do you add Feat. "who ever"

[ironsight2000]

in your music library do you have Feat. "who ever" or just the main artist

[gigapixels Veteran]

I can't think of any specific tracks that have a featured artist, but IIRC I just put "f. <artist>" on the track name so that it takes up as little room as possible. I hate long track names.

[LightIdea]

I remove it.

[ironsight2000]

im just think in length as to reduce the amount of same artiest but different features

[gigapixels Veteran]

Oh I never include it in the artist field. That's one thing that bugs me even more than really long track names: an artist's tracks split into several "artists" because of things like that. I just have the artist name as the main artist and the featured one as I said above in the track name.

[Scirwode]

If it's one the CD cover, then I put it in. I like to be organised :p .

Scirwode

[Lqv2015]

Yes, I put "ft." on my music file & in the song.

[obiwong]

i put it in the file name and the tag

[Ricardo Gil]

I just let iTunes tag it.

[iZoom]

Unless its someone that I've never heard of, I usually leave it off, to remain organized.

I usually know who the singer is and if I don't, then I shouldn't be hearing that song ;)

[Smigit]

I remove it.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

It goes into the artist field as "xxxxx ft. yyyyyy"

My filenames are {album artist} - {album name}\({track}) {artist field} - {title}.mp3

[alisalem]

Always. I even pay attention to capitalization.

http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html

[Lqv2015]

I have mine all lower case. Who the hell needs to have the correct grammar in music? It saves me more trouble & headaches.

Then how about tracks that are 2 artists colaboration? xxxx & yyyyy - zzzzzz. I hate that. Messes up my iPod organizing.

[LunarFalcon]

Oh I never include it in the artist field. That's one thing that bugs me even more than really long track names: an artist's tracks split into several "artists" because of things like that. I just have the artist name as the main artist and the featured one as I said above in the track name.

I do mine the same way. It drives me nuts to have several "artist" listings for the same artists.

[IceBreakerG]

This is something I'm very very picky about. I absolutely hate having "Feat." in the name. For the ID3 tags, I have it set where the Artist has "only" the original artist, and then for the track name I have:

"Song Name (Featuring Whoever) (Remix) (Produced By Producer's Name)"

I always put the entire word "(Featuring )" in there after the song title. If the song is a remix, then I'll put "(Remix) after the "(Featuring )" so I know who else is on the song, and at the end of that I put "(Produced By )" so that I know who the producer of the song is. A lot of people don't care about that, but I like knowing as much about the song as possible. And since I pay very close attention to the production aspects of a song, knowing who produced it is important to me as well.

[alisalem]

^ Yeah I do the same. I leave the ft. out of the artist name and put it in the track by adding (ft. Artist 1, Artist 2 & Artist 3)...If it's a remix I add (Remix - ft. ...).

[Mathachew Veteran]

I remove them. I'm particular about the verbiage of my music library and whether or not it's consistent. I spent a good bit of time cleaning up discrepancies... darn the OCD inside of me

[xinary]

Always. I even pay attention to capitalization.

http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html

Cookie?

[DaViD_BRaNDoN]

I have mine with "," and/or "&" instead of "feat."

[golf7]

Artist is always just the main artist "Artist"

Title is always like this "Title (ft. The Other, Artists, & You Know)"

Prevents multiple artists in ipods and just a good way to tag your music.

and name them

TrackNumber-Artist-Title

Ex) 04-50_cent-still_kill_(ft._akon).mp3

something like that

[Xero]

Only on the track title. I hate how iTunes places it under the Artist label. Very dumb for iPod usage and just plain messy.

[Blindlabel013]

I imagine it's a lot different for the type of music you listen to. With Rap it'll be something like: 50 Cent - |01| - Going to the Club (feat. Your Mom, His Mom, Her Mom and Your Sister). For my collection it's simply one artist all the time, but I still do it the same way. It looks best this way IMO.

I think adding featured artist to the artist panel is a waste considering it messes with your organizing as well as sorting. Not to mention, very rarely is a person featured on more than one track of the album.

[Lqv2015]

^^

That's true. But I always seem to want to listen to a song that has such & such on there. For example, Nate Dogg. He doesn't have many albums but he's featured in many rap songs. It'll be nice to know & hear what song he did 10 years ago.

[Ricardo Gil]

I didn't realize so many of you cared that much about the file system aspect. :blink:

Why are file names that important?