Field values containing slash character are split

[lars-dreier]

Bug description
Could reproduce with genre and track artist fields.
If a field value contains a slash, without trailing spaces, the string is split.
Especially troublesome with track artists (e.g. "AC/DC")

Expected behavior
No value should be split by slash character

[Borewit]

Can you provide a sample file @AdmiralToast?

[lars-dreier]

Sure thing!

I also checked with flac (vorbis comment) file where it doesn't happen (i.e. everything is parsed as a single string).
But with Mp3 (ID3v2.3) I could see that the following fields get split:

• artist (artist field itself contains part before slash, artists array contains both parts as single elements in array)
• composer
• genre

I used some dummy sample file so I don't commit copyright infringement but the tags are set so you can easily reproduce.
sample2.mp3.zip

[Borewit]

Duplicate of issue #52
Another similar issue: beetbox/mediafile#21

The separation between artists decoded using '/' is in line with the specification: https://id3.org/id3v2.3.0#line-455

So "AC/DC" is an artist name you cannot specify without resulting in this kind of misinterpretations.

If you use the ID3v2.4 instead, you no longer have that constraint.

[lars-dreier]

Thanks for the reply, especially the specs :)