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Vincent Kars:
If you use a field with multiple values e.g. Artist the tree view will display all individual values.
A nice option to find e.g. all work the artist is involved.



In this example the Artist field contains Gideon Kremer ; MArtha Argerich.
Correct this by editing Martha Argerich in the tree view.



Change MArtha into Martha



Say goodby to the multiple values in the Artist field.
The same happens if you use drag/drop in the tree view.

Now I understand why I lost a lot of information as I do use the tree view often to normalize my tags.

darichman:
I agree - I have found this to be a major problem for me. The same thing happens if you rename an artist from its pane entry too - all other artist entries in the list are removed. I would go as far as calling this a bug, and a potentially dangerous one, as it isn't clear the change has been made, and its not what one would expect from simply renaming an artist in a list.

Please consider revising list tag editing?

Vincent Kars:
It looks like they changed a couple of tags from single value to list style without adapting the interface.
I can only second the request to adapt the interface as the current one result in data loss.

gvanbrunt:
Yikes. Thanks for sharing this. It would have bit me at one time or another.

+1 to fix this. This is really borderline as a bug, but from a UI standpoint is pretty major.

Matt:
It's intentional that artist is a list field without a full-blown list editing UI.  This is a compromise to provide list functionality without the complexity of list editing.

However, I agree it's unexpected to lose the list on a rename of an existing value.  This will be changed in v18.

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