# "Feat." is short for "featuring" and "ft." is short for "feet"

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feat-is-short-for-featuring-and-ft-is-short-for-feet/545503>\
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard\
**Created:** [August 8, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feat-is-short-for-featuring-and-ft-is-short-for-feet/545503 "2021-08-08T04:07:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2021, 5:06am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feat-is-short-for-featuring-and-ft-is-short-for-feet/545503/10 "2021-08-09T05:06:16Z")

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> [@DerekFerric](#):
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> any trick to get featured artists from the brackets in track titles to be added to the contributing artists field instead?

This can be done with scripting. Here is a script that puts featuring from artist to title, it could be adapted to do it the other way:

> [@"Feat. Artists in Titles" plugin doesn't seem to be working anymore](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feat-artists-in-titles-plugin-doesnt-seem-to-be-working-anymore/519439/2):
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> It does not work because this track list uses “ft.”, but the plugin expects “feat.”. I think there are two solutions for you: Activate the "Standardize featuring plugin. This will replace both “X ft. Y” and “X featuring Y” with “X feat. Y”. With this enabled the “Feat. Artists in Titles” plugins will work in this case again. Use a script. The functionality of the “Featuring Artists in Titles” plugin can be replicated with the following script: $set(\_feat\_title,$rsearch(%artist%,\\s+\\\(…

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