by DukeMargiris » Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:31 pm
I too created an account just for this exact issue. While testing nearly a dozen different MP3 playing apps recently they all have the exact same issue in that they just don't process multiple tags no matter what delimiter is used.
MediaMonkey is no different. It's actually frustratingly inconsistent since it handles multiple genres separated by a ';' delimiter but not multiple artists. Example: Nashville Skyline is a Bob Dylan album I have with both a country and folk genre. No problem showing up in both in MMA. But one song is a duet between Dylan and Johnny Cash. No matter how I separate the two, whether a slash, a semicolon, a comma, anything, it will still show 'Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash' as a separate artist from both, as though they had been combined into some sort of bizarre mutant mumbler. The craziest part is that in the view it will convert a semicolon to a slash. So it's somehow recognizing this is a delimiter that should be displayed different, but doesn't recognize the entire purpose of why it's there in the first place?
There are countless programs that can handle fields with multiple values, but for some reason music app developers just can't create a simple, workable solution for this. Enough of my complaining, anybody have any real solutions? These threads on other forums for other apps just go around in circles without any resolution. Is there anyone out there who is using MediaMonkey-or any other player, really-that is getting their multiple artist tags to work correctly?
I too created an account just for this exact issue. While testing nearly a dozen different MP3 playing apps recently they all have the exact same issue in that they just don't process multiple tags no matter what delimiter is used.
MediaMonkey is no different. It's actually frustratingly inconsistent since it handles multiple genres separated by a ';' delimiter but not multiple artists. Example: Nashville Skyline is a Bob Dylan album I have with both a country and folk genre. No problem showing up in both in MMA. But one song is a duet between Dylan and Johnny Cash. No matter how I separate the two, whether a slash, a semicolon, a comma, anything, it will still show 'Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash' as a separate artist from both, as though they had been combined into some sort of bizarre mutant mumbler. The craziest part is that in the view it will convert a semicolon to a slash. So it's somehow recognizing this is a delimiter that should be displayed different, but doesn't recognize the entire purpose of why it's there in the first place?
There are countless programs that can handle fields with multiple values, but for some reason music app developers just can't create a simple, workable solution for this. Enough of my complaining, anybody have any real solutions? These threads on other forums for other apps just go around in circles without any resolution. Is there anyone out there who is using MediaMonkey-or any other player, really-that is getting their multiple artist tags to work correctly?