Artist

The canonical work, not a binding to a provider. deadair.artists minus the columns that only ingest cares about: artist_key is a match key, and a row with merged_into_id set is never read out at all.

imageUrl on both contracts below is one field with two spellings. An absolute URL is the provider's own, still hotlinked because nothing has cached it yet; a relative art/<uuid> is the station's copy, to be resolved against the API base the client already configures (the API mounts at the root and does not know the /api prefix the edge adds). Prefer the local one by doing nothing: the switch happens server-side as soon as the art cache pass has the bytes.

Attributes (7)

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	string	Yes	read-only
name	string	Yes
mbid	string	No	MusicBrainz artist id, absent until enrichment resolves one
imageUrl	string	No	Absolute upstream URL, or an API-relative path to the local copy
rating	Rating	Yes	default: neutral
albumCount	number	Yes	Unmerged albums credited to this artist. read-only
trackCount	number	Yes	Unmerged tracks credited to this artist. read-only