Multiple tags delimiter (e.g. Genre or Artist) syntax

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(07-01-2014 09:56)rweten Wrote:  1. I'm not quite clear on whether simply shoving a \\ into my Genre field actually achieves two separate Genre entries for that file. If it does, great; if not, then how do I achieve it? I am using MP3TAG, by the way.

2. I am not looking forward to manually going through my database and changing commas for \\. Can anyone describe to me simply how I could automatically do that in MP3TAG? I'm generally a quick learner at these things but I am not experienced at using things like scripts. A muppet's guide to how to automatically re-tag would be just incredibly helpful.

3. Finally, and just to complicate things a bit, I have been a bit inconsistent about my use of commas as a delimiter. In some places just a comma separates two categories; in other places there is a blank after the comma. Guidance on how to select either ',' or ', ' to be replaced with \\ again very helpful.

With Mp3tag you can easily achieve what you've described. The following steps apply for the latest version of Mp3tag (2.58):

1) Open Mp3tag and load some tracks, select one of the loaded tracks.
2) Open Actions -> Actions
3) In the now opened 'Action groups' window click the top button on the right side to create a new Action group. You can name the group arbitrarily, for example 'splitTags'.
4) In the now opened 'Actions' window click the top button on the right side to create a new Action.
5) Choose 'Split field by separator' and click OK.
6) Now choose the tag whose values you want to split and put just a comma into the 'Separator' field. Mp3tag will take care of leading and trailing blanks automatically. Click OK.
7) Repeat steps 4) to 6) for each tag whose values you want to split.
8) Press OK and close the Actions and Action goups dialogs.
9) Select the files you want to process. Open the Action groups dialog again, select the Action group created in step 3) and click OK.

I recommend to apply this to just a small subset of your library in a first try to see whether you get the expected results.