How to add multiple metadata entries

I am ripping “Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, …” with XLD. It’s netadata panle looks liek thsi:

Now, I have read File Tag Best Practice and theer it ahows the following for metadata:

This clearly inducates to use mutiple same-keyed metadata fields for e.g. the ALbum atrist. SO in my case of the album “Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, …” I should enter:

ARTIST : Yehudi Menuhin
ARTIST : Stéphane Grappelli

instead of

ARTIST : Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli

But how can I do this in XLD when ripping? – Or do I need to do this later with another tool?

Many thanks for any pointers!

Some tags accept a list of values too, the ampersand is not a recognized value separator though.
See also:

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If I undeerstand Roon’s Help pages correctly, they clearly recommend to use seperate metadata entries like

ARTIST : Yehudi Menuhin
ARTIST : Stéphane Grappelli

So I guess I cannot do this with XLD? So I better use another tool after ripping (but before importing into Roon) to get the Metadat in the best shape for Roon, right?

Where do you get that impression from? Roon understands multiple entries in a single Artist tag provided you use the correct delimiter to separate the entries. As @BlackJack says, ‘&’ is not a recognised delimiter, the usual delimiter used is ‘;’ (a semicolon) - try that.

Quoting from the last paragraph of the section File Tag Delimiters | Import Settings:

Finally, note that it is nearly always better to simply put separate values in separate tags. A file with two ARTIST tags instead of Artist1; Artist2 will be more easily and unambiguously understood by virtually all software.

It’s referring to “other software”- not to Roon, which has no problems with understanding multiple entries in a single tag with the proper delimiters.

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I see. Good to know. :pray: