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Gary Steinert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:09:42 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I think the spaces around "featuring" should be
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<pre wrap=""><!---->retained,
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<pre wrap="">at least for the "f." option. Im sure there are many
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<pre wrap=""><!---->bands
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<pre wrap="">with names comprising initials (AFI for one, which I
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<pre wrap=""><!---->have
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<pre wrap="">seen tagged many times as a.f.i) in these cases, a
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<pre wrap=""><!---->false
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<pre wrap="">positive would be generated. I can't off the top of my
head think of any situations where a false negative
would be returned if ( " f." || "(f." ) were used.
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<pre wrap="">I was thinking about that. I've also seen (and in fact
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<pre wrap=""><!---->have) tracks
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<pre wrap="">using square brackets. Maybe something like the
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<pre wrap=""><!---->following list (note
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<pre wrap="">spaces, if someone isn't using a fixed-width font):
" featuring "
"(featuring "
"[featuring "
" feat. "
"(feat. "
"[feat. "
" ft. "
"(ft. "
"[ft. "
" f. "
"(f. "
"[f. "
What do people think about that list?
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Awesome =) Except for the spaces after *feat. *ft and *f. I
can imagine people omitting these spaces at times when
tagging. (e.g. "Artist one feat.Artist Two"). Don't know if it
actually happens, but theres always the possibility.
Hmm, thinking about it though, artists with initials
starting with F may suffer from that. Ah the joys of
finding the middle ground =P
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At some point this all gets ridiculous and we have to just hope that
people are smart enough to notice that things are being excluded from
Various Artists (that's what this is for I assume) because their tags
are retarded. <br>
I think this is that point. <br>
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