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    Filename & Restricted characters

    hi,
    I have upgraded to 16.6 and I have a problem with the restricted characters.
    I have made it so that the ; is replaced with a ,

    ( mainly this is need in the artist & the composer tags )

    on doing this I get a / instead of the , in iTunes

    pls find attached screen shots2019-01-26.png2019-01-26 (1).png

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    I believe Filename Restricted Characters only affects the filename and not your tags.

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by mville View Post
    I believe Filename Restricted Characters only affects the filename and not your tags.
    That has been my experience, and I use the restricted characters in my tags, though using the restricted characters in post editing, is problematic.
    Last edited by Oggy; 01-27-2019 at 08:25 AM.

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    ';' is a special character in the Tags for dBpoweramp, it separates multiple artists, when written to ID Tags it is written correctly for the tag format (such as / for ID3 tags).

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by mville View Post
    I believe Filename Restricted Characters only affects the filename and not your tags.
    Yes, I thought so too !!
    it was all going well ti,, v16.5 .. the this ... pls could you go thru both the screen shots & see if I may have typed a wrong character to be replaced by an incorrect one ...

    thanks

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    ';' is a special character in the Tags for dBpoweramp, it separates multiple artists, when written to ID Tags it is written correctly for the tag format (such as / for ID3 tags).
    yes, this is exactly where I get the problem.
    do you think I should leave the setting to default and make the changes manually to separates multiple artists ??

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by Oggy View Post
    That has been my experience, and I use the restricted characters in my tags, though using the restricted characters in post editing, is problematic.
    correct ... my comments are on the above 2 reply

    thanks for your time

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    What audio type do you rip to?

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    What audio type do you rip to?
    hi,
    most of the time in AIFF.
    very rarely in ALAC

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Add the DSP effect 'ID Tag Processing' on the Manipulation tab select:

    Multiple Artists to 'Artist1; Artist2' for non multiple artist aware programs

    iTunes is not compatible with multiple artists.

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    Add the DSP effect 'ID Tag Processing' on the Manipulation tab select:

    Multiple Artists to 'Artist1; Artist2' for non multiple artist aware programs

    iTunes is not compatible with multiple artists.
    hi, Mr Spoon,
    apologies for the delay in reply.

    just to clarify : after i do the above, sugested by you, can i make the ";" to be replaced by "," in the "Tag & filename" settings ??

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    No, they would be presented with ; between them.

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Quote Originally Posted by Spoon View Post
    No, they would be presented with ; between them.
    hi, Mr Spoon,

    is this correct ( as per the screen shot, attached2019-02-04.png ) ??

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    Re: Filename & Restricted characters

    Yes

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