funkwhale/docs/developer/data.md

Data structure

Channel

• has a one to one relationship with Artist, Library, Actor (unique to the channel, used for federation), Actor (attributed_to, the actor owning the channel).
• can be an Artist channel if the channel.artist.content_category == "music", or a Podcast channel if channel.artist.content_category == "podcast", in which case artist.album are podcast series,and tracks are podcast episodes.