# ; Changing to \\\\ without my concent
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 2, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458 "2015-01-02T02:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExiledLife)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458/1 "2015-01-02T02:30:11Z")
Something in Mp3tag is causing ; to change to \\.
I have tested using all the automatic actions and nothing causes this. This issue also does not happen to all my music. What happens is that it changes ; to \\ on the Artist and Album artist field as well as my custom Vocals field. In the Artist and Album Artist field it only changes ; to \\ but in the vocals field it changes, to give an example "Mei Ayakura; Tsubaki Ichimatsu" to "Mei Ayakura" completely removing the ; and anything after it.
I do not want Mp3tag changing my tags on its own. I do not know why but I did not ask it to do this. It only changes some albums but not all. I went through and changed all the \\ back to ; but recently found out that everything that I changed went back to \\ again.
This issue is driving me crazy and any help would be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@ExiledLife](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ExiledLife)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458/2 "2015-01-02T02:57:35Z")
After going back and forth between my media player, MusicBee, and Mp3tag trying to duplicate this issue. I figured out that MusicBee is causing an issue when for some reason it splits the fields when I never told it to. It looks to be some kind of bug with MusicBee.
EDIT: it looks like there is a bug in Mp3tagger. It is not showing the \\ as a field separator in the custom field I made %VOCALS%. However, it does show that there are two separate fields for Vocals.
[/t/16459/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16459/1)
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### Author:  [@LaurenBacall](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaurenBacall)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458/3 "2015-01-03T02:25:41Z")
Double backslashes ("\\") are Mp3Tag's method of displaying multiple values for a tag. The same file opened in say foobar2000 will display the identical tag separated with the semi-colon character (";"). I've never had an issue with Mp3Tag's handling of multi-value tags and the values have correctly displayed in all other music file readers I've used.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/changing-to-without-my-concent/16458/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:26Z")