Featured Artists option now working in SongKong 2.1 release

Last week we released SongKong 2.0 with masses of improvements, unfortunately as is de riguer  we also introduced a few bugs and the new When Tracks contain Featured Artists option didn't actually work.

There are all now fixed in SongKong 2.1 now available from the Download page

I thought it worth revisiting the featured artists option with some examples.

With the default Add all contributing artists to the artist field option enabled all artists credited for that track are added to the artist field and all artists credited to the release as a whole are added to the album artist field. So if the songs were matched to this release then we would have:

Album Artist : Mark Ronson
Album           : Valerie
Track 1 Artist:Mark Ronson feat, Amy Winehouse
Track 1 Title :Valerie

If we used Only use main artist in the artist field and discard other artists option then we would get

Album Artist : Mark Ronson
Album           : Valerie
Track 1 Artist:Mark Ronson
Track 1 Title :Valerie

or if we used Only use main artist in the artist field and add others to the title field then we would get

Album Artist : Mark Ronson
Album           : Valerie
Track 1 Artist:Mark Ronson
Track 1 Title :Valerie (ft. Amy Winehouse)

  
If a song is equally credited to multiple artists then the multiple artists will be added to the artist field whatever option is selected, for example in this release David Bowie and Mick Jagger are equally credited at track and release level  so both will always be added to the artist and album artist fields with their join phrase to give us

Album Artist : David Bowie  & Mick Jagger 
Album           : Dancing in the Street
Track 1 Artist:David Bowie  & Mick Jagger 
Track 1 Title :Dancing in the Street

How do we decide if they are credited equally ?

We look at the join phrase, currently ' & ', ' / ' and ' , ' are treated as equal weighting, in all other cases we consider the first artist to be the main artist. This will probably be expanded for other cases