Expected behavior for Album and/or Song with multiple artists?

[mckennajones]

Describe the bug

Not necessarily a bug, but I'm opening this to start a discussion about the behavior when an Album or Song has multiple artists listed.

For example, here is what I see when the application tracks my listening to this album, which has two artists listed for the Album itself and each track:

As you can see only the first Artist listed is tracked.

Expected behavior

At the song/album level I would expect that all of the listed arists are shown in your_spotify.

Potential behaviors at the artist level:

• The combination of the two (or more) artists is tracked as a single artist as far as your_spotify is concerned.
• The artists are tracked as separate artists in your_spotify. For example, if I went to the top artists page in your_spotify, I would see both Vieux Farka Touré and Khraungbin listed.
• Only the first artist is tracked (current behavior).

[Yooooomi]

Hello, thanks a lot for your feedback.

The main limitation here is performance. The current behavior is not exactly the third. Statistics are computed based on the first artist if there is more than 1 on the album. However, every artist of an album is saved in the database, not having them displayed is a bit weird, must either be:

• Spotify sending only one
• the second artist was added to the album after it was first saved

For the moment, I don't plan to change the way statistics are computed:

• Combining the two artists into one would just lose people into thinking the album was not saved
• The most listened artists are computed based on the songs listened and not the album so it would not make a difference. However, I don't want to pollute the top artist chart by counting each artist in a song made by several.

[PCJones]

So for songs also only the first artist is counted? Would it be possible to add a setting to count the first 2 or 3 artists for a song? One of my most listened artists isn't even showing up in my statistics because he is almost always listed as second. I'd much rather take a performance hit than having incorrect/misleading statistics.