Originally Posted by
garym
when using ";" to separate multiple artists when ripping or converting, dbpa creates separate tag fields for each artist.
For example, if: Willie Nelson; Wynton Marsalis
Then dbpa creates two separate artist tags (at least in some file formats...I see this in my FLAC files):
ARTIST: Willie Nelson
ARTIST: Wynton Marsalis
As spoon notes, some players/music servers can't handle this properly and only show the first artist. In my own case, foobar2000 and LMS/Squeezeboxes all properly recognize the multiple artists tags as created by dbpa.
If you instead enter: Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis
this is not treated as multiple artists. Instead it is treated as a single "artist" that just happens to contain two names:
ARTIST: Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis.