by gnavs » Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:06 pm
I've got a fairly large library (130k+ songs) and as my musical tastes evolve and change I'm finding that I now have several different bands under the same name. I'm pretty OCD about ensuring artist / album / track info is accurate so I can filter by things like genre, artist, etc. on the ipod classic that I sync to. With multiple artists sharing a name it can be problematic.
For example, I'm feeling in the mood for some garage rock, so I look for the band Slaves (English garage rock band) on my ipod and end up seeing them plus another band named Slaves (American punk / hardcore band).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to ensure these artists are kept separate, despite having the same name, without resorting to something like what discogs does, adding (1) to the end of the artist name? Perhaps a script that also looks for additional info taken from one of the custom fields?
I've got a fairly large library (130k+ songs) and as my musical tastes evolve and change I'm finding that I now have several different bands under the same name. I'm pretty OCD about ensuring artist / album / track info is accurate so I can filter by things like genre, artist, etc. on the ipod classic that I sync to. With multiple artists sharing a name it can be problematic.
For example, I'm feeling in the mood for some garage rock, so I look for the band Slaves (English garage rock band) on my ipod and end up seeing them plus another band named Slaves (American punk / hardcore band).
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to ensure these artists are kept separate, despite having the same name, without resorting to something like what discogs does, adding (1) to the end of the artist name? Perhaps a script that also looks for additional info taken from one of the custom fields?