fixed in 3.0.1.1116 RC4.

-Rusty

I agree, at some point with you.
Using ";" is most common separator and most apps that i have tested it and fully support Multiple values in fields uses ";" as separator and separate it internally.

We will certainly revise things that work correctly and seek ways how to improve it. I noted this for revision in post 3.0 versions.

That is an understandable reason. Still, is there no way to support both formats? Even if they can not be both supported simultaneously might there be a way to allow the user to decide which he would prefer. I currently have ~5000 CDs ripped using the multi-artist format, and I like Media Monkey enough to have seriously considered using a script to change all my tags to the less correct semi-colon format just so I can continue using it. Wouldn't you agree that this seems like a crazy thing for me to have to do and sacrifice so that the users of Cowon iAudio X5 have less compatibility problems?

We know of that "problem".

Mainly we left it to sync with [b]ARTIST = x; y[/b] due to some noticeable problems with hardware devices which read only first or last Artist.

like [url=http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/info_features.html#specifications]Cowon iAudio X5[/url]

Might I please, please convince someone to fix the way MM3 uses FLAC tags to accomodate the correct multi-artist format; the way it is clearly specified in the official FLAC documentation. For reference, the documentation can be found at http://flac.sourceforge.net/, and an implemented example of the format is used by Foobar2000.

Specifically, the tag should be in the from:
ARTIST = x
ARTIST = y

rather than
ARTIST = x; y .

If anyone has Foobar2000 and wants to take a look can open the 'preferences' window and navigate through the tree to the 'advanced-display-properties' node. Here you will see ARTIST among all the fields that are able to be assigned more than one value. MM3 is not actually accomodating this true multi-artist, multi-value format. Correct me if I am wrong, but MM3 is just assigning a single text string that is built by concatenating all the artist names and then artificially seperating them with semi-colons.

This really doesn't seem like a difficult problem to correct. If there is any way for me to assist I'll gladly help out.