Genre tagging: using available tag and order sorting

[simbun]

(24-03-2026 18:17)alan9990 Wrote:  I thought that the ID3v2.4 standard, as opposed to ID3v2.3, allows ANY valid tag field to use a NUL separator??

Did I get this wrong?

The ID3v2.4 standard does accept multiple values in any field, but MinimServer only accepts a single value in AbumArtist.

To add multiple values to an ID3v2.4 file through the kid3 gui you need to enter:

Code:

Artist: Artist 1|Artist2|Band A

To add multiple values to a FLAC file you need to enter it into kid3 as separate entries:

Code:

Artist: Artist 1
Artist: Artist 2
Artist: Band A

You're making it harder for yourself by using kid3. Is there a reason you can't use Puddletag?

(22-03-2026 10:11)simbun Wrote:  Have you tried Puddletag? To instruct Puddletag to create multivalued tags you need to delimit the list with '\\' e.g. Artist1\\Artist2. I've no personal experience with it but have seen it recommended on other forums.

EDIT: It looks like puddletag will be able to "convert" your pipe delimited tags to proper multivalued too: https://docs.puddletag.net/source/functi...-separator

I spent a bit of time with it after writing the post and it's actually really nice.