MusicSearch

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Feature Matrix

This represents whether a feature is available (✅) on a platform, planned (⬜), or not supported (❌). Some ✅ features are still work-in-progress, and their progress are tracked under their respective sections. Inspired by Spotless’ feature matrix.

Feature	Android	Desktop	iOS
Browse	✅	✅	✅
Collections	✅	✅	⬜
Images	✅	✅	✅
Graph	✅	✅	✅
MusicBrainz Login	✅	✅	⬜️
Pixel Now Playing History	✅	❌	❌
Search MusicBrainz	✅	✅	✅
Spotify Playing History	✅	⬜️	⬜️
Swipe to Refresh	✅	✅	✅
Up navigation from subtitle	✅	✅	✅
Wikipedia Extract	✅	✅	✅

Browse

The following table shows all resources you can browse for in an entity’s details screen. It was derived from https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_API#Browse.

Given an entity, when you click on them from anywhere in the app, you will land on their details page. In separate tabs, you can see all related entities listed under browsing supported. e.g. On an artist’s page, you can see their events, recordings, releases, and release groups.

Entity	Browsing supported	Browsing not yet supported	Unsupported
area	artists, events, labels, places, releases	collections	recordings, works
artist	events, recordings, release, release groups, works	collections
collection	areas, artists, events, instruments, labels, places, recordings, releases, release groups, series, works
event		collections
instrument		collections
label	releases	collections
place	events	collections
recording	releases	collections	artists
release	artists	collections	labels, recordings, release groups
release group	releases	collections	artists
series		collections
work	artists, recordings	collections

There are no url details screen, clicking a url will just go to that url, either opening it in the browser, or deep linking to an app that supports it
labels by release have been excluded, as we fetch all labels in the initial lookup with inc=labels, displaying it in the Details tab
releases by track (which releases a given track is found in) is not supported as we don’t have a track details screen. Clicking a track goes to its associated recording
releases by track_artist may eventually be supported, but is not planned. This would be found in an artist’s details screen
artists by recording have been excluded as it is already fetched with initial recording lookup and is displayed as artist credits in the top bar
artists by release group have been excluded as it is already fetched with initial release group lookup and is displayed as artist credits in the top bar
recordings by release have been excluded as it is the same as tracks by release which we already fetch with release lookup
release groups by release have been excluded as it is already fetched with initial release lookup and is displayed in the top bar dropdown menu. There is only one such release group a release may belong to

Collections

Your personal list of entities. You can add to and delete items from them.

New collections can be created but will only exist locally due to technical limitations.

A collection can only store one type of entity. See below for the supported types of collections.

Entity	Supported
area	✅
artist	✅
collection	❌
event	✅
instrument	✅
label	✅
place	✅
recording	✅
release	✅
release group	✅
series	✅
work	✅

Images

Entity	Supported
area	⬜️
artist	✅
collection	⬜️
event	⬜️
instrument	❌
label	⬜️
place	❌
recording	❌
release	✅
release group	✅
series	❌
work	❌

Graph

Artist/recording graph showing which artists and recordings a given artist collaborated with and on. This is currently limited to artists credited on the recording, which are primarily performers.

Inspired by Obsidian’s graph view.

From the app’s settings, you can login to your MusicBrianz account. This allows the app to fetch and display all of your collections.

Search MusicBrainz

Entity	Supported
area	✅
artist	✅
collection	❌
event	✅
instrument	✅
label	✅
place	✅
recording	✅
release	✅
release group	✅
series	✅
work	✅

Spotify Playing History

You must enable “Device Broadcast Status” from Spotify’s settings to allow this app to receive broadcasts from Spotify. Afterwards, with both Spotify and MusicSearch open, your listening history will be recorded, allowing you to search for recently played tracks’ artists, albums (release groups), and tracks (recordings) in MusicBrianz.

Swipe to Refresh

TODO: screenshot of details screen TODO: screenshot of list screen

Entity	Details	List Screen
area	✅	✅
artist	✅	✅
collection	❌	✅
event	✅️	✅
instrument	✅	✅
label	✅️	✅
place	✅	✅
recording	✅	✅
release	✅	✅
release group	✅️	✅
series	✅	✅
work	✅	✅

A collection does not have a details screen. It only has one tab which lists all of its contents. e.g. An artist collection lists all of its artists
List screens are analogous to those listed under “Browsing supported” in the browse feature section.

TODO: Insert an image/gif of a release with multiple artist credits

From the subtitle of the following screens, you can navigate “up” without having visited them first.

Recording -> Artist
Release -> Artist, Release Group
Release Group -> Artist

Wikipedia extract

Displays a Wikipedia excerpt of the entity along with a link to deep link into Wikipedia to read more. This depends on the existence of a Wikidata link. If an entity is missing one, consider adding it to MusicBrainz, and/or to Wikidata.

At the moment, we always get the English Wikipedia article’s extract.

Entity	Details
area	⬜️
artist	✅
event	⬜️
instrument	⬜
label	⬜️
place	⬜
recording	⬜
release	⬜
release group	⬜
series	⬜
work	⬜

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