Add brackets to featuring artist and & symbol

[monepayn]

Hi all,

I tried to find something similar on other posts and the closest was this one:

Help with simple renaming script

Can anyone help with this… any tag with “feat.” gets replaced with “ft” if “ft” exists in album or anywhere else its copied to title (if it doesn’t already exist there) as you can see, just explaining that in English was a challenge!! any characters not allowed in filenames (like : or ) to be removed from all tags. eventually i’d like to rename files and folders according to tags. Thanks.

Mine’s a little different in the sense I am requesting a script that can do:

1. Changes ft./featuring/feat to “feat.” (assuming this will also move ‘feat. xxx’ to title)
2. Adds brackets around the featuring artist (i.e. ‘feat. xxxx’)
3. Adds “&” before the last featuring artist (if more than one).

For example:
Calvin Harris - Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean )

Furthermore, I’m not a coder by any stretch of the imagination but my understanding is the script you provide (if anyone see’s this and replies with an answer), must then be saved as a .py and then added to MusicBrainz Picard as a plugin? If so, how does one take your script and turn it into a .py file? Using Mac btw

Thanks in advance! Love your work guys!!

[Rovastar]

I don’t think you will find something that does what you want for your cases.

However there is a plugin called “Feat. Artists in Titles” that will move it to the title.
I don’t I know if can do the brackets around it.

and 3. the “&” in the artists name that should be fixed in the data. That would be the general standard.

It is better to link to individual cases of musicbrainz data so we have a better understanding of what releases you are referring to.