Support `remixers` field
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 120
- Forks
- 41
- PR merge metrics
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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"),
)
```
Contributor guide
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