space101 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 It'd be nice if we could have a feature where tracks that have artists featured within the track title like Title (Feat. Artist) would automatically put those featured artists into the track's information, rather than the title. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 That sort of facility is available in some of the more advanced re-tagging programs, but it's not really the remit of a music player. I never understood why people do that anyway, I could understand "Artistname feat. Othername", but not Title. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fyourself Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 It's probably because many music players don't read or sort by album artist tags. So it spits albums up into several different ones by several artists, sometimes even requiring a playlist just to play the entire album in order. It also cutters the library with different artists for each different feature. Ex. "Artist 1", "Artist 1 (ft. Artist 2)" "Artist 1 (ft. Artist 3, Artist 4 & Artist 2)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Many of these sort of issues will be helped by the planned feature to allow multiple artist names to be read from tag data, and the option to use a user-defined separator. That way in addition to the default separators like ";" and "//", you could add your own such as "feat.", "ft.", etc. Even that wouldn't be able to cope with very random artist tags containing brackets/etc like "Artist 1 (ft. Artist 3, Artist 4 & Artist 2)" though. Andre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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