Artists

The Artists view shows every artist in your library. Each row shows artwork (or a fallback album cover), name, and stats. The right side shows a large artwork panel with the artist’s biography from Navidrome’s artist info (usually Last.fm). When the bio comes with a link, a “Read more on …” line names the site and opens it in your browser. Under the bio sit the artist’s similar artists, from ListenBrainz.

For navigation, search, multi-select, ratings, and shared right-click actions, see Library Basics. For artwork panel sizing, see Artwork & Performance.

Sort modes

Name (default), Favorited, Most Played, Album Count, Song Count, Rating, Random

Album Artists vs. Track Artists

In Settings → General, the Album Artists Only toggle controls whether collaborators / track-only artists show up in this view. With it on, only artists with explicit album-artist tags appear — keeping the list tighter for libraries with lots of features and one-off contributors.

Columns

Toggle via the gear icon: Multi-select, Index, Thumbnail, Stars, Album Count, Song Count, Plays, and Love. Everything but Multi-select defaults on.

Expansion

Shift + Enter on an artist (or clicking the “N albums” text) expands their albums inline below the row. Only one artist can be expanded at a time; changing sort or search clears the expansion. Expanded album rows offer the standard Add to Queue / Add to Playlist / Get Info / Show in File Manager context-menu actions. Artist rows offer the same minus Show in File Manager (an artist has no folder of its own), plus Find Similar and Top Songs (see Recommendations).

Recommendations

Right-clicking an artist row adds two extras beyond the shared menu:

Find Similar — open a panel of tracks like this artist.
Top Songs — the artist’s most-played tracks.

Both switch to the Queue view’s Similar tab and match against songs already in your library — see Similar Songs and Top Songs. They act on the artist row only; expanded album rows underneath use the standard menu.

For artists rather than songs, and artists you don’t have yet, see Similar artists below.

Similar artists

Under the biography, the artwork panel lists up to ten artists like the one you’re on, straight from ListenBrainz. Unlike Find Similar, this list isn’t limited to your library, so it doubles as a way to find new music.

The Artists view with Chihei Hatakeyama highlighted on the left; on the right, the artist photo, bio, and a SIMILAR ARTISTS row of tags under it, most filled in the accent color and one outlined with a globe

Filled tags are artists in your library. Click one to jump to them in the Artists view.
Outlined tags with a globe are artists you don’t have. Click one to open their ListenBrainz page in your browser.
An artist you only have as a guest on other people’s albums opens in the Songs view, filtered to their songs, since there’s no Artists row for them.

Hover a tag to see whether you have that artist, plus MusicBrainz’s short note about them when there is one (handy when two artists share a name).

The list needs the artist’s MusicBrainz ID, which comes from your files’ tags or from Navidrome’s artist info. An artist without one gets no list.

You don’t have to be in the Artists view. Right-click any album, song or artist row (in the library views, the Queue, or the Library Browser’s Similar tab) and pick Similar Artists. An album or song row uses its artist. Or press Shift + R on the highlighted row, and Shift + R again to close it.

The Similar Artists popup over the Queue: a search box, then one row per artist with "In your library" or "Not in your library" under the name and a globe button on the right

Type to filter the list. Enter or a click on an artist you have jumps to them and closes the popup. Each row’s globe button opens the artist’s ListenBrainz page, whether you have them or not.

Privacy

Looking up similar artists sends the artist’s MusicBrainz ID to ListenBrainz. It needs no ListenBrainz account or token. To send nothing, turn off Settings → General → Similar Artists: ListenBrainz (similar_artists_online in config.toml). With it off the panel shows no list and the popup says it’s turned off.

Click-through expansion

From an expanded album row, drill into tracks via:

“N songs” text or Shift + Enter on a centered child album → Albums view with that album expanded inline at the top.
Album name → Albums view with that album expanded inline at the top.

Collapse with Shift + Enter, or change sort to clear the expansion state.