AliasTags and Artists

[simoncn]

(27-05-2013 19:55)hvaleton Wrote:  Hi Simon,
thanks for your prompt reply.
I was completely flabbergasted, though, by your answer, until I put on my thinking cap and went a little deeper into this strange case.
Why strange?
Well, when I first tested multiple artitsts by replacing all the comma's in the original Artist tag, this did give the desired result. And using an aliased tag it did not!
Just now I looked 'inside' the flac file (using PSPad editor) and noticed that apparently MediaMonkey stores the various artist names that I put in the original Artist tag, into as many separate Artist tags.
Your reply made me suspect that this would be the case, but I had never before read that MM worked this way.
As you have guessed by now, MM does not "cut up" the Custom4 tag into the necessary number of identically named tags, but just stores it as is: one long string.
I will now try and find a solution for this... (suggestions, anyone?)

Have a nice evening!

Hans

From this, it sounds like Media Monkey supports multiple tag values for Artist (using a semicolon to separate the values) and doesn't support multiple values for any other tags.

Can you confirm this with the Media Monkey developers? If this is a limitation of Media Monkey, you would unfortunately not be able to achieve what you want with Media Monkey as your tagging program.

If Media Monkey supports multiple tag values for any other tags as well as Artist, you might be able to use a different tag in Media Monkey and use aliasTags to alias this tag to Artist in MinimServer. If this isn't possible, you will need to investigate other tagging programs that don't have this limitation on multiple tag values. For example, Mp3tag suports multiple tag values for all tags, using '\\' as the separator.