Add support for multi-valued albumartist fields #185

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wojtek · 2024-08-24T23:12:49+02:00

wojtek commented

2024-08-24 23:12:49 +02:00

Certain albums credit multiple artists. These will have only one albumartist string despite being two artists. Beets now supports multi-valued fields but they are accessed via albumartists instead.

Certain albums credit multiple artists. These will have only one `albumartist` string despite being two artists. Beets now supports multi-valued fields but they are accessed via `albumartists` instead.

wojtek added this to the v1.0.0-alpha milestone 2024-08-24 23:12:49 +02:00

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wojtek added this to the Album tracking project 2024-08-29 17:22:18 +02:00

wojtek commented

2024-09-23 22:57:26 +02:00

Two options:

Folder/music player approach:
- display the combined albumartist name
- modify search/lookup to correctly search and filter
  - perhaps treat as cannot-have-an-mbid
  - albums fetched from constituent artists should file them correctly under the combined name
Deconstruct hierarchy between Artist/Album
- don't display combined albumartists in browse
- albums displayed in each artist instead

Preference: go with option (1). There is only one combined albumartist and there the second artist is not interesting to me. So far has happened for singles only anyway and most likely can still file it under a single more dominant album artist. Re-open if the need becomes bigger.

Two options: 1. Folder/music player approach: - display the combined albumartist name - modify search/lookup to correctly search and filter - perhaps treat as cannot-have-an-mbid - albums fetched from constituent artists should file them correctly under the combined name 2. Deconstruct hierarchy between Artist/Album - don't display combined albumartists in browse - albums displayed in each artist instead Preference: go with option (1). There is only one combined albumartist and there the second artist is not interesting to me. So far has happened for singles only anyway and most likely can still file it under a single more dominant album artist. Re-open if the need becomes bigger.

wojtek removed this from the Album tracking project 2024-09-23 22:57:30 +02:00

wojtek removed this from the v1.0.0-alpha milestone 2024-09-23 22:57:33 +02:00

wojtek closed this issue

2024-09-23 22:57:36 +02:00

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2024-09-23 22:59:09 +02:00

Provide a keyboard shortcut to pull all release groups of an artist #160

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