Composer Tagging: The Best Method?, Moved from CD Hardware/Software Options

[Antigen]

Hi,

my question is very simple.

Some CD Songs have two or three COMPOSER, when I use my CD Ripper I can include the information of the COMPOSER TAG into the FLAC file.

What do you suggest for SEPARATOR?

----> / (for example Carmichel / Washington)

or

----> , (for example Carmichel, Washington)


What is the better solution, for compatibility and other possible issue? What is the better solution for the MP3 Player tagging management system? (or is indifferent)

Thanks very much


P.S: I have see that FREEDB use , and MusicBrainz use the /

[southisup]

I've always been confused by multi-value tagging & have ended up avoiding it as a result - I just always use commas now, because no software (that I've come across) recognises those as seperators.

The problem is multiple.

1. Different formats allow different fields to be or not to be multi-value.
2. Different software allow different formats to have different multi-value fields.
3. Different tagging software recognise different characters as indicators that you intend multi-values.
4. Different players display multi-value fields in different ways - seperate rows, single forward slash, double back slash, semi-colon...
5. Different library managers handle multi-value fields differently - combined listing, seperate listings, both...

It's the sort of problem sometimes 'solved' with one of those huge wikipedia comparison tables, which possibly have all the information in, but hardly anyone can even fit on their screen, let alone actually get their heads around.

Or have I been psychologically damaged by an early experience, & someone will come along now & make it all seem simple?

Don't get me wrong, this discussion has helped. A lot. Thanks! But I still don't think I'm about to start using them. I guess one thing that would greatly help me would be a way to quickly see (in foobar2000, for me) which tracks have multi-value fields, & which tags they are. Then I could experiment & get to grips with it in my own time.

And am I mixing fields & tags up?

This post has been edited by southisup: Mar 16 2012, 21:49

[db1989]

I guess one thing that would greatly help me would be a way to quickly see (in foobar2000, for me) which tracks have multi-value fields, & which tags they are.

Use $meta_num(field).
For example:

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$ifgreater($meta_num(field),0,$ifgreater($meta_num(field),1,%field% has multiple values,%field% has a single value),%field% is absent)

And am I mixing fields & tags up?

A tag is the entire block of metadata. A field is one piece of information therein.
However, many people and sources (some of whom should know better!) do get the two mixed up, often using the word tag to refer to a single field.

This post has been edited by db1989: Mar 17 2012, 00:32