Metadata fields separator
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Apologies if previously covered... Query relates to the separator for multiple entries in Tag metadata fields such as Composer. Having worked with quite a few media players over the years (long-time LMS [logitechmediaserver / Squeezebox] user), I had plumped for a semi-colon separator.
E.g. my 'composer' tag for "She Loves You" by The Beatles is "Lennon;McCartney" - Strawberry faithfully displays this as "Lennon;McCartney"! LMS (e.g.) displays it as "Lennon, McCartney" - the latter being what was intended, of course.
For me it's a bit lost in the mists of time (I did read an awful lot about the subject, yonks ago), but the argument is that a semicolon was chosen as one of the least likely characters to appear in artist / albumartist / composer, etc. tags. And, should thus be interpreted as a multi-item list separator metacharacter. Up to the developer, but should typically be replaced, for interface display purposes, as comma followed by one whitespace (, ).
Any thoughts, anyone? Had a trawl through strawberry.conf, and couldn't find a setting for a configurable metadata list separator character.