Groups, group members, and aliases
I got a bit inspired from some of my favourite music sites like Discogs and Whosampled. I want to start with groups. I know you can add them in the ‘similar artist’ section, but what I think looks good is place it under the group-name.
Groups: My first idea was to be able to add members, with their role in the group (singer, rapper, instrument, dj, beatmaker, etc.) and maybe even year. But it should be uniform to the “in groups” style, I think that’s better.
If the artist (or their alias) appears in your database the name should be clickable and linking to said page. If some of the artists are not in your database it still should be in the group member list, but not clickable.
Group members: With group members you could do it like this. Right under their name you could place a section with ‘in goups’, and then showing the groups said artist is in. If it’s in your database it’s clickable, otherwise it’s not.
Aliases: This one is optional, but I refer to this part later in my feedback. Some artist have multiple aliases. What I do right know is stating the alias as ‘artist on the track’, but the main-name as ‘artist album’ to group them together.
Which works fine but technically you could also add the aliases in the description, but I would like to see the following option. A place where you can tell Plex which aliases an artist have, it doesn’t have to be displayed, but would be useful for grouping things automatically together
Record labels: The music I listen to sometimes has albums or mixtapes specifically themed after a record label. This is the most close to ‘Various Artist’, but I like to have them on an artist-page of the record label.
So having an option to fill in which artists are signed (just like the group, group member options) would be perfect. Problem you get here is that some labels have signed a lot of artists.
Lets say that a record label has more than 10 artist, Plex could show the first ten, and place on the eleventh spot three dots. If you click these dots you get an overview with al the artists signed on that record label.
