beetbox / beetbox/mediafile

Support `remixers` field

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Description

### Summary
Add first-class support for a `remixers` metadata field in `mediafile`, including read/write mapping to the Vorbis comment tag `REMIXER` (and equivalent tags in other container/tag formats).

### Motivation
Many electronic/club releases credit remixers separately from primary artists. Today this information is often stored in format-specific tags (e.g., Vorbis `REMIXER`) and gets dropped or conflated with `artists`. Adding `remixers` improves metadata fidelity and round-trip editing.

### Potential solution
This should be as simple as adding

```py
remixers = ListMediaField(
MP3ListDescStorageStyle(desc="REMIXERS"),
MP4ListStorageStyle("----:com.apple.iTunes:REMIXERS"),
ListStorageStyle("REMIXER"),
ASFStorageStyle("WM/REMIXERS"),
)
```

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Research direction

Start by locating the existing media field declarations and the storage-style definitions in mediafile, then compare how similar list fields map tags across formats. Add the remixers field with the proposed mappings and verify that REMIXER and equivalent tags are preserved when metadata is read and written.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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