Soundtracks as a first-class object

[GaroRobe]

Why bother?
The issue is, first and foremost, that there is no proper way to find/track/download OSTs for movies, games or anime. And I already have quite a collection. It gets even worse when I'm trying to plunge it into Plex. So, 1) find and download, 2) integrate into Emby/Plex/whatever.

My take on automatized solution
Since the central issue is that soundtracks are, basically, a music collections and "fall apart" when you try to bind them to Artist, I propose to categorize them differently in terms of Lidarr entities:

1. Instead of [Artist] use [Product] (such as "Cowboy Bebop", "Silent Hill 3" or "The Dark Knight")
2. [Album] - same as in case with any other music
3. [Track] - override with "[Artist] - [Track]" (would be nice to overwrite tags for library!)

I'm not yet familiar with the code, but I expect something like a inherited "Soundtrack" from "Artist". That's a thing subject to research.

Also, I briefly searched for data sources I could use for metadata.

https://vgmdb.net - looks very promising for anime and games. I tried few queries and am greatly satisfied with it
http://www.soundtrackinfo.com/ - should do the trick for movies

Alternatives?
Picard or Mp3Tag helps a great deal, but fall short on streamlining the process part.

[daephx]

+1 for interest but wanted to throw in some info, I think it would be nice if Lidarr handled this.

I still have to use MusicBrainz Picard and somewhat manually handle the file management but an idea could be from a plugin in Picard I use that overwrites the "albumartist" tag if the release type = "Soundtrack".

As a bonus, from what I can tell I don't see a variable for "Disc #" in Lidarr's file renaming which is something I would also desire; it'd also be nice if you could scrub "Original Soundtrack" out of the title and replace it with [OST], currently my Picard version isn't working as intended.

Fullpaths and Screenshot for example:

"M:\Music\Soundtrack\Halo 3 - ODST [2009] [OST] [FLAC]\Disc 1\1-01. Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori - Overture.flac"

"M:\Music\Soundtrack\Halo 3 - ODST [2009] [OST] [FLAC]\Disc 2\2-01. Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori - Bits and Pieces.flac"

This does seem like it would obscure the artist but some of these albums would have been filed under "Various Artists" anyway, which got kinda ugly when hunting it down and makes organization within Plex much cleaner.

I apologize if I've overlooked anything and thank you for any input. I love Sonarr and Radarr, I want to love Lidarr as well.

[ta264]

This will be covered by #844 (they'll show up as various artists)