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 always a path under the API root, never a provider's URL: art/<uuid> for the station's cached copy, or art/source/<token> for one it has not cached yet, which the station fetches on first ask and serves as its own. Resolve either against the API base the client already configures (the API mounts at the root and does not know the /api prefix the edge adds). The switch from the second to the first happens server-side.

Attributes (8)

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	An API-relative path: the cached copy, or the station's proxy for an uncached one
rating	Rating	Yes	default: neutral
suspendedUntil	string	No	Kept off the station until this moment: a scheduling decision with an end date, which leaves rating alone. Absent is not suspended, and a suspension that has lapsed is simply absent. read-only
albumCount	number	Yes	Unmerged albums credited to this artist. read-only
trackCount	number	Yes	Unmerged tracks credited to this artist. read-only