Artist profiles

Artist pages and biographies

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Open an album artist to browse their albums using the usual search, filters, sort and paging. The breadcrumb/Back returns to the collection you came from.

• Use the heart for an account-specific favourite saved locally in Tagcast; use iBroadcast rating stars for that artist's rating in iBroadcast. See ratings and favourites.
• Hover/focus the artist photo to choose Change image or Add image. It changes the image throughout iBroadcast after a separate comparison/save; see artwork.
• Select albums to edit shared fields within this artist, or review complete albums for trash. Editing still uses metadata review; trash has a separate confirmation.
• Optional biographies are described below. They do not replace album browsing or start collection-wide lookups.

Optional artist biographies

1. Open Settings → Artist biographies.
2. Enable Show artist biographies from TheAudioDB, then save Settings.
3. Open an album artist. If a matching English text is available, expand About this artist to read it and follow the source link.

This option is off by default. Enabling it alone does not scan the library or fetch biographies. Visiting an artist reads the local cache first; missing or outdated text is fetched in the background while the albums remain usable. Only that artist's name is sent to TheAudioDB. No account credentials or track lists are sent, and no iBroadcast metadata is changed.

Public English text is held separately in artist-biographies.sqlite3 in the Tagcast settings folder. Available texts are reused for 30 days before checking again; missing or ambiguous matches are remembered for one day. Existing cached text stays available during a refresh. The cache is limited to 5,000 records and 20 MiB of stored content, plus SQLite overhead. Turning the feature off stops future lookups and keeps the existing cache.

After a temporary provider failure, Try again at … shows when another attempt is available. The button becomes usable at that time without fetching automatically; click it to retry. Cached text stays visible and the biography stays open during the retry. Artists without a stored name are not looked up using the Unknown artist display placeholder; the page explains that a name is needed.

Exact artist names are matched; ambiguous results are left unresolved. A same-name result can still describe a different artist, so check the attribution link. Text may be missing or outdated. The feature uses TheAudioDB's free API; there is no bundled Premium key or Last.fm sign-in. The feature provides English text.