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Can we get an extra tab on artists pages for "Covers Of This Artist"?

Xian Vox

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Xian Vox @ 2018-09-22 01:50:57 UTC

It's great that I can go check out to see what covers an artist has done, but I also like to find out who has covered a particular artist. I'm not seeing that information here and it seems like it would be a pretty easy DB query and UI update to make happen.


Pretty please?

Oldiesmann

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Oldiesmann @ 2018-09-22 05:47:53 UTC

While that does seem like a good idea at first, the list could get really long for popular artists/songs. For instance, take popular American country musician Hank Williams.


We currently have 94 works originally performed by him in the database. Of those, 6 have been covered by 100+ artists. Even if you assume that some artists have covered multiple Hank Williams tunes, you're still looking at a list of well over 500 artists just from 6 songs.


It's ultimately up to Mathieu to make the call on this one, but I don't see it happening.

Tar Heel

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Tar Heel @ 2018-09-22 06:18:59 UTC

My initial reaction is to agree with OM's response. Expanding on his comments, let's say such a Tab is added listing all the artists that covered (e.g.) Hank Williams. Would you expect the site to filter out just the Hank covers by a listed cover artist upon clicking on their name or just go to the existing artist page?


In addition, some artists recorded the definitive version of a song but aren't the original, which would likely result in results that aren't complete from a typical user's perspective.

Bastien

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Bastien @ 2018-09-23 18:21:28 UTC

Hello Xian,

Thanks for your suggestion. Could you describe a use case? Or maybe why you would like to browse such a list?