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Multiple Artists for FLAC
HumanMediaPostApril 19, 2015, 21:02
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February 17, 2015, 22:38
Normal topicRe: Multiple Artists for FLAC

Brilliant! That fixed it! I would have never guessed that it was one small subversion of the tagging standard.
I just unchecked "Write ID3v2.3" for all filetypes in Preferences, so that they all default to D3v2.4
Elated thanks once again!
sarvajanikPostJune 14, 2018, 23:45
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Hi there,

Apologies for invoking an old thread—but I'm a bit confused about the 'Artist' field.

My collection is primarily Indian music (soundtracks), where every song in the film has multiple artists. Here's a link [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SwCO4RchiYBrb1WGpjBX084gZ82hE7Gk] to a .csv export of one of my albums for your to get a better idea.

I have been curating my entire collection for years now, and have never used the multiple artists delimiter—tried it once, and didn't seem to like the ;;; appearing on my tags. I'd like my artist field to look like the way it does in my .csv file. But I'd like for Yate to identify (& remember) them as individual artists so that they can autofill whenever I'm tagging my new albums. Is that a possibility?

I use the standard comma as my delimiter and in some cases the 'feat.' text does appear too. Like A. R. Rahman feat. Naveen Kumar

I find the guide a bit too confusing and would appreciate if someone could shed some light on how I could achieve this easily. Thanks.
2MR2PostJune 15, 2018, 08:23
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This is and old issue which unfortunately will persist forever. Most artist and other credits fields are initially created by hand. The use of a simple comma is problematic as it is used in lots of ways where the comma is not a credit delimiter.

Most audio formats have the ability to support multiple values for credit fields. Yate supports this. Further, the Combined Credits Manager, with the proper settings, can adjust and remove Featuring and other problematic delimiter sequences replacing them with whatever delimiter you wish. However, and it's a big however, the correct writing of the files require the ability to correctly identify the presence of multiple fields. For this reason Yate employs the multi-field delimiter(;;;) which is a visual representation of what in some cases is binary data in the files. The default of ;;; was chosen as it does not typically occur naturally in the files. While the credit fields may not look great with items separated by ;;; sequences, they will appear correctly in players such as Audirvana Plus, Roon, etc. Further, the proper detection of the multiple fields allows for the correct filling of the Artists, Composers, etc. lists.

In summary, you have to use a multi-value delimiter. Many people have tried using a comma as the multi-field delimiter and unfortunately the attempt always fails. For example:

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

is typically considered as a single credit name. Not as three or four. It gets even worse if there is a guest performer.

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, guest

The above won't work but the following will:

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young;;;guest

I know that this is not the answer you were hoping for, but it is what it is.

Now....if you're only concerned with the Autofilling, I can conceivably add an option to split the fields when accumulating them for lists. More than likely on the same Value Delimiters which can be set for the Combined Credits Manager. That would mean that you could keep the same visual format you now employ, but the lists would be more decomposed. Hmm....
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