Artists, especially units/groups, sometimes use symbols, including common separators in their names. This can lead to Symfonium separating their names when processing artist tags.
I’d request to have exceptions (full artist names, like “神様、僕は気づいてしまった” in the example below) to avoid separating artists’ names containing common separators.
Problem solved:
The first case I noticed was “神様、僕は気づいてしまった”, where “、” is the most common separator in Chinese and Japanese (Example from top jp music site mora, where they use “、” to separate the artists). As I added “、” in my separator list in Symfonium, they are separated as “神様” and “僕は気づいてしまった”.
I considered editing the tags and using other separators but later realized there might always be exceptions. Here are some examples:
、- 25時、ナイトコードで
/ - ON/OFF
, - Wake Up, Girls!
& - Blueberry&Yogurt
Brought benefits:
Allow users to import artist names with separators.
That’s why for example the default are " / " and not “/” same for " & ".
So you can often cover most cases by just editing the very rare exceptions, but if those site add a space after the separator then “、 ” as a separator will work.
The thing is that those sites will NEVER add whitespaces after “、”. It will be wrong and weird grammar-wise. And PLEASE don’t ask me to do so cause it’ll drive me crazy by making sth correct into sth wrong. It’s like asking English-speaking users to use “, (two spaces)” as a separator, and I’d assume you will not ask them to do so.
In Chinese and Japanese, we don’t use spaces to delimit words. Most of the time, whitespace is only used for indentation – or informally when people are too lazy to type symbols like “、，。”. That’s why word segmentation is a topic in Chinese/Japanese text analysis. Wikipedia has a little bit more on this.
I have probably hundreds of songs using “、” as a separator since it is the most common and correct one in my languages.
In addition, adding space does not solve cases like MYTH & ROID and Wake Up, Girls!. No matter what you use, there will always be exceptions!
Also add ", " as a separator please, coz i have thousand+ songs in my library and and all songs use ", " to separate multiple artists, so it’s imposible to edit all the songs from ", " to “/”
