Include artist country and start/end date in artist info
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Description
When looking up artist information on MusicBrainz, their area and start/end dates are also returned. It would be neat to have this information included as well, so you could use this information for path names (e.g., `/path/to/music/Redžepova, Esma (1943–2016)/…`), searches ("show me music performed by people from Uganda born in September"), etc.
This would obsolete the 3rd party plugin [`beets-artistcountry`](https://github.com/agrausem/beets-artistcountry) and it would thus probably be good to reuse the `$artistcountry` variable from that, if it makes sense.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the beets-artistcountry plugin linked in the issue, especially its $artistcountry variable, and trace how MusicBrainz artist information is incorporated. Define how area and start/end dates should appear in artist metadata, path names, and searches, then verify those uses with the existing behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100