1148 SEVERE ';' mess-ups* are written back to file...

[chrisjj]

... when a tag is edited EVEN IF the tag edited was not the one containing the messed-up ';'.

E.g. If I edit the title of a track with Artist = XXX;YYY, MM rewrites the Artist tag on disc to XXX; YYY i.e. adds a space.

It is really poor for MM to corrupt my standard use of ';' just because of its non-standard use of ';' as a value separator. Please, please, please fix this ASAP!

* http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27939

[Teknojnky]

yea its really annoying for artists such as à;GRUMH... which have semi-colon as part of the name.

Not ony does it show up as 2 separate artists, it adds the space making it

à; GRUMH... instead of à;GRUMH...

btw, this is not really a new behaviour, its been there since mm3 out and multi-item fields were supported.

[tunesmith]

I agree. ID3 tags are plain text. Applying special meaning to particular characters is bound to cause problems for users especially when it silently modifies tag data. I ~do~ think there are users that will benefit from this feature but, it's safer to have it configurable with the default off.

Excellent example Teknojnky.

[spacefish]

Again, another reason why multi-field support for multiple values would be beneficial. An artist like à;GRUMH... would get its own field and thereby be treated as it should. Separating should be done in the background, not at the user level.

[jiri]

I started a new thread with some related info here.

Jiri

[chrisjj]

Update: see http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=147751.