Inconsistent Multi-Value Splitting with Miscellaneous Artists

[smooveg1]

Hello, it appears as though LMS is treating commas as a multi-value separator, in particular for miscellaneous artists such as lyricists or performers, even when the delimiter is set to be a semi-colon for all tags.

All are cases where the person's name = <First Last, Jr.>. LMS seems to be properly ignoring any comma within artist and albumartist related tags, and I confirmed the UI uses semi-colon as the separator for all tags. I was hoping to find out if this was the desired behavior and what I could do to ensure these types of name is treated as a single artist.

Thank you!

[epoupon]

Hello!
It is supposed to be the same code to parse all these artists (lyricists, composers, album artists, etc.) but there may be some subtle corner cases.
Thanks for reporting, will check this soon.
Could you send an offending file at [email protected]?

[epoupon]

You can also use the lms-metadata tool to confirm the issue or to have a better picture of what is parsed (don't forget to set the custom delimiters you set in the UI)

[smooveg1]

• In Picard, the field in question shows this: performer:guitar [John Goux; Paul Jackson, Jr.]
• UI is set for all multi-value tags to separate by semi-colon ';'
• lms-metadata results:

Parsed metadata
....
139898222124808 [debug] [METADATA] Key = 'PERFORMER:GUITAR', value = 'John Goux'
139898222124808 [debug] [METADATA] Key = 'PERFORMER:GUITAR', value = 'Paul Jackson'
139898222124808 [debug] [METADATA] Key = 'PERFORMER:GUITAR', value = ' Jr.'
....

Interesting that the semi-colon delimiter is being honored properly, ignoring the following space when parsing the next performer. However, the parsing based on the comma separator includes the following space in the next parsed value. I sent the offending file to that email address so you should be able to reproduce.

[epoupon]

Thanks for the info and the file!

[smooveg1]

As a temporary fix I just manually deleted the comma that separates [Last_name, Jr.] in all artist types, that way I don't get any false duplicates between album/track artists and miscellaneous artists with the same name. If tracks get re-tagged through Musicbrainz, it's just a small effort to then manually update my library. Metadata parsing is now operating as expected.

[epoupon]

I will have to dig a bit more but I am afraid it is a bug in taglib