Can anyone help me with “Best Practice” for Tag Separators….?

[ohrenkino]

@leeuniverse

since ALL seem to be being used.

Not all by a single player but all when you look at different players.
See e.g. this thread:

Should I use ";" or "\\" or "-" as a separator?

To date I have been using a ";" as a separator for the Artist, Composer and Genre fields. I would then do an action of merge duplicate fields for these fields after ripping a CD (or after a bunch of CD's). This displays well with the music players that I use currently but whether if or I may want to use another player in the future I am wondering if there is a better solution that is more universal?. Been thinking about whether it would of been best to use the "\" as a separator or even a …

BTW: not all players support a separator for all fields. E.g. WMP does not accept more than one entry in ALBUMARTIST and ALBUM (and probably YEAR).