(Album) Artist separators

[Dat Ei]

Hey there,

a good user interface of a program allows you to escape / mask any character you want, even though the UI has defined some special characters like here for entering and editing delimiters. For OS this task is a complete different beast, cause in the representation of i.e. a path you can't tell if "AC/DC" is the name of a folder named "AC/DC" or if "DC" is the subfolder of the folder "AC". Same problems with ".", ".." or "". So OSs are often limited to keep the UI userfriendly.


Dat Ei

[GBrown]

Hey there,
a good user interface of a program allows you to escape / mask any character you want, even though the UI has defined some special characters like here for entering and editing delimiters. For OS this task is a complete different beast, cause in the representation of i.e. a path you can't tell if "AC/DC" is the name of a folder named "AC/DC" or if "DC" is the subfolder of the folder "AC". Same problems with ".", ".." or "". So OSs are often limited to keep the UI userfriendly.

Agreed for folder and file names, and can be fixed using validation when saving files. But this limiation should not extend to metadata tag fields. Using WMP still breaks when using names like AC/DC as the artist field. Not that I have used WMP any time in the last decade or so.

[MarkSealey]

simbun, Spoon, vilsen, garym, @GBrown

Many, many thanks!

Once again (it happens almost every time I come here to ask a question; I do hope I can so readily answer others’ questions and be of as much help as all of you are once day soon), I have learnt a lot. And I have my answer!

Now I can see that (and how - thanks to the ever-patient Barry, developer of Yate) it does indeed use the correct delimiters and store multiple values of both ‘Artist’ and ‘Album Artist’ separately. Then uses ‘;;;’ to display them.

Opening a FLAC file in BBEdit revealed just what you said it would, simbun… thanks for taking the time and trouble to show me how, and the results in hexdump.

Your guidance on the three different formats - especially a single semi-colon in dBpoweramp - extremely helpful, vilsen.

All set :-)