do you add Feat. "who ever"

[HawkMan]

Well you should keep track number, and name in the filename at the very least in case the tags get fubar somehow. then you can restore th emost improtant info at least.

personally why not just add multiple artist tags, or put it in the performer tag. multiple artist tags is what's best for using the music on players with only tag based sorting though, since then you can ask for all songs by artist, and you get the songs the artist has been eatured in as well. and it doesn't break artist sorting by the artis tag "Artist & featured artist" or similar. as then the song won't appear is you ask for all songs by either artist as the whole song is only on some unique artist that exists onlyfor one or two songs.

[Black Hawk]

I listen to a lot of music that has featured artists so I put it in. I also leave it in so I can search for the artist.

Artist - Album - Track # - Song (feat. Artist)

[Smigit]

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

Why are file names that important?

Sometimes I have to navigate to a track in windows explorer for whatever reason. With a directory structure of Artist - Album - Song I've found at times I have scenarios where I get multiple folders at the top level with names such as "band", "Band and someone else", "Band featuring another person" ect ect. It's really just a PITA and I'm 99% only concerned with who the primary artist is. I'm sure at least one tool at some point when it did this caused an album to be split between two locations, something I don't want to happen besides compilation albums (I tend to not put it in a various artist folder but a seperate folder for that album under all applicible artists).

I also prefer the track names to be as short as necessary. If a song is live 95% of the time I leave it as (Live) and don't include the actual location because it doesn't really matter. The other 5% where I do leave the place name will be if theres two live recordings of the same song from different places. If it's a live album I won't even tag the songs as live as the album title will give that away.

Thats more to do with readability, especially on portable devices.

[Glorious]

If Winamp's auto-tag fails on it I usually put (Feat. Artist Name)