Multiple Artists

[Caipion]

If i rip a cd with dbpowermap which includes multiple artists on a track the tag will be split with \\ as a seperate artist.
Perfecttunes recommends always to split with ";" and not \\.In this case there ist only one artist.

Both are working with Assetupnp ans Musicbee.

What is the best solution and why is it not the same in these applications ?

[Dat Ei]

Re: Multiple Artists

Multiple artists are stored in separate binary fields. "; " and "\\" are two different ways how different programs represent a delimiter in the GUI. dBpoweramp and PerfectTunes use the delimiter ";".

Dat Ei

[garym]

Re: Multiple Artists

Multiple artists are stored in separate binary fields. "; " and "" are two different ways how different programs represent a delimiter in the GUI. dBpoweramp and PerfectTunes use the delimiter ";".

Dat Ei

Yes, for example, if I use ";" as the delimiter in dbpoweramp when ripping, if I open these files in mp3tag, the delimiter shows as '\\' (two back slashes). But it all works as expected. Both of these delimiters are somewhat artificial for the software in use. In either case, at least for FLAC files with two artists, two different fields get written, with each field containing one of the two artists.

[Caipion]

Re: Multiple Artists

I only got the free version of perfecttunes which shows the ";".
Just to get it right.If a got the full version of perfecttunes and let the programm do the split (Which ist displayed ";") it would be like two different artist in the tag in mp3tag ?
In this case its just a visual thing.

Example:

Artist: Missy Elliott feat. LilKim

Perfecttunes will suggest the change to Missy Elliott; LilKim.I have done this change with mp3 tag.In this case it will be one artist inside the id tag of the flac file.
But it will work perfectly fine with Musicbee and Assetupnp because the software knows the ";" is a delimiter.

If I understand you correctly, perfecttunes will not just insert ";" as a separator in the artist tag but instead put a second artist in the tag like dbpoweramp ?

[garym]

Re: Multiple Artists

If I understand you correctly, perfecttunes will not just insert ";" as a separator in the artist tag but instead put a second artist in the tag like dbpoweramp ?

correct. the ";" is just the code to tell PerfectTunes or dbpoweramp to create separate tag fields for multivalue capable fields (such as ARTIST). You can see this when you look at at file's tags (at least FLAC). You'll see the multiple artists listed separately as multiple ARTIST fields.

[Caipion]

Re: Multiple Artists

Perfect

Thank you all for your support

[miggs]

Re: Multiple Artists

When ripping to ALAC I have used 'artist 1 ; artist 2' to seperate multiple artists. When I load the ALAC tracks into iTunes, the second artist is completely ignored. iTunes only displays the first artist. So I am having to go back and change all of the tracks back to 'Artist 1 Feat. Artist 2'.

Does anyone know of a program similar to iTunes that supports multiple artists correctly?

[garym]

Re: Multiple Artists

foobar2000

https://www.foobar2000.org/

[GBrown]

Re: Multiple Artists

When ripping to ALAC I have used 'artist 1 ; artist 2' to seperate multiple artists. When I load the ALAC tracks into iTunes, the second artist is completely ignored. iTunes only displays the first artist. So I am having to go back and change all of the tracks back to 'Artist 1 Feat. Artist 2'.

Does anyone know of a program similar to iTunes that supports multiple artists correctly?

If the artists are not truly separated into two separate fields, then iTunes should display it as "Artist 1; Artist 2". But iTunes cannot show multiple fields, so if these have actually been split, then you are correct, only "Artist 1" will be displayed. However the tags still exist, just the second (or more) are ignored by iTunes.

On Windows, Foober and MusicBee will show and use the extra tag values in fields like Artist, AlbumArtist, Composer, and Genre.
For Android you can use GoneMAD or Poweramp as they both have support for the same multi-value fields, but not in Foobar mobile.
Not sure if there any for MacOS.
On IOS, good luck.

[IdrisRoberts]

Re: Multiple Artists

I use a combination of 3, TagScanner, Mp3tag, PerfectTUNES.
Each is not perfect for every task, but all 3 have their own uses. TagScanner is very good at integration with online sites,(Discogs etc) and can embed images into the file and has a wide variety of metadata fields.