Edit artist image and info (and album/genre info)
Cambionn
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I remember in the past when I just started using Astiga, each artist page would grab information from Last.FM. Mainly images and artist info. However, by now it only shows the name, first album cover, and genre. I don't know why this got removed, but I'd love it back. Or even better, be able to set my own artist image and text to prevent the issue where multiple artists with the same name would get mixed up.
More secondary but likely not that difficult after adding it for artists, adding information on genre and album pages about that specific entry would be nice too.
Similarly, when browsing on phone I tend to use folder structure (as those are all /genre/artist/albums/tracks). I notice that folders with a track in them get the image of the first track it buffers. But folders without tracks are all stuck without any image showing an image of a music note. A few folders with tracks also seem to refuse to show the album art.
I tried putting an artist image in the artist folder with the name "folder.jpg" although I'm not sure if that's supposed to change anything but images for audio files. But sadly this doesn't seem to work anywhere in the aforementioned places I want to alter.
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There's a possibility this relates to https://community.asti.ga/discussion/comment/1059#Comment_1059 - I'll take a look at it when I see to that.
It's been removed long ago (I guess last I'm sure about seeing it was 2019), so I always guessed Koen removed it deliberately as if it's a bug, it would be noticed. I haven't noticed any announcement about it tho, so I have no clue if it's true and if so, what the reason was. Perhaps that some artists would get text like "X can refer to 4 artists. 1)... 2)... 3)... 4)...".
Or maybe it got too complex with new last.fm features like pro users choosing their own artist image (trough that particular example is newer).
But perhaps it is just a long-standing bug, I couldn't know.
Being able to set your own image and text would resolve any complexities with last.fm and when artist share names while giving total freedom. Hence that idea coming in.
Ignoring the fact this is lazily done in MS Paint, my wish for this request and https://community.asti.ga/discussion/402/list-the-number-of-tracks-and-albums-on-artist-and-genre-pages#latest combined is to be able to go from the right (current) an album and artist view that's something like the left (MS paint edit taken some stuff from Google Music, some Last.FM, and some Astiga. But it's just a lazy edit to give an idea).
Yeah, that's nice!