Artist Image Data has come along way

[ginjaninja 539]

Hi Dev Team and All,

 

MB3 is now acquiring images for the vast majority of artists in my collection. Images are more often square in my collection. Well done & thank you.

 

I dont know if it was coincidence or the result of a recent build, but I noticed a significant step change in artist image data success/quality (50% to 95%) after deleting MB3 cache/ibn/data  (everything) and allowing a complete rebuild.

 

If MB3 were to split artists on 'separators', i believe it would get to 99%.

 

[rickster53 27]

I agree with you regarding significant improvements over time with artist image success/quality.  MB3 does support artist separators.  If I'm not mistaken, valid separators include ";", "/" and "feat." where "feat." covers cases that say "artist A feat. artist B".  The dev team can chime in to confirm I got this correct and elaborate if other separators are supported... I have chosen to use ";" and works perfectly.

[Luke 37250]

thanks to both of you.

 

and also featuring we split on.

[ginjaninja 539]

Hi Luke,

do you think MB3 may ever make use of that artist 'whitelist' extracted from the musicbrainz database,  to aggressively split on more separators?

[Luke 37250]

Sure but there are bigger issues competing for my attention right now.