[ID3 Dev] escape "/" character

[Daniel Önnerby]

that's what I was afraid of :(
Although, AC/DC seem to be the only artist with this problem, so it's 
not much of a deal.  I think our benefits of splitting the artists by 
the "/" separator is greater since many people seem to have tagged the 
artists this way, so they will have to deal with the fact that there 
will be both AC and DC artists (or we make this a special case) :)
Writing our tags will not be a problem since we will write 2.4 tags.

It's strange that there aren't more taggers/players that support 
multiple artists and genres. There are several songs out there with 
guest artists that you would like to find when listing the artists.

Thank you for your reply!

Best regards
Daniel

Ben Bennett wrote:
> Nasty question.
>
> 2.4 defines a sane way to do multiple artists so if you are writing a
> 2.4 tag then there is no problem.
>
> Unfortunately in 2.3 I don't see any good way to escape it.  So you're
> gonna have to map it to something else (perhaps -?, e.g. AC-DC).
>
> However, I haven't seen much that actually undestands multiple artists
> (or multiple anything).
>
> The 800lb gorilla (iTunes) doesn't do anything for lists.  It treats
> any /s as part of the string and does no futher parsing.  I'm not sure
> what it does when it encounters a 2.4 list.
>
> 			-ben
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:40:25PM +0200, Daniel Önnerby wrote:
>   
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I just subscribed to this list because we're developing musikCube2 where we 
>> will support multiple genres and multiple artists.
>> We have run into a small problem regarding the "/" separated tags like TPE1 
>> (artists) and is wondering how to escape this character.
>> The group we are having some problems with is "AC/DC" that will split into 
>> 2 artists.
>> So, the question is simple: How do you escape the "/" separator according 
>> to the id3v2.x standard?
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>> Daniel
>>
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