ArtistID3
An artist from ID3 tags.
Opensubsonic:
{
"id": "37ec820ca7193e17040c98f7da7c4b51",
"name": "2 Mello",
"coverArt": "ar-37ec820ca7193e17040c98f7da7c4b51_0",
"albumCount": 1,
"userRating": 5,
"artistImageUrl": "https://demo.org/image.jpg",
"starred": "2017-04-11T10:42:50.842Z",
"musicBrainzId": "189002e7-3285-4e2e-92a3-7f6c30d407a2",
"sortName": "Mello (2)",
"disambiguation": "French electronic duo",
"roles": [
"artist",
"albumartist",
"composer"
]
}{
"id": "37ec820ca7193e17040c98f7da7c4b51",
"name": "2 Mello",
"coverArt": "ar-37ec820ca7193e17040c98f7da7c4b51_0",
"albumCount": 1,
"userRating": 5,
"artistImageUrl": "https://demo.org/image.jpg",
"starred": "2017-04-11T10:42:50.842Z"
}| Field | Type | Req. | OpenS. | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
id | string | Yes | The id of the artist | |
name | string | Yes | The artist name. | |
coverArt | string | No | A covertArt id. | |
artistImageUrl | string | No | An url to an external image source. | |
albumCount | int | No | Artist album count. | |
starred | string | No | Date the artist was starred. [ISO 8601] | |
musicBrainzId | string | No | Yes | The artist MusicBrainzID. |
sortName | string | No | Yes | The artist sort name. |
disambiguation | string | No | Yes | A short human-readable comment, meant to be shown to users to distinguish between artists with the same name (e.g. French electronic duo). |
roles | Array of string | No | Yes | The list of all roles this artist has in the library. |
OpenSubsonic
New fields are added:
musicBrainzIdsortNamedisambiguationroles
Note: All OpenSubsonic added fields are optionals. But if a server support a field it must return it with an empty / default value when not present in it’s database so that clients knows what the server supports.
Note: Even if some added fields may looks duplicated, it’s important to still return the legacy data for compatibility reasons.