Example track: Johnny Cash and June Carter on Johnny Cash's album "Orange Blossom Special." After organizing and tagging in MMW, the tags appear as follows
- Title: It Ain't Me Babe
- Album Artist: Johnny Cash
- Artists: Johnny Cash; June Carter
- Album: Orange Blossom Special
- Genre: Country; Oldies
Now within MMW and MMA the above tags remain unchanged.
However, seemingly anything else used to view the tags (Picard, Windows Explorer, Jaikoz for example) displays the tags in the following manner
- Title: It Ain't Me Babe
- Album Artist: Johnny Cash
- Artists: Johnny Cash/June Carter
- Album: Orange Blossom Special
- Genre: Country; Oldies
Artist New Value: Johnny Cash; June Carter
Artist Original Value: Johnny Cash/June Carter
Apply changes. Subsequent tag viewing in anything but MMW has the semicolon shown as the separator. As soon as I manipulate the track in MMW the Artists field reverts back to forward-slash.
I do have auto-organized enabled. While that should not affect tags, I don't even use the Artist field.
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G:\Audio\Music\$If($Left($RemovePrefix(<Album Artist>),1) >= 0,#,$Left($RemovePrefix(<Album Artist>),1))\$Left(<Album Artist>,50)\$Left(<Album>,50)\<Track#:2> - $If(<Album Artist>=Various Artists,$Left(<Artist>,50),$Left(<Album Artist>,50)) - $Left(<Title>,50)
Store MP3 properties using: ID3v2
ID3v2 text encoding: ASCII + UTF-16 (when needed)
In Picard:
Convert Unicode punctuation characters to ASCII is enabled
Tag Compatibility: ID3v2 version 2.4 (Same results with v2.3 and UTF-16)
ID3v2 Text Encoding: UTF-16 (Same results with UTF-8)
Beyond the annoyance that MMW and other products cannot agree on how the separator is handled in the the Artist field, why is it only affecting Artist and not Genre?
How do I get this to be handled uniformly?