more descriptions of how this works

README.md

@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ Rosé constructs the virtual filesystem from the audio tags. However, audio tags
 are frequently missing or incorrect. Thus, Rosé also provides a set of tools to
 improve the audio tag metadata.
 
+Note that the metadata manager _modifies_ the 
+
 Which I have yet to write. Please check back later!
 
 # Configuration
@@ -98,25 +100,64 @@ cache_dir = "~/.cache/rose"
 
 The `--config/-c` flag overrides the config location.
 
-## Library Conventions & Expectations
+# Data Requirements
+
+The `music_source_dir` must be a flat directory of albums, meaning all albums
+must be top-level directories inside `music_source_dir`. Each album should also
+be a single directory in `music_source_dir`.
+
+Every directory should follow the format: `$music_source_dir/$album_name/$track.mp3`.
+
+So for example: `$music_source_dir/BLACKPINK - 2016. SQUARE ONE/*.mp3`.
+
+## Supported Filetypes
 
-### Directory Structure
+Rosé supports MP3, M4A, OGG, OPUS, and FLAC audio files and JPG and PNG image
+files.
 
-`$music_source_dir/albums/track.ogg`
+## Tagging
 
-### Supported Extensions
+Rosé is somewhat lenient in the tags it ingests, but applies certain
+conventions in the tags it writes.
 
-### Tag Structure
+Rosé uses the `;` character as a tag delimiter. For any tags where there are
+multiple values, Rosé will write a single tag as a `;`-delimited string. For
+example, `genre=Deep House;Techno`.
 
-WIP
+Rosé also writes the artists with a specific convention designed to indicate
+the artist's role in a release. Rosé will write artist tags with the
+delimiters: `;`, ` feat. `, ` pres.`, ` performed by `, and `remixed by` to
+indicate the artist's role. So for example,
+`artist=Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky performed by André Previn;London Symphony Orchestra feat. Barack Obama`.
 
-artist1;artist2 feat. artist3
+An ambiguous BNF for the artist tag is:
 
-BNF TODO
+```
+artist-tag ::= composer dj main guest remixer
+composer ::= name ' performed by '
+dj ::= name ' pres. '
+main ::= name
+guest ::= ' feat. ' name
+remixer ::= ' remixed by ' name
+name ::= name ';' | string
+```
 
 # Architecture
 
-todo
+Rosé has a simple uni-directional architecture. The source audio files are the
+single source of truth. The read cache is transient and is solely populated by
+changes made to the source audio files. The virtual filesystem is read-only and
+uses the read cache for performance.
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart BT
+    A[Metadata Manager] -->|Maintains| B
+    B[Source Audio Files] -->|Populates| C
+    C[Read Cache] -->|Renders| D[Virtual Filesystem]
+```
+
+Rosé writes `.rose.{uuid}.toml` files into each album's directory as a way to
+preserve state and keep release UUIDs consistent across cache rebuilds.
 
-- db is read cache, not source of truth
-- filetags and files are source of truth
+Tracks are uniquely identified by the `(release_uuid, tracknumber, discnumber)`
+tuple. If there is a 3-tuple collision, the track title is used to disambiguate.

rose/artiststr/__init__.py

@@ -32,13 +32,16 @@ def _split_tag(t: str | None) -> list[str]:
     li_composer = _split_tag(composer)
     li_producer = _split_tag(producer)
     li_dj = _split_tag(dj)
+    if main and "remixed by " in main:
+        main, remixer = re.split(r" ?remixed by ", main, maxsplit=1)
+        li_remixer.extend(_split_tag(remixer))
     if main and "feat. " in main:
         main, guests = re.split(r" ?feat. ", main, maxsplit=1)
         li_guests.extend(_split_tag(guests))
-    if main and " pres. " in main:
+    if main and "pres. " in main:
         dj, main = re.split(r" ?pres. ", main, maxsplit=1)
         li_dj.extend(_split_tag(dj))
-    if main and " performed by " in main:
+    if main and "performed by " in main:
         composer, main = re.split(r" ?performed by ", main, maxsplit=1)
         li_composer.extend(_split_tag(composer))
     if main:
@@ -62,4 +65,6 @@ def format_artist_string(a: Artists, genres: list[str]) -> str:
         r = ";".join(a.djmixer) + " pres. " + r
     if a.guest:
         r += " feat. " + ";".join(a.guest)
+    if a.remixer:
+        r += " remixed by " + ";".join(a.remixer)
     return r