ArtistID3

An artist from ID3 tags.

Opensubsonic:

Change

{
  "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)",
  "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.
`roles`	Array of `string`	No	Yes	The list of all roles this artist has in the library.

OpenSubsonic

New fields are added:

musicBrainzId
sortName
roles

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.

Last modified March 23, 2025: Fix `artist` inconsistency (#135) (e3c1be4)