Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[simbun]

(23-11-2023 14:57)paultaylor Wrote:  

(23-11-2023 14:31)simbun Wrote:  Yes the problem is that you're storing multiple artists in the AlbumArtist field that's causing multiple matches to be returned. If anyone else used this approach they would also have the search issue.

No, I am storing a single artist field in the AlbumArtist field e.g 'Johny Cash & June Carter' and multiple artists in the AlbumArtists field e.g 'Johnny Cash' 'June Carter'

Or do you mean I am storing multiple artists in the AlbumArtist field as in the string 'Johny Cash & June Carter' represents two artists, well yes I am doing that because the album was attributed to two artists, if you think that is wrong what are you doing ?

Yes I mean you are storing them together as a single string. Earlier I used the phrase 'concatenate the artists together' which you didn't seem to like so I've been avoiding it ever since :-)

I don't think you're wrong as there is no perfect way to do it.

The drawback of concatenating them is:

• The subsequent artists will always be buried in the AlbumArtist index under the first Album Artists name (unless you use another multivalue tag and index it as you're doing)
• UPnP search results will be a little messy
  

On the few albums I have this problem with the secondary albumartist is someone I'd never search for, so I simply attributed it to the "main" artist and used another tag to hold the secondary, then used AlbumArtist.displayFormat to bring them in on the album display, but given what you're doing I know that's not an option.