Tagging Artists but NOT Albums

[AndersVinberg]

Funny, I just wrote about this again.

I knew that tags “propagate” from artist to album, which I used to allow searching for albums based on artist nationality (“Italian jazz”).

But I recently found a few cases where this got messed up because of “reverse propagation”: I found Bill Evans show up in my Nordic Jazz list, because I had a Swedish artist correctly tagged based on nationality, and she did an album with Bill Evans and that album got correctly tagged Nordic, butthen that flowed to Bill Evans and to all his albums, and then it might flow to the musicians he played with, etc.

This is tricky. The flow of attributed is valuable. But hard to manage.

@Danny has talked about upcoming changes in the database structure to allow querying for artist nationality in albums, without having to hack about with tags.

Here is my recent note:

Tag propagation

@brian We have discussed tag propagation before. I thought I understood the logic, but it seems as if you have changed it. For example: since it isn’t possible to focus on albums based on artist nationality (@Danny has talked about this coming), I do a trick using tags. In the artist browser I periodically focus on artists based on nationality, and tag them Jazz Nordic and Jazz Italian. (Yes, this means Verdi gets tagged as a jazz artist, I have to do some cleanup.) Now I can focus on these t…