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 arist
`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 have 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.

OpenSubsonic server support

Server	Min vers.	Comment

Last modified October 8, 2023: Expose many new fields to clients (#51) (5f8b101)