Questions re Database and Indexing

[Andre Gosselin]

(21-12-2013 23:04)simoncn Wrote:  

(21-12-2013 20:49)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  If MinimServer never does any splitting (this is a question Simon could throw light on for sure), this may indicate that mp3tag is sometimes wrong when it reports a single artist tag, and that mediamonkey sometimes does not produce correct multiple artist tags when handling semicolon separated lists.

MinimServer never does any splitting, except for tags where splitting is required by the tagging specification. For example, in ID2v2.3, some tag frames separate multiple values using a slash, and in ID3v2.4, most tag frames separate multiple values by a NUL 0x00 character.

If you see a combination of multiple artists in a single entry in the MinimServer All Artists index, this indicates that these artists have been incorrectly combined into a single tag value.

Quote:Is there any system tool which would clearly display the tag structure of a music track ?

Regards

I haven't found one, so I use a hex editor to see what tags are in the file.

Thanks a lot for your reply. I think I have learned a lot today about taggging issues, especially about how multiple values are handled by minimserver, and created by my tagging software (unfortunately sometimes in an incorrect manner). I am facing a massive rework of my multiple artist and genre values in my mp3 files. So may I ask a last question, if you don't mind ?
If mp3tag reports the artist tag as the *single* string "artistA/artistB/artistC" and "artistA", "artistB", "artistC" are nonetheless listed individually under the "All Artists" index produced by MinimServer, does that mean that the slashes are the ones you refer to when you write :

Quote:MinimServer never does any splitting, except for tags where splitting is required by the tagging specification. For example, in ID2v2.3, some tag frames separate multiple values using a slash,

Or could it be that mp3tag inaccurately reports the tag value as being a unique string ?
This will help me report the problem to the makers of my tagging software (MediaMonkey to be precise).

Thanks again for your help.