Contributing Artists?

Greetings! I have a huge library that has several files (often just one per album) where a contributing artist is present, and it majorly throws off iTunes (and makes a horrible mess on my iPod). Is there a naming scheme for filenames or artists that iTunes recognizes for files like "BB King and Eric Clapton - Riding With the King.mp3", or do I have to deal with seeing "BB King and Eric Clapton" as a distinct artist (as well as the hundred other people he has done tracks with)?

Just trying to clean up!

Thanks,
~Mynnx

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Posted on Jan 4, 2006 7:52 AM

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Jan 4, 2006 8:40 AM in response to Mynnx

LOL

The only thing I can think of is this (I know it may not quite be appropriate for you but it may help)

Rename the Artist to JUST the main artist, which I am assuming is BB King, and then rename the title of the track by adding "Featuring Eric Clapton" so it would be "Riding With the King - Feat. Eric Clapton". That's what I have done to some of mine.

I'm all for "cleaning up", but iTunes does make it tricky at times. You've just gotta think of the best way to suit you 🙂

Jan 24, 2006 8:20 AM in response to Mynnx

I'm sorry, but manually renaming every song is completely unreasonable. There has to be a better solution. I have dozens of artists misnamed by iTunes and HUNDREDS of songs. For instance, Thievery Corporation uses guest vocalists on every song. The songs should all be listed under Thievery Corporation. Instead, they're listed as Guest Vocalist/Thievery Corporation. This is absolute nonsense. I don't know or care who the guest vocalist is. I am thisclose to taking the darn thing back. I can't even imagine why someone thought this was a good idea. When you buy a CD, you buy it for the artist. So if I buy a Johnny Cash CD, every song on it should be listed under Johnny Cash, not Johnny Cash/Guest Vocalist. Ridiculous. Please, someone tell me how to fix this without manually renaming each file.

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