Re: how to handle multi value tags?

समीर सिंह Sameer Singh <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:07:19 +0530
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 4:45=E2=80=AFPM Erica Qi <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
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> I worry about a snowball of brittleness created be munging names together=
.
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> Editing, adding, displaying and searching would then be required to dynam=
ically create names as they try to access the data.  A search for multiple =
artists in a field would become a ugly thing.
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> What about turning those fields into a list of values when more than one =
value exists.  A simple test could detect them and do the right thing in ea=
ch scenario.

Yeah, this sounds reasonable. I will try doing this.

Thank You.

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> Editing, adding, displaying and searching could use their best mechanisms=
 accordingly without making up variable names everywhere on a record by rec=
ord basis.
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> Erica