# How to add multiple artist to the song **URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-multiple-artist-to-the-song/52901 **Category:** Support **Created:** [April 19, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-multiple-artist-to-the-song/52901 "2021-04-19T17:37:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino) #### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-multiple-artist-to-the-song/52901/2 "2021-04-19T17:45:22Z")
In Mp3tag you can create 2 fields of the same type, e.g. for the field ARTIST. But before you start any kind of splitting, you have to find out what the target player supports. See this thread to shed some light on the problem: > [@Should I use ";" or "\\\\" or "-" as a separator?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/should-i-use-or-or-as-a-separator/45708): > > 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 … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/how-to-add-multiple-artist-to-the-song/52901)._