Support for composer tag

[s-fleck]

While composer (and possibly performer) tags are really obscure in most genres of music, they are pretty essential to keep a classical music collection organized IMHO. Support for these is lackluster, but as far as i could find the opensubsonic API spec includes it (see links below)

https://opensubsonic.netlify.app/docs/responses/child/
https://opensubsonic.netlify.app/docs/responses/artistid3/

I've been trying to get around this using the Album Artist and Artist tags, but it's getting pretty confusing and doesn't work all that well :(. I'm also not sure how many server support that tag, probably not yet a lot, but it has to start somewhere (i also submitted a similar feature request to my favourite airsonic server gonic)

[alessandrococco]

I'm also not sure how many server support that tag

LMS supports composer and performer tags:

(I use LMS via Supersonic)

[s-fleck]

Oh so you are saying supersonic already supports the tag (also for searching?). in that case i can close that issue again i guess.

[dweymouth]

Supersonic doesn't support the composer tag yet - and I'm not sure the OpenSubsonic APIs are rich enough yet to do anything but add it as a tracklist column. @alessandrococco if you search for a composer who is not tagged as [Album]Artist in any tracks but only composer, does it show up as an "Artist" in Supersonic? If so, maybe I can work with the APIs as they are; if not then there's nothing I can do right now other than make Composer a non-hyperlink tracklist column

[alessandrococco]

The getArtists response contains info about roles:

(ignore the wrong album count, it's a LMS bug - fixed but unreleased)

if you search for a composer who is not tagged as [Album]Artist in any tracks but only composer, does it show up as an "Artist" in Supersonic?

Yes! I added a composer to an album () and it appears in the artists view:

but it does not appear in the album view (I added PIPPO as a composer for all tracks in this album):

[dweymouth]

@alessandrococco what does the "artist" page for the PIPPO "artist" look like in this case? I see that Supersonic shows it as "11 albums" - I wonder if LMS is reporting each track as an album for composers?

[alessandrococco]

@alessandrococco what does the "artist" page for the PIPPO "artist" look like in this case?

Like a normal artist page:

I see that Supersonic shows it as "11 albums" - I wonder if LMS is reporting each track as an album for composers?

It was a LMS bug, now it has been fixed

[dweymouth]

@alessandrococco if you get a chance, would you be able to test one of the Github Actions builds from the composer PR https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic/actions (or built from source on the feature/composer branch)? LMS is the only server that supports composer currently and I don't have an LMS instance at the moment. But as long as LMS follows the OpenSubsonic spec, the implementation should work...

[dweymouth]

Tested and working against the LMS demo server, merged for next release!

[s-fleck]

many thanks for the quick implementation!

[alessandrococco]

@alessandrococco if you get a chance, would you be able to test one of the Github Actions builds from the composer PR https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic/actions (or built from source on the feature/composer branch)?

Sorry, I was busy with my family over the weekend 😅

Tested and working against the LMS demo server, merged for next release!

Great, thanks!