I've been sorting out my music collection and entering some information via the "Set Metadata" dialogue box. Specifically, I've been trying to set the name AC/DC in the Artists: field. While the dialogue box will accept the name AC/DC , it won't write the information to disc; it is changed to AC; DC.
Although this isn't a major problem, is there away to get the correct name entered by maybe delimiting the "/" which seems to be the issue? If forward slashes can't/shouldn't be used should a message box come up and say so?
One thing I didn't think of at the time was using another Unicode character which looks the same as / although that could cause problems if the tags are to be read on devices with limited font or Unicode support.
Oh ok. Not to worry. Now I've realised that it does in fact get written to disc correctly I'm not concerned that it doesn't show up correctly in a hover over. And to be honest, I don't know why I didn't use the MP3Tag program to change it anyway instead of using DO.
There I have to bow to your superior knowledge on the subject. These are the default settings that MP3Tag uses. I have no idea what is what, other than it works just fine!
Sorry, I forgot to read the thread! I particularly like your comment "(There's probably some band out there with a space at the start or end of their name, just to mess with tagging software and OCD people. )"