extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/collection/sqlcollection

[Orville Bennett]

Gary Steinert wrote:
> On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:09:42 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>    
>> Gary Steinert wrote:
>>      
>>> I think the spaces around "featuring" should be
>>>        
> retained,
>    
>>> at least for the "f." option. Im sure there are many
>>>        
> bands
>    
>>> with names comprising initials (AFI for one, which I
>>>        
> have
>    
>>> seen tagged many times as a.f.i) in these cases, a
>>>        
> false
>    
>>> 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.
>>>        
>> I was thinking about that.  I've also seen (and in fact
>>      
> have) tracks
>    
>> using square brackets.  Maybe something like the
>>      
> following list (note
>    
>> 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?
>>      
>
> 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
>    
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.
I think this is that point.

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