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Songs with feat. (featuring) best practices
blgentry:
I have a small number of songs on albums that have guest artists that are marked as "feat." or "featuring". Most of the ones in my library now put the "feat." in the song name. Like:
Love Of My Life (Feat. Dave Matthews)
Some have "feat." in the Artist field like:
Leftfield featuring John Lydon
What's the accepted standard? I just ripped two new (to me) CDs and each had feat. artists. One put them in the song names, the other put them in the Artist field! I'd just like to be reasonably consistent.
Thanks,
Brian.
SkGe:
Try to add an additional field and there you can set up your desire name, aka: feat. featuring, guest etc. That way you have more option to use and know what song or artist is featured. That way i set up my featuring.
BryanC:
--- Quote from: blgentry on March 08, 2016, 10:26:34 am ---What's the accepted standard? I just ripped two new (to me) CDs and each had feat. artists. One put them in the song names, the other put them in the Artist field! I'd just like to be reasonably consistent.
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I believe that a semi-colon delineated list in the artist field is the accepted standard. [Name] should be the name of the track only.
RD James:
--- Quote from: BryanC on March 08, 2016, 12:44:13 pm ---I believe that a semi-colon delineated list in the artist field is the accepted standard. [Name] should be the name of the track only.
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That's what I use, and then the main artist goes in [Album Artist]
mark_h:
I use an 'Artist Featuring' field.
This allows me to keep the featured artists data separate from the main artist, making things easier to manage.
It also helps when generating views or searching external websites as I can build the data as I need it, so for viewing, I'd show
[artist] .feat [artist featuring]
But for searching, eg the UK Official Charts website, I'd only search on [artist].
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