Make it possible to display the COMMENT tag comments on the album page

Feature description:

Navidrome displays the text of the COMMENT tag on the album page (along with highlighting URLs to make them clickable links). I see that the COMMENT tag is displayed in the detailed information for the track (inside a menu), but I’m requesting that it be available for Albums, most likely included among the available tags in the bottom showing Label, Date Released, etc.

Problem solved:

It allows use of the COMMENT tag to display album information/links

Brought benefits:

Many artists use this to link to their Bandcamp or other storefronts; I’m planning to use it to link to an external host for liner notes/booklets (unless that functionality is somewhere in Symfonium and I just haven’t seen it).

Other application solutions:

Navidrome does this by default and I’m pretty happy with their implementation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/navidrome/comments/1kdr6k7/options_for_adding_album_notesdetails/

Additional description and context:

Screenshots / Mockup:

comment is a track level tag, description is the proper tag for albums and is already supported.

I wan’t aware of the existence of that tag, so thanks for bringing that to my attention. I’ll test it out tonight, but I’m glad to know it’s there.

Cheers!

I think something might be not working. I updated the description tag to contain the link to the booklet, but the field does not show on the Album screen (where I would expect based on the visibility settings). It does, however, display under the Track details labelled as “Comment”.

Is this the desired/expected behavior?

I’m guessing you are accessing the media via Navidrome ?

OpenSubsonic does not support yet description of albums, and Navidrome loading description as tag comment is not correct.

You need to open an OS feature request to properly support that at API level GitHub - opensubsonic/open-subsonic-api: Repository hosting the definition and discussions of the Open Subsonic API

I put through the request (thanks for the tip) and am getting some minor pushback. Do you happen to have the “chapter and verse” link documenting that the standard expects both Comment (to apply to tracks) and Description (to apply to albums)?

The initial feedback I got is that Picard doesn’t include Description tags, so they don’t exist as part of the standard.