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ad2k3
Alright, for my tagging, I have the featured artist (if any) added on the end of the artist tag,as that seems more logical than putting it at the end of the song title which most people do. Anyway, at the moment I sort my songs via:

%ALBUM ARTIST% - %DATE% - %ALBUM% - %TRACKNUMBER%

Now, the problem with this is that it sees an artist with a featured artist as another artist. This means the songs with a featured artist end up underneath the ones without, so they end up out of tracknumber order. e.g.:

Dave - Song 1
Dave - Song 3
Dave - Song 4
Dave feat. Bob - Song 2

Is there any way of fixing this?


Thanks.
gfngfgf
Try this out (btw, I put my feat. artist at the end of my title, so I might have missed replacing all the %title%'s with %artist%'s) (edit: %album artist%'s, rather):

CODE
$puts(feat1,$strstr(%album artist%,' feat.'))$ifgreater($get(feat1),0,$trim($substr(%album artist%,1,$get(feat1))),%album artist%)
- %date% - %album% - %tracknumber%

I added a line break in there just to make the code fit on the forum.
ad2k3
Oooh. It works flawlessly. Thank you very very much.
q-stankovic
I would prefer an own column for the featuring artist. Not only that you can achieve the same result after configuring playlistview to display the featuring artist directly after the main artist, you also could use this new field in database search, album list, browser, quicksearch etc.

But you have to apply a masstagger script on all your files to seperate the featuring artist from your %artist% tag.
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