Consider dropping remixers from track credits when they appear in track titles

[derat]

I've noticed that a lot of remix albums imported from Spotify include remixers in track credits; see e.g. https://musicbrainz.org/edit/135653815.

Per the style guidelines, these credits should usually be omitted:

A track/recording that is a remix of another recording should typically be credited to the original recording’s artist, not to the remixer.

It's somewhat painful to clean these up after the fact. I usually edit the release's relationships first and copy the artists into "remixer" relationships on the corresponding recordings, before editing the release and deleting all of the remixers from the track credits one-by-one, and then copying the credit changes to the corresponding recordings.

I wonder if it'd be reasonable for Harmony to drop a remixer from the credits when the same name appears in the track title followed by " remix". One downside is that Spotify's information about who remixed the track (which I think Harmony uses to resolve an MBID) would be lost. As far as I know, there's no way to seed the appropriate artist-recording "remixer" relationships when the release and recordings are initially being created.

[kellnerd]

Although I rarely edit remix releases, I agree that this would make sense.
If Harmony had a concept of relationships, we could even preserve the external IDs (and potentially mapped MBIDs) of the remix artists. I've finally entered #166 for that idea.
Initially we couldn't seed them via the release relationship editor, but we can at least display them in a format which is easy to copy.