Questions re Database and Indexing

[simoncn]

(22-12-2013 00:52)Andre Gosselin Wrote:  Thanks a lot for your reply. I think I have learned a lot today about taggging issues, especially about how multiple values are handled by minimserver, and created by my tagging software (unfortunately sometimes in an incorrect manner). I am facing a massive rework of my multiple artist and genre values in my mp3 files. So may I ask a last question, if you don't mind ?
If mp3tag reports the artist tag as the *single* string "artistA/artistB/artistC" and "artistA", "artistB", "artistC" are nonetheless listed individually under the "All Artists" index produced by MinimServer, does that mean that the slashes are the ones you refer to when you write :

Quote:MinimServer never does any splitting, except for tags where splitting is required by the tagging specification. For example, in ID2v2.3, some tag frames separate multiple values using a slash,

Or could it be that mp3tag inaccurately reports the tag value as being a unique string ?
This will help me report the problem to the makers of my tagging software (MediaMonkey to be precise).

Thanks again for your help.

Is this "artistA/artistB/artistC" string part of an ID3v2.3 tag?

If so, it isn't possible for Mp3tag to know whether it's a single artist containing slashes or multiple artists separated by slashes.

The best solution is to to change your tags from ID3v2.3 to ID3v2.4. You can use dbPoweramp to do this. ID3v2.4 doesn't use '/' as a separator, so there is no ambiguity.