there's no easy solution as far as i can see. i use the same method as you -
put everything in the ARTIST tag. you could split the artists out like you
say, but after a lot of thought i came to the conclusion that putting
everything in the one tag was the most sensible - and it comes up as a
selection in an artist search anyway. also, there are other examples of
similar situations: use of "presents" and "versus" for example:
"Lenny Fontana pres. Cassioware"
"Cracked Logic vs. Zed's Ded"
you'd need solutions for all of them, not to mention occasional use of
"with" and even "showcases". and things can get really out of control when
multiple use comes into play - e.g. my all time favourite:
"Blaze pres. Underground Dance Artists United For Life feat. Barbara
Tucker"
thx.
h.
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Sent: 22 October 2005 22:18
To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com
Subject: [slim] Tracks "featuring" other artists
I tried asking about this in the Ripping list, but got no responses, so I
thought I'd open it up to a wider audience...
What do people think the best way is to tag tracks such as "Twista feat
Kanya West & Jamie Foxx"?
I currently have a few of these tracks with the whole string entered in a
single ARTIST tag. I'd like to tag them as separate artists, with
associated ARTISTSORT tags.
Eg. I could enter the example above as:
ARTIST = "Twista;Kanya West;Jamie Foxx"
ARTISTSORT = "Twista;West, Kanya;Foxx, Jamie"
I think this is a little better. However, this would mean I am losing the
information that associates the 2nd and 3rd atists as "featuring" artists;
browsing the entry would list the artist as "Twister and Kanya West and
Jamie Foxx". I wondered if there is a tag for listing the "featuring"
artists? I've seen an INVOLVEDPERSONS tag - but I guess there's no specific
support for the tag in SlimServer, or an associated SORT tag.
Perhaps as an enhancement, a special character after the separator character
could indicate to SlimServer to use "feat." instead of "and" as separator
text? Eg. something like ARTIST = "Twista;+Kanya West;Jamie Foxx"
I'm also thinking that the featured artists shouldn't be listed in Browse
Artists, unless they are also in the library as an "album artist" - like how
teh new various artist logic works.
What should I do? How have others organised their tags?
Phil
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