; and / dont work but chatgpt says they should, e.g. ‘John Doe; Jane Doe’ should be seen as two artists but tehyre not and idk why
You’ve done everything correct - the semicolon is how to do it AFAIK.
However, most music players don’t really support multiple artists in id3 tags anymore, I think windows media player is the only exception. Even Plex used to but it doesn’t anymore.
I’ve noticed most songs just put (Ft. Artist1, artist2, artist3) at the end of the track title instead, containing the names/aliases of the other artists involved
I usually put ‘Artist1 & Artist2’ or ‘Artist1, Artist2, & Artist3’, and live with the sad truth that some Artists have multiple entries (‘Artist1’ & ‘Artist1 & Artist2’).
Not sure if you’ll find this helpful: Most player software will prefer the
Album Artistfield overArtistfor sorting in the album view. If there is a feature artist on a specific track, you can fill in the two fields like this:Artist: Artist1 and Artist2andAlbum Artist: Artist1. That will at least keep the entire album together.I already do that for albums and I thought about mentioning it. My problem is that I have a lot of songs outside of albums, where all artists would technically be the album artists.
id3 sounds like a very bottlenecked protocol, why not just allow for multiple artist tags wtf is this
You could consider converting your music library to OGG files. Instead of ID3, those use Vorbis Comments, which do allow multiple artist tags, and are significantly more flexible in general (for better or worse). There’s other advantages, too, like them using less storage space.
However, do mind that even the most flexible standard can’t do more than the music players you use. If those can’t display and filter for multiple artists, you’ll be out of luck.
And OGG is newer / not quite as popular, so it is quite possible that music players don’t support it in full extent.
foss software that supports editing that?
Kid3 supports editing Vorbis Comments, too. 🙂
