Server - Improve disambiguation for manual identify results on music artists

[ginjaninja 537]

eg

 

http://musicbrainz01.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/ws/2/artist/?query="ash"&dismax=true

 

<metadata xmlns="http://musicbrainz.org/ns/mmd-2.0#" xmlns:ext="http://musicbrainz.org/ns/ext#-2.0" created="2018-09-12T20:20:23.037Z">
<artist-list count="2978" offset="0">
<artist id="343ab418-6b4b-4a36-89b2-36b808206b68" type="Person" ext:score="100">
<name>Ash</name>
<sort-name>Ash</sort-name>
<gender>male</gender>
<country>PL</country>
<area id="dd7f80c8-f017-3d01-8608-2a8c9c32b954">
<name>Poland</name>
<sort-name>Poland</sort-name>
</area>
<begin-area id="531adbe4-7606-4a48-bc9a-81116d9ffcd5">
<name>Konin</name>
<sort-name>Konin</sort-name>
</begin-area>
<disambiguation>Polish hip hop</disambiguation>
<life-span>
<begin>1978</begin>
<ended>false</ended>
</life-span>
</artist>
<artist id="ba4c1645-af25-4e9c-91c5-8e659db999ed" type="Group" ext:score="100">
<name>A.S.H.</name>
<sort-name>A.S.H.</sort-name>
<country>JP</country>
<area id="2db42837-c832-3c27-b4a3-08198f75693c">
<name>Japan</name>
<sort-name>Japan</sort-name>
</area>
<disambiguation>Japanese soundtrack live arranger?</disambiguation>
<life-span>
<ended>false</ended>
</life-span>
</artist>
<artist id="f3a54ed7-1944-44c1-b374-498f24a10cdc" ext:score="100">
<name>Ash</name>
<sort-name>Ash</sort-name>
<disambiguation>
performs on "Sucker for Love Radio Interlude" by The Diplomats
</disambiguation>
<life-span>
<ended>false</ended>
</life-span>
</artist>
<artist id="4ac89391-b9e0-4343-900d-5ea1df047365" type="Group" ext:score="100">
<name>Ash</name>
<sort-name>Ash</sort-name>
<country>US</country>
<area id="489ce91b-6658-3307-9877-795b68554c98">
<name>United States</name>
<sort-name>United States</sort-name>
</area>
<disambiguation>USA Black Metal Band</disambiguation>
<life-span>
<begin>2004</begin>
<ended>false</ended>
</life-span>
</artist>

Showing mbz disambiguation value would greatly help identification along with the artist image of course. (I notice tv identify results now have images which is a big step forward)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Luke 37118]

Interesting, sort of like a description for each result.

[Luke 37118]

Do albums have this too?

[ginjaninja 537]

http://musicbrainz01.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/ws/2/release/?query=%22101%22%20AND%20artist:%22%22

 

The artist has a disambiguation tag when searching for album but not the album itself.

 

Oddly as an aside,

the standard gui for identification on albums doesnt expose an artist field, so albums are always searched against blank artists by default..unnecessarily fragile? 

 

edit - so only certain artists have a disambiguation tag it seems, but still if its there it could be useful..

Edited September 14, 2018 by ginjaninja

[trott90 20]

I will recommend use beets to tag the music before imported to emby library

[Luke 37118]

Ok yes i think the disambiguation would be nice to add.

 

And yes there is no artist name although you can enter an artist mbz id.

[ginjaninja 537]

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Disambiguation_Comment

 

albums do have disambiguation

http://musicbrainz01.eastus2.cloudapp.azure.com:8080/ws/2/release/?query=weezer

Edited May 4, 2019 by ginjaninja

[Luke 37118]

Yea i think it's a good idea, but it would also require re-designing the identify layout to be able to display this.