ArtistID3.md

title	ArtistID3
linkTitle	ArtistID3 [OS]
opensubsonic	Change
description	An artist from ID3 tags.

{{< tabpane persist=false >}} {{< tab header="Example:" disabled=true />}} {{< tab header="OpenSubsonic" lang="json">}} { "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" ] } {{< /tab >}} {{< tab header="Subsonic" lang="json" >}} { "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" } {{< /tab >}} {{< /tabpane >}}

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.
userRating	int	No	Yes	The user rating of the artist. [1-5]

{{< alert color="warning" title="OpenSubsonic" >}} New fields are added:

• musicBrainzId
• sortName
• roles
• userRating

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. {{< /alert >}}