Revisiting the Artist and All Artists Index

[paultaylor]

(25-11-2023 13:52)simoncn Wrote:  The ID3v2.3 spec allows this for TPE1 (artist, separated with '/') but not TPE2 (album artist).

This is probably right intepretation, from the ID3v23 spec

Quote:TPE1
The ‘Lead artist(s)/Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)/Performing group’ is used for the main artist(s). They are seperated with the “/” character.
TPE2
The ‘Band/Orchestra/Accompaniment’ frame is used for additional information about the performers in the recording.

TPE2 doesnt even define the concept of an album artist, but it has been used for as that for a long time. But since ID2v24 support multiple strings for all text frames

Quote:The text information frames are often the most important frames, containing information like artist, album and more. There may only be one text information frame of its kind in an tag. All text information frames supports multiple strings, stored as a null separated list, where null is reperesented by the termination code for the charater encoding. All text frame identifiers begin with “T”. Only text frame identifiers begin with “T”, with the exception of the “TXXX” frame. All the text information frames have the following format:

and it was released way back in November 1, 2000

So this restriction of IDv23 does not need to drive current thinking.