AliasTags and Artists

[hvaleton]

(27-05-2013 20:37)simoncn Wrote:  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.

Hi Simon,

Thanks again for your prompt reply!

As I said I'd do, I have just investigated MM's behaviour with multiple tag values a little further.
I found out that MM does support multiple tag values for at least the following tags (probably others as well, but this is what I found so far in a rather hit and miss fashion, again using PSPad to see the actual "under water" tags):
Artist
Genre (the next stop in this quest for a perfect collection!)
Composer
Conductor
Album Artist (stored as both multiples instances of ALBUM ARTIST and ENSEMBLE)
Tempo
Mood
Occasion
Quality
Original Artist

Strangely enough no-one on the web seems to bother about MM's behaviour with multiple tag values (other than the Artist tag), at least I could not google anything significant. Also, in MM's preferences I have not found any setting that influences the way mutliple value tags are actually stored.
So I assume I just have to accept it the way it is, because I'd hate to part with MM. From what I've seen of Mp3tag, it simply does not not fit the bill.

Next, I tested with semicolon separated artists in Original Artist, using
aliasTags:
Original Artist:Artist
Artist:nil
and, as you suggested, this works fine!

By the way: Would it be possible to add an index tag called "Instrument" or some such and be able to drill down a Composer's concertos via
Composer Mendelssohn -> Genre: Concerto -> Instrument: Violin
?

Thanks once again
(this tagging business is starting to be fun!)

Hans Valeton