Show "appears on" albums in the artist page

[dylanagreen]

This is a request for a "quality of life" feature. When viewing compilation albums, or albums with artists whose name does not match the album artist, supersonic recognizes song artists if there's at least one album by that artist (and thus an artist page for that artist exists in the database) and allows you to click through to that artists page. It would be useful if you could go the other way, i.e. split the discography page into two sections: albums (containing what's there now) and then a section for "appears on" with albums where that artist contributed a track even if the album artist is not the same as that artist. This would emulate, for example, spotify and apple music which have the same delineation.

[dweymouth]

Hopefully in the future this will become possible with more API changes in OpenSubsonic, but as of now, servers do not report these "appears on" albums to clients so this is not yet possible

[dylanagreen]

Probably worthwhile to wait for an open subsonic update to do this easily, but is it not possible to emulate this feature entirely in client? To some extent the artist pages are recognizing "featured on" albums, for example in this screenshot the client has recognize the version of West End Girls on the compilation album Isles of Wonder as a "top track" for the Pet Shop Boys, even though the album itself is not attributed to them:

My thinking was if this is already recognizing features, it would just be a gui modification to the album screen to include these "featured on" albums.

[dweymouth]

This is still from the server. The top tracks is directly from the getTopSongs API. The albums on the artist page are directly from the getArtist API call which does not include "featured on" albums, at least as implemented by the major servers. Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this right now.

Well I suppose at least some of the "appears on" albums could come from searching the tracks returned by getTopSongs for albums not attributed to the artist directly, though this wouldn't be reliable as there is no guarantee that a track from each "featured on" album is present in this list, and some servers don't implement gettTopSongs at all