Issue with Separator ; Between Windows - MusicBee

[Raphi73]

Hello MusicBee Community!

Im new to this so I hope Im not doing anything wrong...

My Problem:
Window separates Artists of a Title by semicolon ;
To have separated artists in MusicBee, MB also uses a semicolon to separate. So that would work perfectly, BUT when I add a title with multiple artists separated by windows with a semicolon, MB turns it the semicolon to a slash / and wont se the artists as multiple separated artists.

https://imgur.com/HRzLaQj

I hope you can understand what I mean
Is there a fix for this?

[vincent kars]

Window separates Artists of a Title by semicolon ;

It helps if you are a bit more specific. You are using a Windows utility (file Explorer?) to alter tags.
Observe that the ; is not a delimiter in case of multiple values. In fact depending on the tagging schema the delimiter will be different.
Some tagging schemas even don't use a delim at alle, the simply write a seperate tag for each instance.
See https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112634.0.html for some examples.

If the utility you are using is not aware of these different conventions, you just add plain text.
Solutions:
Do your edit inside Musicbee, regardless of the tagging schema, it will translate it to the appropriate format.
If you edit outside Musicbee, use a tagger that is audio aware e.g. MP3Tag.

[Raphi73]

It helps if you are a bit more specific. You are using a Windows utility (file Explorer?) to alter tags.
Observe that the ; is not a delimiter in case of multiple values. In fact depending on the tagging schema the delimiter will be different.
Some tagging schemas even don't use a delim at alle, the simply write a seperate tag for each instance.
See https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,112634.0.html for some examples.

If the utility you are using is not aware of these different conventions, you just add plain text.
Solutions:
Do your edit inside Musicbee, regardless of the tagging schema, it will translate it to the appropriate format.
If you edit outside Musicbee, use a tagger that is audio aware e.g. MP3Tag.

Hello and thank you for your anwer! Yes, I used Windows explorer to tag my music mostly. I am using MusicBee for only a month. Thats why it would be hard to edit all the files in MusicBee now. I actually still cant see why MusicBee doesnt recognize that by itself. It obviously does know, that there are multiple artist in a song, because it is uses a delimiter correctly. It just doesnt use the correct one to actually separate the artists by itself. Thats whats irritating me.

[Mayibongwe]

Yes, I used Windows explorer to tag my music mostly. I am using MusicBee for only a month. Thats why it would be hard to edit all the files in MusicBee now.

I have no idea why MusicBee does that, but I can offer a solution:

Select all the tracks with multi-value tags that MusicBee has now separted by a forward slash /
Then go to Tools > Tagging Tools > Search and Replace...

Search for "/" (without the quotes)
Select the <artist> field
Replace with "; "

By doing that, MusicBee will update the values accordingly.
Then going forward, to make ur life easier, just do your tag editing using MusicBee itself.

[The Incredible Boom Boom]

It just doesnt use the correct one to actually separate the artists by itself. Thats whats irritating me.

MusicBee is following the most convenient and approved way of delimiting multiple artists - a null character. It's representation to the user is a semicolon, but it is not actually the character code for a semicolon.

@Mayibongwe's advice of mass changing your files with MusicBee not editing them in File Explorer is your best course of action.