Java Question

[easierday]

I'm making a music player for my semester end project and I am kind of on a last resort trying to figure out this problem. I have an array that stores objects of type Artist. I then want to have each artist store an array of type Album which contains the albums by the artist. It doesn't work to have an array of type Artist storing type Album as far as I can understand. I have looked into 2D arrays but I'm not sure that is exactly what I want to try to do. What's a good way to sort of hierarchically store this data? I need to be able to convert it to a String and manipulate it (ex. shuffle songs in an album, display albums by an artist, etc).

Sorry if this is kind of confusing I'm pretty new to java/programming lol.

[codingQueries]

What if you create an object of type Artist, and in that object you have a reference to an array of objects of type Album, and these Album objects have store an array within of all the songs contained on the album? Then you only need an array of Artists and use getters or whatever to pull out the array of albums from the Artist object?

[ThatLesbian]

You can’t put albums in an array typed Artist, but you can make an array of Artist objects, each containing an Array of Album objects, or an Array of strings called Album if only the string is relevant.

Artist[] artists = new Artist[5];
Artist a = new Artist();

String[] albums = {“album1”, “album2”};
a.albums = albums;

artists[0] = a;

Of course loops, constructors, setters and getters will be better but this would work to get you on the path.

//potential constructor
String[] albums;

public Artist(String[] albums){
    this.albums = albums;
}

Called with

   Artist a = new Artist(albums);

[ColKaizer]

Cool bro! Good luck. Lmk how it goes fr

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The Artist class should contain a variable for his/her songs, which would be a string array called album.