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Questions / Multiple artists in M4A files

« on: July 13, 2025, 02:07:28 PM »

I edit multiple artists using the Grid UI/Multiple Artist Splitter subwindow in MusicBee for my M4A files.
This works great within MusicBee itself, but in all mobile apps (BlackPlayer, Symfonium) and streaming servers that I use (Jellyfin, Navidrome) only the first artist seems to be displayed.
In Mp3tag, multiple artists seem to use  `\\` as delimiter. Changing this to `;` seems to work out for Navidrome.
(For genres, on the other hand, I directly format using `;` delimiters in MusicBee. This works just out-of-the-box in Symfonium, Navidrome, etc.)
In MusicBrainz Picard, multiple artists seem to use `;` as delimiter, though.
In ffprobe, the "artist" tag seems to map to the last artist.

Is there an easy way of achieving some consistency without having to edit every M4A file? Or are there other mobile apps and streaming servers that are more 1-1 to MusicBee wrt their M4A file handling.

Edit: when inspecting the extended tags in Mp3tag, there are multiple ARTIST tags for the original files. For the files where I replaced `\\` with `;` (from within Mp3tag), there is only one ARTIST tag (e.g., foo; bar).

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Bug Reports / Re: Language tag separated into multiples, but doesn't show up on main panel

« on: November 21, 2023, 08:22:41 AM »

Thank you for the quick fix! Works like a charm.

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Questions / Album series

« on: November 20, 2023, 07:24:09 PM »

I am currently using
* the Grouping tag to specify album types (e.g., Studio, Single, Compilation, etc.);
* the Set Subtitle tag to group tracks within the same album (e.g., Act I, Bonus, B-Sides, etc.);
* the Media Type tag to specify the physical medium (e.g., Cassette, CD, Digital Media, etc.).
How does one typically specify album series in order to group different albums (e.g.,  Fargo Year 1 to 4, ‎Punk Goes Pop Vol. 1 to 7, etc.)?
Is there a physical tag (all my tracks are M4A files with AAC encoding) designated for or close to this specific purpose?

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Bug Reports / Re: Language tag separated into multiples, but doesn't show up on main panel

« on: November 20, 2023, 07:08:40 PM »

This functionality last worked in version 3.5.8447.
This functionality broke since version 3.5.8698 (latest version as of writing).

Going to Music Explorer for the Now Playing song with multiple languages directs to the corresponding multi-language panel. I cannot recall the original behavior, but this seems correct to me as opposed to selecting only one language. (It is, however, worth noting that one cannot go to a multi-language panel directly via the navigator afaik. The navigator only lists separate languages.)


Selecting a language in the navigator only shows albums containing at least one song in the given language only. In the below image, the navigator indicates that one album contains a song in Mandarin, but no album is listed, because the actual song is in English and Mandarin. This has changed between the aforementioned versions.