Artist bio not showing with Navidrome as media provider

Issue description:

I’m able to see artist images from last.fm, but not artist bios when using Navidrome as the media provider. These both show in the Navidrome web interface. If I switch the media provider to Subsonic (actual) server, I do see both artist images and bios.

Logs:

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Additional information:

 
Bio info is shown with Subsonic (actual) as the media provider.
 

Reproduction steps:

 
Enable last.fm with api key and secret in Navidrome.
Check that artist image and bio are shown in Navidrome.
In Symfonium, look at an album artist.
Look for biographical info.
None is there. Artist image is displayed however.
 

Media provider:

Navidrome

Screenshots:

 

    

Showing bio from Subsonic server media provider:

The logs does not show a sync. But you need to ensure to have the option fetch additional metadata enabled on the provider and have full sync.

You may need to remove the provider and add it again if there were Navidrome side issues at some point during the first syncs.

How do I ensure a full sync? Fetch additional metadata is set.

Press the sync button. But best is to remove the provider then enable logs and add it.

OK I removed the provider, enabled debug mode, added the provider and sync’d, then uploaded the logs again.

Results are hit or miss. Some artists have bio info, others do not.

And I’m supposed to guess which ones ? :wink:

From the logs there’s no errors and the server answered properly to all getArtistsInfo2 calls.

If some do not have bio there’s something on Navidrome side.

I opened an issue with Navidrome here:

It was closed with the comment:

If the bio was appearing in Navidrome’s UI, this was most probably caused by a sync issue in Symfonium. Glad it worked.
[Bug]: Artist Bio not showing in Symfonium · Issue #3719 · navidrome/navidrome · GitHub

It appears to me that adding the Last.fm API keys after several days of using Navidrome and Symfonium together, caused the display of Artist Bio info not to work properly in Symfonium. Because when I added the keys to a fresh instance of Navidrome, it appears to be working.

Well if we ignore the fact that you removed the provider in Symfonium removing all cache and the logs clearly showing the artistInfo2 returning empty bio the yes it’s probably Symfonium…

Anyway it works now after changing Navidrome side, so the bug in Symfonium is probably fixed :slight_smile:

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