Multiple value delimiter

[alan9990]

(14-03-2026 13:20)simbun Wrote:  

(14-03-2026 12:46)alan9990 Wrote:  Oh, this is brilliant! Thank you. So much clearer now... Oh, I will be busy today

I would definitely say this is for the advanced/OCD user, so practise on a couple of albums and feel free to ask any questions.

(14-03-2026 12:53)alan9990 Wrote:  My (arbitrary, let's call it) decision years ago to split album artists with the | was only so that my player at the time would find content under either album artist.

In their default configuration, Mp3tag and MusicBrainz Picard incorrectly tag multiple albumartists/artists too!

well, since you invited me to, I will just ensure that I completely understand something:

from your above, you seem to be saying that if I use ; as the separator and despite I now see that whatever I subsequently do, only ONE artist can/should be displayed under Albumartist (so far so good), nevertheless the use of ; means that at least this string can be separated into two distinct Album artists, as opposed to | or / and which simply read as a single string.

The reason I ask is firstly to understand of course, but it then begs the question that since I am going to need to find a programmatic way of retagging (over 7000 albums) once I am settled on my preferences, in fact were I to simply omit any and all "double naming", the issue wouldn't even occur!

So I'd have lost the ability to link the album artist to one of the joint artists, but in any event I'd still be able to search and play the album... because it's a database.

End of the day, this whole DAC/streaming/control point model is clearly the way forward for me, so I don't see any need to worry about changing a decade old paradigm just because "it's what I've always done"