Questions about the Music library

I`ve been trying to get my music library organized today, and ran in some minor set-backs. The basic ideea is that i have music from various sources (ranging from iTunes & Amazon to torrents to CDs to everything basically).

Now i`ve come across some stuff regarding tagging and fanart. Basically , as an example, you have 2 tracks, one named "ATB feat. Melissa Loretta - White Letters.flac" and one called "ATB - Moments in Peace.flac" , and you have the album in it`s own folder which is under a general folder called ATB with a fanart.jpg in it , giving you a folder structure like this :

D:/ Music / ATB /
ATB - Distant Earth (2011) / ATB feat. Melissa Loretta - White Letters.flac , ATB - Moments in Peace , ....other songs....
ATB - Future Memories (2009) / ..songs...
.
.
fanart.jpg

Now, when you are in the album in XBMC, and you hover over "ATB - Moments in Peace" the fanart.jpg will show up in the background, as expected. But if you select "ATB feat. Melissa Loretta - White Letters" the fanart will not be displayed. I`m thinking that this is because XBMC reads the "ATB feat. Melissa Loretta" tag as a single artist, not as 2 separate artists that are on the same track.

Going through the wiki, i`ve found an advancedsettings.xml option ( http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...library.3E ) called "<itemseparator> / </itemseparator>" , which states that this is (and i quote) "separator used for multiple artists/genres in tags" . Now i presumed that changing this from " / " to " feat. " would resolve my issue. Did that, deleted my library, added it again and scanned, but no dice, same behaviour.

So, maybe i misunderstood how XBMC reads those tags and what that settings does, and if so, is there a way to resolve my issue?

Ok, even more weird results.

If i remove the Album Artist ID3 tag from a song featuring 2 artists ( Artist X feat. Artist Y - Song Name), the fanart (for the first artist in the name) shows up when the track is selected, but if the Album Artist ID3 tag is present, no fanart when hovering over the track.

It's all to do with the artist tags, yes.

ATM XBMC uses the complete albumartist tag (or artist if no albumartist is provided), so if it has more than one artist listed it will use the whole thing.

XBMC doesn't know that "Artist X feat. Artist Y" means that it should use Artist X for the fanart. In the future it WILL know if you use the seperator (by default " / " but you can change it to " feat. " if you want - we don't currently support more than one however).

Lastly, XBMC doesn't care what your filenames are called, it only cares about tags.

Cheers,
Jonathan