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Songs with feat. (featuring) best practices
rudyrednose:
According to the wiki : http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Album_Artist_and_Album_Artist_(Auto)
So [Album Artist] should have the main artist for the whole album, and [Artist] would have a semi-colon delineated list of participating artists on each track, possibly starting with the main album artist.
But it is on your own ;)
connersw:
I use the semi-colon delineated list in the Artist field and main artist in the Album Artist field method already mentioned.
When tracks come pre-tagged with a feat. in the Artist field, it is pretty easy to correct using a simple Library Tools -> Find and Replace. However, when it is in the Name field like OP mentioned, it can be a bit more of a tedious task to correct. Does anyone have a standard expression or method they use to help make it simpler?
ferday:
a tough task, because you'd have to write the expression to account for every possible way to write it
so ft., feat., featuring, with, and, etc.
with patience and regex it's doable but what a thing that would be at the end. if it turns out someone has traveled that road i'm all over it...
blgentry:
Thanks for the ideas and descriptions of your setups. I'm not looking to make yet another field for this; I think it will be too cluttered for me. After all, if it's in another field, I have to have some way of displaying that field. So I'm going to figure out where I want it and I guess standardize on that.
Brian.
blgentry:
--- Quote from: connersw on March 11, 2016, 09:53:41 am ---When tracks come pre-tagged with a feat. in the Artist field, it is pretty easy to correct using a simple Library Tools -> Find and Replace. However, when it is in the Name field like OP mentioned, it can be a bit more of a tedious task to correct. Does anyone have a standard expression or method they use to help make it simpler?
--- End quote ---
As I said, I only have a handful of these in my library. So I don't have extensive experience with breaking out the "feat." artists. However, I've developed the following expressions which work correctly with a [Name] field that has "feat." or "feat" in it. This is by no means highly tested. So play with it, but it's not advertised as being anywhere near perfect.
Song name expression:
--- Code: ---regex([Name],/#(.+)\s+(feat\.*.+$)#/,-1,0)[R1]
--- End code ---
"feat." Artist expression:
--- Code: ---regex([Name],/#(.+)\s+(feat\.*.+$)#/,-1,0)[R2]
--- End code ---
If you're going to experiment, I suggest making them expression columns so you can see what the output is without altering any fields.
Brian.
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