How to handle an artist with multiple names?

[alessandrococco]

Hello again,

I have some albums by Rhapsody and some albums by Rhapsody of Fire and they're the same band: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4e0dffde-ad2d-45b7-9c75-d57ce55de061

Now all my albums are tagged with "Rhapsody of Fire" as artist and album artist so lms displays "Rhapsody of Fire" as artist and it groups all albums under the "Rhapsody of Fire" name. I also set the same MB artist id / MB album artist id to all tracks.

I'd like to keep both Rhapsody and Rhapsody of Fire as artists in my library. Obviously I want to indifferently click on "Rhapsody" and "Rhapsody of Fire" to view all albums combined.

Something like this:

The artist is Swallow the Sun but disc 2 is by Trio N O X.

I tried to play with artists/albumartists but I'm not able to get what I want. I think the issue here is that Swallow the Sun and Trio N O X have different MB artist IDs while Rhapsody and Rhapsody of Fire share the same MB artist id.

Is lms able to handle this case? Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you :-)

[epoupon]

Hello! Ok I understand this use case but lms is not able to handle it now, it would require some significant changes.

[alessandrococco]

Hello! Ok I understand this use case but lms is not able to handle it now, it would require some significant changes.

No problem, it's just a nitpick on my part 😄

[epoupon]

Will keep it in mind, but don't expect a change soon!