[mythtv] [PATCH] Multi Artist patch for MythMusic - I'd call it RC1 by now...

[Colin Guthrie]

Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> Well, kind of related, but a while back I found Musicbrainz to be a good 
> source of multiple artist information, and their program (windows only) 
> can help fix up your existing music.  It would be worth a glance at that 
> when designing metadata, they have been playing around with that kind of 
> problem for a while (no great solutions though)

I had a look round there, but most of it is more or less common sense 
(not that this doesn't need pointing out every now and then!!)

There still doesn't seem to be a standard vorbis comment field for the 
equiv. of ID3v2 TPE4 tho' hense why I randomly chose to name it 
"mixedby". I did have a good hunt round Musicbrainz to see if anything 
is recommended but unless I'm being a complete muppet (not beyond the 
realms of posibility), there isn't!

Cheers for the thought tho'.

I wrote a couple of bash scripts that used the folder names to grab the 
Album Artist data and slap it in my id3v2/vorbis comment fields for all 
my tracks, so provided people keep their filesystems neat and tidy, then 
they could inject this additional metadata fairly easily into their 
files and, with a little tweaking, the scripts could theoretically slap 
it into the myth metadata table too, so that you don't have to rescan 
everything and lose scores/ratings etc.

Col.

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