Support multiple tag values according to vorbis comment specification for genre

Answered

Florian Graf

• February 26, 2023 06:24
• Edited

According to the official vorbis comment specifiction, a tag a.k.a. field name is NOT unique and can be added multiple times with different values, one of the most common examples being the tag "Genre", f.e.

GENRE=Indie Rock
GENRE=Post Punk

for one track.

See https://xiph.org/vorbis/doc/v-comment.html

"Field names are not required to be unique (occur once) within a comment header. As an example, assume a track was recorded by three well know artists; the following is permissible, and encouraged:

ARTIST=Dizzy Gillespie
ARTIST=Sonny Rollins
ARTIST=Sonny Stitt"

Bluesound indexing currently does NOT support this, which makes the genre view of the library nearly useless. If local library contains well curated genre information it is most likely NOT the case that an album only has one genre tag, but multiple ones.

Please fix this and make the genre filter working, so i can find release under ever genre filter it's value is tagged for.

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• Official comment

  

  Mark T.

  Sr. Support Crew Member

  • August 28, 2023 12:13

  Hi Florian,
  
  Not sure how we missed this but I've escalated your feedback to a support ticket. A member of our support team will reach out to you soon.
  
  Thanks for #LivingHiFi

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