2014-01-19, 10:54
As far as I am aware, at present there is no way to have XBMC separate tags (artist is the main concern, but this does apply to all tags) where both ", " and " & " should be used as separators. iTunes generally lists multiple artists in this manner. Beatport all artists with ", " and Google Play Music separates all artists with " & ".
Examples:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/pressu...d504586866
http://www.beatport.com/release/mammoth/1049114
https://play.google.com/store/music/albu...umyq&hl=en
Support of both ", " and " & " simultaneously would allow music from all these sources (and likely others) to be imported correctly.
The only solution I have been able to find is to edit the tags so that only a single item separator is used, and then specify that item separator in advancedsettings.xml. Not only is this tedious, but it causes issues with other applications that require the artist tag to match another database exactly. I've also tried creating Album.nfo files with multiple artists as described in 1.1.2 of http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/Music, but this didn't appear to have any effect after removing and re-adding the files in question.
The simplest solution I can think of is adding support for specifying multiple itemseparators in advancedsettings.xml, but I don't know how complicated this would be to do.
Examples:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/pressu...d504586866
http://www.beatport.com/release/mammoth/1049114
https://play.google.com/store/music/albu...umyq&hl=en
Support of both ", " and " & " simultaneously would allow music from all these sources (and likely others) to be imported correctly.
The only solution I have been able to find is to edit the tags so that only a single item separator is used, and then specify that item separator in advancedsettings.xml. Not only is this tedious, but it causes issues with other applications that require the artist tag to match another database exactly. I've also tried creating Album.nfo files with multiple artists as described in 1.1.2 of http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=NFO_files/Music, but this didn't appear to have any effect after removing and re-adding the files in question.
The simplest solution I can think of is adding support for specifying multiple itemseparators in advancedsettings.xml, but I don't know how complicated this would be to do.
