Add support for colons as artist separators

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Currently when I import my artists to music they are all detected by any album with multiple artist is being detected as separate albums.

A user on reddit posted this thread showing the problem.

Please add support for multiple artists using this method so I don’t have to try and spend months fixing it. I have so many artists that even with something like Picard it would literally take months to do.

This is a very long standing request (10+ years), but Plex’s internal data structure does not support multiple Artists (or Album Artists) yet. It doesn’t matter how - neither with ‘proper’ multi-valued tags, nor with unofficial separators like semicolon, nor if the album is matched against Musicbrainz (which also returns multiple artists), there can only be one…

So there is no way to have multiple artists, at all no matter what I do?

What an absolutely terrible way to build a data structure. Multiple artist albums and tracks go back ages. How can you have a music service without support for such a basic feature?

Yes, it’s very disappointing. Bear in mind, iTunes/Apple Music also doesn’t support multiple artists, we’ve been waiting since 2001 for it.

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