[mb-style] No mean (feat.)

[Chris B]

well presumably the title would be Gorillaz (feat. Shaun Ryder) :)

the thing is, (i imagine) feat. came about to add consistancy to a lot of 
tracks which are actually named (on the printed tracklisting) 'SongX 
(featuring ArtistY)'. since then, we have the situation where users are 
adding feat. artists if they feel it is useful info, which to be fair it 
usually is.

personally, i'd prefer (feat. x) info to appear in the actual title field of 
the file ONLY if it appears on the printed tracklisting, rather than hidden 
in the liner notes somewhere, and if not, just stick it in the 
notes/comments ID3 field along with all the other AR info of that track (in 
a nice layout!). however that's probably something best left to user 
preference - eg check boxes in tagger options - 'append guest artists to 
track name', although this obviously is not always desirable if you have 
millions of guest artists. maybe just the ones doing vocals would be more 
useful, or maybe the user could pick on choose on a track by track basis.

sorta rambling here, but that's how i imagine the tagger dealing with AR.

Cheers,
Chris B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Begbie" <rodbegbie at gmail.com>
To: "MusicBrainz style discussion" <musicbrainz-style at musicbrainz.org>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [mb-style] No mean (feat.)


> On 5/29/05, Stefan Kestenholz <g0llum at gmx.ch> wrote:
>> its less a style problem, than that the picard tagger
>> isn't just there yet. once we have the possibility to tag
>> with AR, this will be dicussed. please be patient...
>
> I'm not sure I undestand the need to wait -- What exactly will Picard
> be doing with this data?  If the song is "DARE" by "Gorillaz" and
> features guest lead vocals by Shaun Ryder, how will Picard tag the
> file?
>
> Rod.
>
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