visproduction 125 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Version 4.9.0.16 beta Library view music videos - Artist links are no longer available and the top menu nav tabs no longer shows Artists. Is this a planned change? The media title pulls the file name, which does usually have the artist's name. But, previously there was an artist link under the song title. I took off the artist's name from the title, so that it was not shown twice. Updating the server with no artist link means the user cannot see who the artist is. In order to change it back, I would need to turn on File name, which is not the default, so new users would not see this. Since default metadata cannot be changed for all new users, turning on File Name is not a good fix. Or I could refresh the metadata to bring the full file names back in to the song title. Dropping the Artist link means the full list of Artists is also no longer available from any link and it is very difficult to even get to the Artist page anymore. You have to either search for the artist or click the Artist's name link on a media page. This seems not very user friendly? What does everyone think? Should the Artist link on the media card and the All artists nav tab come back for Music Video Library? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37250 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 HI, we have never extracted this information from the file name. The artist either needs to be tagged in embedded metadata within the file, or you need to manually specify in the metadata editor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visproduction 125 Posted May 6 Author Share Posted May 6 (edited) The Artist is tagged in the Metadata. The artist link no longer shows up inside the Music Video library listings. The artist link does work on the Latest Music Videos on the home page. Edited May 6 by visproduction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8356 Posted May 6 Share Posted May 6 There is a legacy Collapse variable at play here also but 4.7 did the same thing. As you cannot compare Videos to Folder view. Items vs Folders Changing the Collapse variable and there is a slight difference but the view itself is the limiting factor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visproduction 125 Posted May 7 Author Share Posted May 7 Maybe some code udpate in modules/cardbuilder/cardbuilder.js This choice looks like it may be available for Videos view but is left out for Folders view? item.ArtistItems[0].Name Just a guess after a quick look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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