Western scholarship has historically favored selected translations – focusing on the most entertaining stories, biographies of famous poets (like Imru’ al-Qais or Abu Nuwas), and episodes from the courts of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs.
If you read German or French, the situation is better. You can find PDFs of volumes like Die Lieder des ʿAbdallāh ibn Ǧudʿān (German) or Le Livre des Chansons (French selections by Marius Canard). These are often digitized and available on (BNF) or Archive.org . kitab al-aghani english translation pdf
The book is structured around 100 chosen songs (by composers such as Ishaq al-Mawsili). However, for each song, al-Isfahani provides: for each song