Artists art

[littlebitofcode]

Hi, is there a way to more then one artist art per album?
I dont think I have an album that have only one artist. When I put 'artist' image in the album folder, the client (Symfonium) assigns the art to every artist found on the release be it 'performer', 'conductor' or 'albumartist' .

Looking trough API looks like every artist has an 'id' and 'coverArt' assigned:

{
  "albumCount": 1,
  "coverArt": "ar-450",
  "id": "ar-450",
  "musicBrainzId": "66409de3-747d-4f4d-acac-7f6eb01646ee",
  "name": "María Cristina Kiehr",
  "sortName": "Kiehr, María Cristina",
  "roles": [
    "performer",
    "albumartist"
  ]
}

I can of course manually assign correct images in Symfonium but is is quite laborious.
Cheers

[epoupon]

Hello! Are you using v3.46.1? Only album artists should get artist images.
For now, LMS exposes a coverArt field for each artist, but this does not mean an actual image will be provided. The getCoverArt endpoint will return 404 if the image is not found.
Note it is planned to only expose coverArt when an artist image is actually available.

[littlebitofcode]

Yes I am using the latest version.
The thing is album artist tag in classical music is formated like this: 'Johann Sebastian Bach; Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe'
So it has both composer and multiple performing artists.
Thanks

[epoupon]

Are you tagging using picard? Bach should be only credited as composer?

[littlebitofcode]

Yes, I am using Picard.
Every release is tagged this way.
That's the official guideline: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Classical/Release_Artist
For example: https://musicbrainz.org/release/7daad108-45c5-49d2-b35d-94010d1c5853

Yeah, classical music is pain in the neck. :-)

[epoupon]

Ouch, not sure what we can do to fix this.
Maybe we can just skip artist images for all albums that have multiple release artists? After all, we don't really know to which artist we can assign the artist.jpg file...
Maybe we can also try searching for a file with the artist's name; do you know how other readers handle this?

[littlebitofcode]

Yeah, I don't know either, if one can only assign one 'artist.jpg' file.
Interestingly in Symfonium when choosing artist image from local store it saving it using artist id: if artist id is "ar-450" it will store it as 'ar-450-xxxx.jpg.
So I was hoping if I put '"ar-450.jpg" in album folder it would pick it up but alas no luck.
It is not a big deal as I can assign images from local storage to every artist in Symfonium.
But one, its time consuming, two, only available on one device and three, Symfonium doesn't do backups of artist images.

Searching by name would be cool, something like 'Johann Sebastian Bach.jpg' in folder Artists.
Cheers

[epoupon]

See #406

[littlebitofcode]

The artist art is working like a charm. Thank you very much.

[epoupon]

Thanks!