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Tylast | 3 years ago

Regarding the "Genre" tag, Apple Music make that problem 1000% worse as Apple Music does NOT allow multiple separate Genres per track. When selecting multiple Genres, it concatenates the names into a unique Genre thus defeating the purpose of trying to tag a track with multiple Genres. It is the only musics database that I've seen do this.

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janc_|3 years ago

Metadata tagging in the mp4 container format used by Apple is very rigid, and IIRC it doesn't support multiple fields with the same name, or multiple values within a field, so they can't really implement it.

(They could implement it for most other formats, of course, but that would make their own formats look bad...)

gvurrdon|3 years ago

This is indeed a total pain. I’d like to find some other means of handling music in Mac and iPhone to get around it.