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How to use slash in Album Artist

Hiya.

I was wondering is it possible and how to use slash in the Album Artist field. I mean, I manually tag all my music and when I come across a split album, I want to tag the Album Artist as "Artist 1 / Artist 2". And naturally in the Artist Name field I just use Artist 1 or Artist 2. Now, when I do this my foobar automatically changes the field as "Artist 1; Artist 2". I know this is all very trivial but I'm a bit of a list-geek and it's all about getting the correct album form in last.fm. And peace of mind.

All help is greatly appreciated (preferably step-by-step since I really suck with computers). Sorry if this is in the wrong place or just plain stupid.

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #1 –
The ID3v2 standard reserves the slash character as a delimiter for multiple-value fields. Except for very specific cases (e.g., the band AC/DC), that is how foobar2000 will interpret a slash in the Album Artist field.

The best solution may be to consider a different tagging convention if you want to store multiple artist names as a single value, such as using an ampersand (i.e., "Artist 1 & Artist 2").

Personally, I prefer conventions similar to those used at Musicbrainz, which means multiple-artist albums get tagged with either the nominal/"official" release artist or "Various Artists" in the Album Artist field.

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #2 –
Do you need that very slash, or merely one that looks like a slash? Like, could you try the division slash ∕ ?

I wouldn't just use a single ampersand (because that occurs in artist monikers), but what about a double or triple?

(Whoever decided to sabotage AC/DC should serve at the pillory. I mean, it need not be worse than a double slash.)

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #3 –
Why not tag 'ALBUM ARTIST = Artist1; Artist 2' and simply change what gets fed to last.fm on the corresponding component's options panel? Same with any visualization within foobar.
Code: [Select]
$meta_sep(album artist, / )

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #4 –
foobar interprets the character sequence " / " as a delimiter in some multi-value tags as a compromise so that (album) artists such as AC/DC are not incorrectly split.

If Daeron's suggestion will work for you, it's probably the simplest solution to your problem.

If you don't want the ALBUM ARTIST tag to be multi-value, you can try removing it from the "Multivalue fields" settings at File > Preferences > Advanced > Display > Properties dialog. I assume it will cause foobar to treat the tag as a single-value tag regardless of how you format it; however, if the files are MP3s and you tried to split the tag afterward, it might cause foobar to rewrite the tag values to TXXX frames instead of the TPE2 frame. This is all conjecture on my part as I've never attempted what I'm describing.

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #5 –
Thanks a bunch guys. I've used ampersand or plus before, but in my opinion regular slash is the only correct form for split albums. Talk about minor problems.

I'll try what Daeron described once I find where to change the code. Not very good with these.

How to use slash in Album Artist

Reply #6 –
Assuming you are using the audioscrobbler component, then 'File/Preferences/Tools/Audioscrobbler/Field remappings/Artist'. Guess you may want to decide whether you want to use ALBUM ARTIST or just ARTIST. For last.fm it's probably better if you submit the latter:
Code: [Select]
$meta_sep(artist, / )

Tagging your files as 'ALBUM ARTIST=Artist1; Artist2' will also mean that they will, by default show up as 'Artist1, Artist2' everywhere in foobar and you will have to adjust every panel's options to use the code i gave you, again, either using ALBUM ARTIST or ARTIST depending on what you want to show in each view.

Might be helpful:
http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title...28name.2Csep.29