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Bug 611510 - Support for combining artists in one even when using special locution such as "featuring"
Support for combining artists in one even when using special locution such as...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 540873
Product: banshee
Classification: Other
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: 1.x
Assigned To: Banshee Maintainers
Banshee Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-01 19:04 UTC by Andrés G. Aragoneses (IRC: knocte)
Modified: 2010-03-05 07:55 UTC
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Description Andrés G. Aragoneses (IRC: knocte) 2010-03-01 19:04:05 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Have one song called "David Guetta - Love Don't Let Me Go", another song called "David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over".
2. Import the songs into Banshee.
3. Look at your artist-navigation pad.

Current results:
2 different artists are shown

Expected results:
Banshee should parse for strings like "featuring", "feat", "feat." and try to discard them (along with what's after it) when sorting by Artist.

There are other special locutions that should be covered by this enhancement, such as "present"/"presents". For example the song "Robbie Rivera presents Rhythm Bangers - Bang" should be parsed as just "Robbie Rivera" for the artist.
Comment 1 Andrés G. Aragoneses (IRC: knocte) 2010-03-01 19:06:20 UTC 
I wonder if any new version of ID3 tags support (or will support) specifying this bits in different fields BTW.
Comment 2 Alexander Kojevnikov 2010-03-05 07:55:24 UTC 
I don't think parsing song titles is practical. There a dozens of ways to mention a featuring artist multiplied by the hundreds of languages the song title can be written in.

There are standard tags for artists, performers, conductors, composers, etc. Most of the tagging formats (including ID3v2) support specifying more than one of each of them.

In summary, if you are not happy with your tags you should edit them.

As for including/excluding specific tag fields in the artist browser, it's actually bug 540873. Closing this one as its dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 540873 ***