An artist page brings together a biography, discography and albums they contributed to when credits exist. From an album or track, follow an artist, country, genre or label to keep exploring.
Follow a contribution
Credits describe roles actually present in the catalogue. A guest guitarist is not necessarily a band member. Relations represents collaborations and can lead to an artist or album. Rotate the graph to explore neighbours; a link is not proof of membership.
An empty discography may reflect missing credits, external metadata or available albums. Enrichment never replaces local file information.
Read a biography
Read more opens the available long text, with a contents list for articles with several sections. The bottom arrow returns to the top. The download icon beside the title exports the retained text with its source, revision and licence.
The heart immediately to the left of Download saves the complete biography as a private copy for the active account. Find it in Encyclopedia → Saved articles, selecting the same FR/EN edition. An already retained revision is marked and cannot be saved twice; a newer revision can replace it. Without a writable account the action is disabled. Saved biographies use the same account backup as other saved articles.
Wikipedia articles are extracts: tables, images and references may be omitted. Follow the original link for the complete page. Retrieved articles are cached for reading; a changed revision may require an update.
Resources in the External links section retain their clickable addresses, including saved copies and downloaded text. For an older saved copy without links, refresh the article and save it again.
Retrieve images and biographies
After scanning folders, run enrichment to retrieve available covers, portraits, banners, logos, backgrounds and biographies.
- Open Settings → External sources. Starting a task requires an administrator account for the library concerned; the local engine has its own session.
- For banners and backgrounds, enter your Fanart.tv key and click Save shared keys. MusicBrainz, Cover Art Archive, Wikipedia, Wikidata and the supported Discogs passes need no key in this interface. AcoustID concerns identification rather than banners.
- Under Enrich the library, choose Local, Server or both when those libraries are available and administrable.
- Select Covers, Biographies and, with its key configured, Fanart.tv · banners and backgrounds. Discogs · label biographies completes labels; Lyrics can join the same batch.
- Click Start enrichment, follow the displayed task and wait for its result. MusicBrainz first identifies artists and albums; selected providers then fill in their information.
- Synchronize that source’s catalogue if needed, then reopen an artist or album page to see retrieved information.
Retrieval needs an Internet connection. Uncertain matches can be reviewed in Phémios under MusicBrainz matches above. No provider guarantees an image for every artist or album: a completed task can leave artwork missing. Phémios subsequently reuses cached images; opening a page does not restart all enrichment.
Stop enrichment cancels active enrichment tasks for the relevant sources; it is disabled while idle. Previously saved results remain available. Wait for cancellation confirmation before launching again.
Review a MusicBrainz match
In Settings → External sources → MusicBrainz matches, an administrator can review proposals stored by enrichment. Local and server libraries each have their own list. Opening this list does not contact MusicBrainz.
- Compare the catalogue name with the proposed type, region, country, dates and disambiguation when available. A search score is not a certainty. Check on MusicBrainz opens the original entity page.
- Validate saves your decision; Reject prevents the proposal from being used. Also show reviewed matches reveals previous decisions and Undo decision returns one to pending.
- For an artist, Validate and retrieve biography saves acceptance and starts a task for that exact artist. An accepted match offers Retrieve biography. Follow the job in the enrichment section; its stop action remains available after navigation.
A biography still needs a MusicBrainz Wikidata link. Aède completes the validated identity’s detailed links before retrieving the Wikipedia summary in the chosen language, with English fallback. A link or article may be unavailable. Finding a name in the Encyclopedia is not an identity review. Picard remains an option, not a requirement.
Decisions apply to the shared catalogue and never edit audio files or tags. A proposal changed since display must be refreshed before acceptance. If biography submission fails, the already saved decision is retained. Update and restart Aède if the server does not yet advertise this capability.
Missing albums are discography suggestions, not playable files. Their display is configurable; the cross hides a suggestion, which remains accessible among hidden suggestions. Aède documents providers, attribution and identification.