[fional]

I sorted through my MP3 collection, using Media Monkey, which separates Genre Tags using ";"

I went into my advancedsettings and I added this:

<musiclibrary>
<itemseparator>; </itemseparator> <!-- separator used for multiple artists/genres in tags. Note, this is *space* *slash* *space* -->
</musiclibrary>

I also tried <itemseparator> ; </itemseparator>

However, it does not seem to be separating the different genres.

I am using a Frodo nightly and Aeon Nox 4.0

I'm sure I'm doing something completely daft.

[sialivi]

Oddly enough I'm not having quite the same results as you even though I also use the latest Frodo nightly, Media Monkey and "; " as the separator.

For me the genres separate correctly, but artists does not.

[fional]

Oddly enough I'm not having quite the same results as you even though I also use the latest Frodo nightly, Media Monkey and "; " as the separator.

For me the genres separate correctly, but artists does not.

Now I'm puzzled.

I have ran update and clean - the only thing I can think is perhaps the database isn't being compltely refreshed, so basically I have legacy genres that existed before I added the itemseparator? I've no idea if that even makes sound sense.

[leepenny]

not sure if this helps but are you separating the genres with a space between the semi colon?
I use / as a separator but have to use spaces between - same for artists

eg. pop / soul / acoustic
eg. emeli sande / professor green

I only say this because the first advanced setting you added Fional looks correct - its the same as mine ,except obviously I use forward slash and have no issues here
(I use mp3tag though)
(And not using Frodo)

[fional]

Ah yes, I noticed the wiki was quite clear it was space stroke space.

I'd have like Folk; Folk Rock

So I figured the seperator would be "; "

I also, for a laugh, tried " ; "

But now I'm wondering that since the ; is attached to the word previous, perhaps XBMC is unable to parse it as it is looking for a whole word.

So that may be it. I'm going to go try that now and if that is the issue, then I'll definitely report back!

[fional]

That was it.

Putting "; " isn't good enough.

So having something like "Folk Rock; Folk" in the mp3 tag isn't going to work. Even if you set the separator up as "; ".

That is because it's expecting the ; to be a whole word (I'm guessing).

Media Monkey doesn't let you separate tags with space semicolon space

I went into MP3Tag and added the space, so now the genre looks like "Folk Rock ; Folk"

and it worked.

[leepenny]

Always glad to help

[scott967]

Deleted due to some bad/insufficient info on MP3(ID3.2) tags.

scott s.
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[deubeul]

Hello,

I'm having the same problem here.
Is there a workaround to avoid retagging my complete flac collection ?

It's a bit annoying...i have a very large collection, and in eden my tags appears correctly, and in all the other soft i use (mediamonkey, musicbee, sonos...)

Sorry for my bad english.

Thanks for any help.

[deubeul]

Up !

[scott967]

There was another poster had a problem that sounds similar. I think he found out it was due to having both "mp3-style" tags (ID3 2.3) and "Flac-style" tags (Vorbis comments) in .flac files. It seems some changes were made in tag reading for Frodo that didn't like these tags any more. I think he found that removing the ID3 tags solved his problems. I don't think "separator" should be an issue for specification-compliant flac tags, as the spec says you only use FIELDNAME=value and when you want multiple values (for example genre) you simple repeat FIELDNAME=value1, FIELDNAME=value2, etc. It's up to the tag reader to figure out what to do (spec says either keep all as "multi-value" or keep the last occurrence).

scott s.
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[deubeul]

Thanks scott,

Thought my flac are tagged with id3v2.3 via mediamonkey....
I know where to search now, thanks again.