<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="problems-ogg-split">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#problems"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.2.0" date="2014-04-11" status="candidate"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.3.5" date="2015-03-26" status="candidate"/>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email its:translate="no">amigadave@amigadave.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <desc>Split a single tag field into multiple fields when you save Ogg and
    FLAC files</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Split tag fields when saving</title>

  <p>In Ogg and FLAC files, it is possible to have more than one
  <link xref="tag">tag field</link> of each type. For example, if two artists
  performed a song, there can be two artist fields in the tag, one for each
  artist. <app>EasyTAG</app> automatically reads the extra fields, combining
  them together and showing them as if they were a single field.</p>

  <p>Many applications do not read the multi-value field correctly, so the
  default configuration is to save using a single field per entry. If the
  application that you are using supports multiple field of one type, you can
  configure EasyTAG to split fields when you save the file. Fields will
  automatically be split whenever " - " occurs in the field. For example, in
  the field "David Bowie - Queen", two fields would be saved: "David Bowie" and
  "Queen".</p>

  <p>To split fields when you save the files:</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Select
      <guiseq style="menuitem"><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui></guiseq></p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select the <gui style="tab">Tags</gui> tab</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In <gui style="group">Splitting</gui> section, check the fields that
      you want to be split into multiple fields when saving</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

</page>
