Multiple Artists on an album get added as a single “composite” instead of individually

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I just imported over 250 old Jazz records today and it created all kinds of “composite artists” named e.g. “John Coltrane; Eric Dolphy”, whose albums don’t show up when browsing Johm Coltrane or Eric Dolphy.

Is there a way to split these after the fact? If not, that would be a feature request :grimacing:

Here are some examples of the problem:

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then, if I want to browse albums by Chet Baker, I get them spread over all these “composite artists”… since there are sometimes many artist names on Jazz records, this list can get so long it doesn’t fit the screen

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Follow-up: is it not possible to search for multiple artists? Can one *not* search for terms like “chet AND lackerschmid” ?

If one can’t, that would severely limit the usefulness of ‘discrete’ artists over ‘composite’ ones when searching :grimacing:

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this is indeed not possible. You could group by artist, then open Chet Baker folder, then search for Lackerschmid. That will give you all Chat Baker albums, since you’re in “his folder” that include “Lackerschmid” somewhere in the album.

Workaround for a good feature request.

How did you import them? If you used the Cloud and imported a CSV, you might want to start over. The CSV import has a tool where you can tell it what the field delimiter is which basically tells the import that “if I see a ; I should create another entry inside that field when importing”

I think that’s where it’s gone wrong if you did an import from CSV on Cloud? Let me know!

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Thanks — I imported manually, mostly by searching by catalog number. This worked exceptionally well and I was surprised how quickly I was able to add the records, which were mostly 60s-70s-80s originals. Super cool :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

I’ve now started to manually split the composite artists into individual ones… quite a bit of manual work, but doable (around 30 instances).

As for a future feature - maybe a function analogous to the “Merge Mode” but for splitting would work well (with optional choice of delimiter character).

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Ah so the comma separated artists came from Catalog number searches?

Would you have one for me?
(sounds like something we can fix easily during the Add process. No split button needed)

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Even better :grinning_face:

gladly — here are some examples:

  • SMP 2102 (Ballads for Two)
  • 0081.103 (The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever)
  • GW-3004 (Giants of Jazz)
  • 30 JA 5184 (Two Giants Together)
  • 811 334-1 (Passion, Grace & Fire)

One example with Barcode: 677517300710 (Star Stuff, by The Mattson 2 & Chaz Bundick)

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Thank you. We will get on that to see if we can make the Add Album screen be smart about that. I’ve put it on our to-do list.

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That would be a great feature, I’ve had many albums import this way that I’ve had to split the artists.

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