Music Video library - Artist link no longer appears under song name

[visproduction 315]

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?

[Luke 42080]

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.

[visproduction 315]

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, 2024 by visproduction

[Happy2Play 9782]

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

 

[visproduction 315]

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.