[Subsonic] Search3 for a "displayArtist" name doesn't return any artist.

[GioF71]

Hello!
I have a few albums with multiple artists, tagged using musicbrainz with Picard.
Picard would create an "albumartist" tag with the combination of the two artist (e.g. "ArtistOne & ArtistTwo"), while the individual artists remain in two distinct "albumartists" tag. That's perfectly fine.
But, when I use BubbleUPnP on my subsonic plugin for upmpdcli and select the context menu "Albums by ..." then BubbleUPnP asks the upmpdcli server to search for the displayArtist, because that is what I associated to the UPnP entry.
The problem is then that the search3 endpoint doesn't return any of the artist when the query parameter is set to e.g. "ArtistOne & ArtistTwo".

I circumvented the issue by keeping track of which actual artist ids are related to the artist display name, but that's a bit hacky.

Is there something different I can do about the situation?

Thank you!

[epoupon]

Hello!
If I understand correctly, you want the search for "ArtistOne & ArtistTwo" return both "ArtistOne" and "ArtistTwo" because there is a release where the display artist is "ArtistOne & ArtistTwo"?
I have the feeling this sounds hacky and keeping track of the album artists (like you did) is more the way to go?

That being said, this reminds me that now LMS better handles artist name aliases, it should search for name aliases, which is not the case today

[GioF71]

Hello, you are right and I would never do such a search. But this is the search that BubbleUPnP automatically does when it encounters an album with this situation. I just wanted to cover the functionality but I agree, it would be hacky.
Btw I would not want lms to split the search request into two, but maybe just "look" in the artist/displayArtist "combined" values in addition to the individual artist entries.
Of course, it would probably still be hacky. Adding the artist combination in the tags might also do but would require lots of tagging. Doable anyway!