Solitaire001 wrote:
Another possibility that might be better is to use the straight quotes ( " ) to enclose the names of each individual artist/group in a multiple artist/group list. Example: If the artists for a song are Queen and David Bowie they would be written as: "Queen" "David Bowie". If the entry doesn't contain straight quotes, then it is treated as a single artist. Within the straight quotes any symbol is allowed.
What happens to "Weird Al" Yankovic, Richard "Groove" Holmes, and Richard "Humpty" Vission then? It was a good thought though
(Maybe use { and } or something??)
I don't really want to get into this entire debate, but I will say that I'm one of the nameless people that's completely happy with the ; as the seperator. It's been a godsend and my music collection is much better because of it.
I was searching for a way to do alternate names, because I want them to all show under that artist's nodes. After reading all 11 pages of this thread, I've seen a lot of stuff that could/should be implemented that would solve these problems but very little that would solve my problem now. These should show up in the Louie Armstrong node:
Louie Armstrong
Louie Armstrong & His Hot Five
Louie Armstrong & Hist Hot Seven
Louie Armstrong and His Stompers
The All Stars
To compound this problem, ol' Satchmo allowed his name to be leant to bands that he was "involved" with but wasn't a strict member of for promotional purposes. Maybe these bands
shouldn't be part of Louis Armstrong's node. And I'm sorry, having Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; Louie Armstrong in the artist field is not a good solution. I have enough problems as it is keeping under the 255 character limit for a path on my external HDD.
So at this point I think that the involved people field is probably the best bet, but man, what a pain in the ass this all is.
And does anybody think it's ironic that there are this many people trying to standardize artist's expression in names so rigidly? I find it funny.