Following up one musician's tracks and following a team of collaborators

Ways to spot tracks which were contributed by a certain musician

In this article we will cover three easy ways to browse any musician's tracks which are all available regardless of having a members account on wikiloops.
Wikiloops also offers a social-network kind of "follow" function to define interest between registered members, but we will focus on following-up by navigation here.

Searching for a member by name
The most direct way to round up everything a certain member has played on is to simply search for their name. Head to the track search tool and open the "Extras" section at the bottom of the filter column. Below the "Chord charts", "Single tracks" and "Lyrics" filters you will find a "Musicians" field - start typing a member's name there and pick the right person from the list of suggestions that appears (each suggestion shows the member's avatar, so you can be sure you picked the right one).
The track list will instantly narrow down to tracks that member took part in. You can stack up several musicians this way - up to six - and each one shows up as a little chip below the field. With more than one name added, the results will only list tracks that feature all of those musicians together, which is a neat way to dig up the shared output of a duo or band whose teamwork you enjoy. Changed your mind about someone? Just remove their chip to drop them from the filter again.

Browsing tracks via the "Same Musicians" panel
When starting to browse the backingtrack collection from the track search tool and browsing some tracks, you will sooner or later spot a track that has the certain thing you like, and sometimes it is quite obvious who has added that extraordinary bit - be it the drummer who plays just the right style or the vocalist with the funny lyrics, the guitarist with the way-out sounds or the bassist who rules the track from the low ends.
In such situations it is time to let go of thinking in categories, and to check out if there is more of the good stuff supplied by that individual musician.
Locate the "Alternative tracks" panel on the tracks page and switch to the "Same Musicians" tab.
By default, the "Same Musicians"-tab checks if it can find tracks which feature the same mix of collaborators, which works best when looking for duos or trios (the more musicians need to be matched, the smaller the chance to find a second match).

To focus on one single musician instead of all involved musicians, select the musician you would like to follow up by clicking on their avatar picture in the "Musicians"-tab in the "Track Info" panel. The "Same Musicians"-tab will reload and offer you more tracks involving your musician of interest.

Browsing a musician's tracks by visiting the user profile
This second option takes you away from the playground of track pages and the track search tool and lets you focus entirely on the artist whose profile you are visiting.
To visit a user's profile, click on the member's username and have a look around the personal info and list of shared tracks on the user profile.
The "Tracks"-Tab on the user profile lists all public contributions, and you can re-order and filter them with the tools offered at the top of the "Tracks"-Tab, and listen to them right on the artist profile.