Emby libraries > Music - Album Artists

[James 31]

When selecting Emby libraries > Music - Album Artists and choosing an album artist which will result in an album list which includes both album for the selected artist + what appears to be any albums in which the artist is a composer

So artist A will show albums of artist A plus albums of artist B where the artist was a composer

Hopefully this is in error and not as intended

Thanks,
James

[Luke 37057]

Hi there, how does the web app compare?

[James 31]

both the web app and android tv emby app correctly show only the albums from the selected album artist

[TeamB 2352]

@Luke

This might explain the difference:

EmbyCon

http://localhost:8096
/emby/Users/3138bed521e5465b9be26d2c63be94af/items?
ArtistIds=22506&
IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&
Recursive=true

Web Client

http://localhost:8096
/emby/Users/3138bed521e5465b9be26d2c63be94af/Items?
IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&
Recursive=true&
AlbumArtistIds=22506

So the difference is filtering on ArtistIds vs AlbumArtistIds

Which one is correct, I guess the web client, but why the difference?

 

[James 31]

if i had to guess artist=album artist+artist+composer whereas albumartist=albumartsist.

As the name of library is album artist i would say album artist is correct. in the emby android tv client there are multiple views. album artist, artist, genre etc 

[TeamB 2352]

3 hours ago, James said:

if i had to guess artist=album artist+artist+composer whereas albumartist=albumartsist.

As the name of library is album artist i would say album artist is correct. in the emby android tv client there are multiple views. album artist, artist, genre etc 

Yeah agree, i am reasonably sure i got this query from the web client when i added it to embycon ages ago so perhaps something changed or i used the wrong filter field, i can update embycon, just wanted to make sure AlbumArtistIds is the correct one to use.

[Luke 37057]

On 6/11/2022 at 10:35 PM, TeamB said:

@Luke

This might explain the difference:

EmbyCon

http://localhost:8096
/emby/Users/3138bed521e5465b9be26d2c63be94af/items?
ArtistIds=22506&
IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&
Recursive=true

Web Client

http://localhost:8096
/emby/Users/3138bed521e5465b9be26d2c63be94af/Items?
IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&
Recursive=true&
AlbumArtistIds=22506

So the difference is filtering on ArtistIds vs AlbumArtistIds

Which one is correct, I guess the web client, but why the difference?

 

The first one returns all albums in which the given artist may appear on any track. The second one returns only albums in which they are listed as an album artist.

So a good example to see the difference is a movie soundtrack, where each track may have different artists listed, but the albumartist is Various Artists.