Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(21-11-2023 12:44)paultaylor Wrote:  

(21-11-2023 12:12)simbun Wrote:  When I tried it, not only did I want to see multiple album artists in an index, but I also wanted to see them when displaying albums (hence the use of .displayFormat)

Okay, that is not necessary for me because the two fields contain

Album Artists:
Johnny Cash
June Carter

Album Artist:
Johnny Cash & June Carter

I was close to suggesting that you simply concatenate the artists together, but it's something I discounted previously and I don't like to suggest solutions that I'm not happy with myself.

(21-11-2023 12:44)paultaylor Wrote:  

(21-11-2023 12:12)simbun Wrote:  and to appear in UPnP searches as AlbumArtists (all of which isn't possible).

Okay im using Kinsky because testing on PC and Kazoo works ureliably for me and this doesnt seem to have search, do you of a control point on the PC that supports search so I can try this out.

As @simoncn stated a UPnP search will match the concatenated albumartist string as well as other matches, so your 'Johnny Cash' result could look something like:

Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash & ...
Johnny Cash & June Carter
... & Johnny Cash

The problem being that you can't retrieve all his albums (or the album you're looking for unless you know the other albumartist), which may or may not be a deal-breaker as you can through the Album_Artists index.