merge Misspelled Artists

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It's usually a good idea to merge a misspelled artist into the correctly spelled version. This is preferable to doing a MoveAlbum or ChangeTrackArtist, because MergeArtists automatically adds the "lost" artist name as an ArtistAlias to the target artist.

So next time someone attempts to add a track to the misspelled artist, the ArtistAlias will automatically redirect them to the correct spelling, instead of re-creating the incorrect spelling.

This is in some ways analogous to the MergeRatherThanDelete guideline for DuplicateAlbums.


Author: ZeroGravitas