Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simoncn]

(21-11-2023 11:37)paultaylor Wrote:  Let me show you what I now have and am trying to achieve and you can comment if it is okay or not

aliasTags:Artists:-Artist
indexTags:Album_artists:Album Artists, All Artists:Artists
tagValue:Album_Artists.default={AlbumArtist}

I have done them two different ways so the value of AlbumArtist is nor modified and therefore does not cause a problem for identifying albums. Also I'm not clear what would be the difference if instead I did it this way instead.

indexTags:Album_artists:Album Artists, Artists
tagValue:Album_Artists.default={AlbumArtist}, Artists.default={Artist}

Both the above approaches do the same for album artists. Factoring this out of the comparison, we are left with:

option 1:
aliasTags: Artists:-Artist
indexTags: All Artists:Artists

option 2:
indexTags: Artists
tagValue: Artists.default={Artist}

Option 1 combines Artists and Artist file tags into internal MinimServer Artist tags. Option 2 combines Artists and Artist file tags into internal MinimServer Artists tags.

The internal MinimServer Artist tag is sent to the control point in upnp:artist and used for artist searching. The internal MinimServer Artists tag is not used for these purposes.