Searching for special characters in Album Artist

liger_trainer · Post by **liger_trainer** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:44 am

I haven't been using MM3 much so this issue may have been fixed already but...

When I am going through my library trying to clean up artist information e.g.

Artist 1 (feat. Artist 2) or
Artist 1; Artist 2

You get the idea. I am tagging all of my artist fields as

Artist 1/Artist 2 etc.

When I use the search at the top and look for ";" (for example) it doesn't display results from the Album Artist field.

Thank for the help

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:29 pm

That's not a good idea to use special characters in the fields, since if you use auto-organize it will strip them.

liger_trainer · Post by **liger_trainer** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:35 pm

Eyal wrote:That's not a good idea to use special characters in the fields, since if you use auto-organize it will strip them.

I'm not sure why you say that... I use auto organize and I've never had characters removed from the tag - the file name yes, but it replaces it with a "-".

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:43 pm

It's just a general rule of conduct concerning data that can be associated with files.

liger_trainer · Post by **liger_trainer** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:48 pm

Eyal wrote:It's just a general rule of conduct concerning data that can be associated with files.

So, what's the best way to separate multiple artists?

Given this example:

Hollywood Divorce - Outkast (Feat. Lil' Wayne and Snoop Dogg)

Eyal · Post by **Eyal** » Tue May 01, 2007 3:58 pm

There is no "best" way, just follow your logic.

If you have a track named "Artist 1; Artist 2"
and you do Auto-Organize-Files, you'll get: "Artist1- Artist2"
and then back operation with Tag-From-Filenames you'll get the same thing.
In either case you'll loose your special characters.

liger_trainer · Post by **liger_trainer** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:58 am

Which still doesn't address the issue of characters not being picked up by the search...

Mizery_Made · Post by **Mizery_Made** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:37 am

Eyal wrote:There is no "best" way, just follow your logic.

If you have a track named "Artist 1; Artist 2"
and you do Auto-Organize-Files, you'll get: "Artist1- Artist2"
and then back operation with Tag-From-Filenames you'll get the same thing.
In either case you'll loose your special characters.

I use the ';' character & Auto-Organize all the time, have never had ';' replaced in a filename.

As for the search portion, I would be curious in the answer aswell.