Ignore releases by special purpose artists

[LeoVerto]

Musicbrainz uses a number of special purpose artists, the most common one being Various Artists.

If a user has a single release tagged to, say "Various Artists", nusic will display hundreds of mostly unrelated new releases. I know it's possible to ignore all releases by that artist but it could be quite confusing for new users.

Lastly, thanks for using MB data in such a great way and publishing your app on F-Droid! :smiley:

[schnatterer]

@LeoVerto Thanks for your constructive feedback! Actually, several users got confused by this behavior already. That's why I included the "Hide all releases" feature you referred (BTW it can activated by long tabbing a release). I do like your idea of simplifying this process for new users, and the link to the special purpose artists is a good default list to start with. I'll just have to figure out how to combine the approaches of "hidden" artists and ignored artists by keeping it as simple as possible.

[robin-paulson]

"Various Artists", nusic will display hundreds of mostly unrelated new releases

Yes, I got this behaviour too this week. Frustrating. How likely are you to fix it? Thanks