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There is a tag in ID3 MP3 files called "featured artist." Its usually only used in the Rap world, with a lot of collaboration projects. For example, Eminem writing a song, but "featuring" Jay Z in his song. Or Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean in her song "Hips Dont Lie." I think there might be a couple of other good uses for this tag.
But does XBMC support/recognize this tag in its Library view?
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No, Xbmc does not recognize that tag.
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Just tag the artist as:
Normal Artists / Featured Artist
And then the library will list the track under both.
If you find the exact tag spec for the featured artist tag, XBMC can probably be enhanced to handle the formatting for you (though it won't say "featuring")
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Jonathan
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Ill dig into it.
However, thinking about this, I believe that I would rather the tag be addressed in the Song Title, instead of the Artist Tag. For Example:
"Hips don't Lie" by Shakira, features Wyclef Jean. I think it would look better to have:
Trk # - Artist - Title
01 - Shakira - Hips Don't Lie feat. Wyclef Jean
than to have:
Trk # - Artist - Title
01 - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
If you get where I'm coming from. I just think its a cleaner application of the tag.
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2006-12-12, 22:48
(This post was last modified: 2006-12-12, 22:51 by kraqh3d.)
"*If* we do anything, it would be to add some new info tags for accessing the primary artist seperately than the secondary artists. Then you can do what you want. (Something like whats below.) But, the Xbmc's code isnt really set up to differentiate them. The artist, as Xbmc knows it, is a single concatenated string.
$INFO[MusicPlayer.Track, - ]$INFO[MusicPlayer.PrimaryArtist, - ]$INFO[MusicPlayer.Title, featuring ][$MusicPlayer.SecondaryArtists]
"01 - Shakira - Hips Don't Lie featuring Wyclef Jean"
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Alot of the mp3 files I have seem recently tend to put the data your talking about in the comments field in 2.3 rev tags
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The first. If they're slash-separated then the artists are stored separately in the db, and both artists are linked to the one song.
So you'll just get
Shakira
Wyclef Jean
and the song will appear under both.
When it's played back, it's artist field will state: Shakira / Wyclef Jean.
Cheers,
Jonathan
