[frankvw]

After spending oodles of time on the Sisyphean effort to Finally Tag All My Music Properly Once And For All <TM> it appears that I have shot myself in the foot big time. I have managed to use tags like

MusicBrainz Album Type = album/compilation/dj-mix

rather than

MusicBrainz Album Type = album / compilation / dj-mix

In other words, I haven't used " / " as a separator (i.e. a space-slash-space sequence as per the wiki) but "/", i.e. a slash without whitespace on either side. My bad. As a result the incorrectly tagged albums do not appear in the right categories.

The item separator can be overridden in advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<musiclibrary>
  <itemseparator> / </itemseparator>
<musiclibrary>


So presumably I can replace the itemseparator with a slash instead of whitespace-slash-whitespace. However, I'm sure there are properly tagged entries as well (i.e. using the whitespace-slash-whitespace sequence) so that may affect those tracks. I seem to remember having noticed that a leading or trailing whitespace character in a genre, album type etc. is interpreted by Kodi as a separate genre (i.e. "disco " is not the same as "disco"). So simply messing around with the itemseparator entry in advancedsettings.xml is likely to break things even more.

Is there a way for my to unshoot my foot and get Kodi to use both "/" and " / " as a separator, or am I going to have to go through 14,000+ files all over again to correct my stuff-ups?

(Update: a Musicbrainz Picard lookup produces multiple tags in yet a different format: album; compilation; dj-mix which is inconsistent with what the wiki says Kodi uses. And indeed it doesn't on my side. What's with that?)

// FvW

[contadino]

Hi frankvw,
which software do you use for tagging your audiofiles? As far as i know it depends on the software which format you have to use.
I use Mp3tag, which works (for me) in a perfect way. This software for example need seperators like this:
album\\compilation\\dj-mix
So you see, different tagging-programs need different formats. But when a file is tagged correctly, every audio-player should recognize the content correct.

[scott967]

I also use mp3tag.  The \\ is an internal mp3tag string used in its logic.  What actually gets written to a tag depends on the tag format.  For example, for FLAC/Xiph tags mp3tag will write separate tags based on the \\.  But for mp3 2.4 tags it will write a "null" into the single tag as a separator.

Mp3 2.3 tags can be an issue, why I use mp3tag to add APE tags and Kodi advanced setting to prefer APE over MP3 in mp3 file format.

The Kodi " / " is mainly intended for use in nfo files.

scott s.
.

[black_eagle]

If you change the separator using AS.xml, it will only affect stuff scanned into the music library after you change it.  It won't make any difference to stuff already scanned in - even if you re-scan it.

It does however change it in the skin.

Before changing it to ~ (tilde)



After changing the itemseparator in AS.xml