That was a good read, thanks!

Hey just following up on this, I took your advice and got it working! For anyone seeing this in the future I took the old navidrome.db and called it navidrome_fav_artist_backup.db and then I loaded into the new database (after making a backup of it) with sqlite3 navidrome.db and then I ran this

-- Attach the backup database as "backup"
ATTACH 'navidrome_fav_artist_backup.db' AS backup;

-- Update annotations for favorited artists by matching on artist name
UPDATE annotation
SET starred = 1,
    starred_at = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
WHERE item_type = 'artist'
  AND item_id IN (
    SELECT newArtist.id
    FROM artist AS newArtist
    JOIN backup.artist AS oldArtist ON newArtist.name = oldArtist.name
    JOIN backup.annotation AS oldAnnot ON oldArtist.id = oldAnnot.item_id
    WHERE oldAnnot.item_type = 'artist'
      AND oldAnnot.starred = 1
  );

-- Detach the backup database
DETACH backup;
.quit

Breaking Changes

• Artist favourites and artist ratings will be lost after the upgrade.

I spent a lot of time carefully favoriting artists. Is there any way to re-import or maintain these favorites after updating?