Sometimes it is a real struggle for mappers to find the correct metadata for a specific song, that’s due to ambiguous informations on technically trustable/oficial websites. But here comes the question, if not even the oficial artist cares enough to use the same metadata on their website and YouTube channel at the same time, why do we need to? I’m not saying that we shouldn’t care for metadata at all, what I’m suggesting is a different way of adding metadata information on the Beatmap editor painel.
What if we had instead of only Title / Rom. Title / Artist / Rom. Artist / tags / source —- we also had boxes for featured artists and producer, tv size or not (anything that can add up to the actual metadata title or artist but now in an organized way) so, instead of having each song with a different type of metadata (eg. Feat. Ft. Featuring etc — it really depends on the artist choice) we could simplify the title and standardized all beatmaps to have the same layout.
Just take a look at all the japonese beatmaps we have featured at osu!, every single one of them has their own way of saying the same thing, for instance, variations in TV SIZE, you can pick 5 anime openings from the ranked category and I bet none of them have the same TV SIZE written (stuff like -Tv Size- [TV SIZE] TV SIZE etc is very common, and yet very messy)
Another eg: some songs have feature artist in the title and some in the artist, every artist have their metadata in their own way, and osu! Should standardize every beatmap in order to make it easier to understand for the player, just like streaming services like iTunes, Spotify does
What if we had instead of only Title / Rom. Title / Artist / Rom. Artist / tags / source —- we also had boxes for featured artists and producer, tv size or not (anything that can add up to the actual metadata title or artist but now in an organized way) so, instead of having each song with a different type of metadata (eg. Feat. Ft. Featuring etc — it really depends on the artist choice) we could simplify the title and standardized all beatmaps to have the same layout.
Just take a look at all the japonese beatmaps we have featured at osu!, every single one of them has their own way of saying the same thing, for instance, variations in TV SIZE, you can pick 5 anime openings from the ranked category and I bet none of them have the same TV SIZE written (stuff like -Tv Size- [TV SIZE] TV SIZE etc is very common, and yet very messy)
Another eg: some songs have feature artist in the title and some in the artist, every artist have their metadata in their own way, and osu! Should standardize every beatmap in order to make it easier to understand for the player, just like streaming services like iTunes, Spotify does