2019-03-01, 08:39
I have a good amount of albums and have been trying to think of a way to accomplish a better (for me) way to be able to sort thru my collection. I don't like having a ton of extra lists in artist view when a song has a guest artist on it. What I mean by that is if all my Beastie Boy albums have 15 total guest artists. There will be 16 entries and thumb nails under artists for Beastie Boys. I know I could technically tag those albums as compilations and it would fix it. But, they're not and it still wouldn't give me the flexibility I'm looking for for the next the thing I'm trying to do here. Here's what I'd like to do, be able to make a smart play list, or find a song based off guest appearances. I suck at explaining things so I'll use an example.
Beastie Boys featuring Biz Markie - Bennie & The Jets.
I'd like to be able to not just search my library based off Biz Markie, but search only for songs that he's featured on, and none of his own. Pretty sure this is impossible without some modifications to ID3s. What I have come up with was for those tracks with guests to put the guest artist in the comment, or grouping field. Then I could create a smart playlist that says "song's that extended field contains Biz Markie" Not sure how smart playlists work in KODI, as I've only messed with them a little. But I've done similar things with iTunes. It seems like the best method, but I'm curious if there's a different way I'm overlooking. Right now to keep the bunch of extra names to show up and clutter my artist list I have my tags like this
artist: Beastie Boys
track: Bennie & the Jets f/ Biz Markie
This leads me to my 2nd issue, *IF* my theory's basically a good way to do this, I have a lot of music and it would take me forever and a day to manually edit all the ID3s. Now I know what I'm attempting to do is pretty specific so I don't really know ifd any software exists (Windows) that could do this, or at least semi-automate this. All my music's tagged pretty thoroughly. I thought maybe Music Brainz would, but playing with it I think what I'm trying to do is just too unusual. I'd rather ask here and get told no like I'm thinking already. Then to edit a couple thousand ID3 tags only to ask here and get told "you shuda done this big dummy!" I suspect doing this manually will take me a solid month of work lol.
if anyone reads this, can actually understand me, and has an idea for a method to accomplish this better than mine. Or knows of the magical software I'm looking for I'M ALL EARS!
Beastie Boys featuring Biz Markie - Bennie & The Jets.
I'd like to be able to not just search my library based off Biz Markie, but search only for songs that he's featured on, and none of his own. Pretty sure this is impossible without some modifications to ID3s. What I have come up with was for those tracks with guests to put the guest artist in the comment, or grouping field. Then I could create a smart playlist that says "song's that extended field contains Biz Markie" Not sure how smart playlists work in KODI, as I've only messed with them a little. But I've done similar things with iTunes. It seems like the best method, but I'm curious if there's a different way I'm overlooking. Right now to keep the bunch of extra names to show up and clutter my artist list I have my tags like this
artist: Beastie Boys
track: Bennie & the Jets f/ Biz Markie
This leads me to my 2nd issue, *IF* my theory's basically a good way to do this, I have a lot of music and it would take me forever and a day to manually edit all the ID3s. Now I know what I'm attempting to do is pretty specific so I don't really know ifd any software exists (Windows) that could do this, or at least semi-automate this. All my music's tagged pretty thoroughly. I thought maybe Music Brainz would, but playing with it I think what I'm trying to do is just too unusual. I'd rather ask here and get told no like I'm thinking already. Then to edit a couple thousand ID3 tags only to ask here and get told "you shuda done this big dummy!" I suspect doing this manually will take me a solid month of work lol.
if anyone reads this, can actually understand me, and has an idea for a method to accomplish this better than mine. Or knows of the magical software I'm looking for I'M ALL EARS!