagValue property, you would enter:

Artist.default={AlbumArtist}

and then restart MinimServer.