Feature description:
Symfonium correctly parses artists from metadata tags, but it does not recognize featured artists credited exclusively in track titles.
This request specifically targets title-level feature credits (e.g. “Song Title (feat. Artist B) - Artist A”), not Artist or Album-artist tags (“Song Title - Artist A (feat. Artist B)”). The goal is to optionally parse these title-only credits and register them as artist appearances, so the track appears in the featured artist’s “Appears on” section—covering a case that is currently unsupported rather than one already solved by existing artist-tag parsing.
Problem solved:
Featured artists credited only in track titles are not recognized by Symfonium, so those tracks do not appear in the featured artist’s “Appears on” section even though their participation is explicitly stated in the metadata.
Brought benefits:
Parsing featured artists from track titles would allow those tracks to appear under the correct artists, completing collaboration listings and improving artist discovery without requiring changes to existing tagging practices.
Other application solutions:
MusicBrainz Picard parses “feat.” credits from titles and stores them as separate artist relationships, allowing appearances to be shown correctly without altering the main Artist tag.
Roon links featured artists extracted from titles into its artist graph so tracks appear under “Appears on.”
MusicBee supports configurable parsing of title patterns like “feat.” into a dedicated featured-artist field that is indexed for browsing.
foobar2000, via components, can extract featured artists from titles into searchable tags.
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